April Recap!

April turned out to be a pretty solid month. I ran very well at NL100 (making up for last month). Here is the graph. One of the huge spikes later in the month was when I played a guy heads up and he shipped like $300 to me in 3 hands.



$1432 in profit over about 25k hands. I ran about $650 over expectation this month which I definitely won't complain about. Here is my year to date graph... and you can see that now for the year my EV line, and my profit line are almost at the same spot.



The problem this month was that I was really lazy when it came to putting in cash sessions. I would rather just play a tournament or 90man sng while watching TV, than to sit down and actually grind 12 tables. I really should be putting in 35k+ hands fairly easily. This month I am going to try to do better. Also, while I was really bored I would check out really soft short handed 1/2 tables. I played a guy HU, and played some 5handed tables. Altogether I played 70 hands on 1/2 tables and won $619 which is a super heater. I was winning every race and ran way above EV. So on the month my total profit for cash games was just about $2050.

This month tournaments sucked for the most part. In the middle of the month I started playing too many tournaments and definitely didn't play my best. I started getting my groove back towards the end of the month and made some decent runs. Still gotta clean up some mistakes in the late game, but I am going into May with renewed confidence in my tournament game. At one point I was down over 1k in tournaments on the month, not even the 26/90s could bail me out. I played 46 26/90s in April, and only cashed in 4 of them which is running way under EV imo. I shipped the 26$ pot limit turbo event just in time to save the month. I pulled off a profit of $173 for the month. Still looking for a big cash, hopefully I'll play better more consistently in May to give myself more shots.


All together it turned out to be a solid month profit-wise. $2050 on cash games. $173 on tournaments. Plus $367 rakeback. Total profit for the month was $2590. Much better than last month and I feel like I'm still evolving as a player.

I need to play more hands in May. FTOPS and miniFTOPS is happening soon, so I am going to try to play in a few events when I can. I graduate in two weeks, so I am going to be busy with school/ senior activities/ just trying to spend time with friends before we graduate. When it comes to tournaments I just need to not overload myself this month to the point where I don't put enough effort into them. Be nice to hit a big cash, but I can't complain about the consistent cash I get from NL100 when I'm running decent.

If the first day of May was any indicator... I won $170 in my first cash session. Then played in 4 tournaments, and three 26/90s. Took 9th and 1st in two of the 26/90s which was a nice way to start the month. Got donked in two of the tournaments. Min cashed the 50k, and went out near the bubble in the 28k. A solid start to the month.

-Boooom