1,467 hands, +$45.65

Meh. It's been a profitable day, but overall a somewhat disappointing session. One of the first hands I played today, I got AA all-in preflop and lost to AKo. There were a few other suckouts, and perhaps a few hands I lost that I should have gotten away from. But I feel like I played pretty solid overall, though I think I may need to make some adjustments.

Strangely enough, it seems that there are alot more stations at 50NL. Well actually, I've yet to determine whether they're floaters or stations. I seem to recall moving to a new game and thinking that everyone had suddenly gotten trickier and were exploiting my tendency to c-bet everything, before realizing they were just a bunch of dumb call stations. I suspect that this may be the case here.

I'm still not very comfortable c-betting, especially at 6-max and especially when I'm constantly getting looked up. I keep going in circles. At first I was a supernit, basically playing my FR game short-handed. Then I opened up a bit and started raising alot more hands (PPs in any position; K9s+, Axs, etc. in MP; and all kinds of crap in LP). Now at 50NL, it seems that my preflop aggression and subsequent continuations are a huge leak.

Then again, this could just be a recurring concept that I struggle with and I'm just getting frustrated over a small sample. One of the most difficult adjustments I've had to make for 6-max has been raising preflop with a wider range. For some reason, I feel like it's my god-given right to win the majority of pots that I enter. I just HATE raising a hand preflop and missing. I hate it even more when I fire a bet and get called. I really really hate it when this happens over and over again, and it makes me wonder why I'm raising anything but JJ+ in the first place. When I get into these funks it makes me cringe when I'm dealt AQs UTG. I know I'm probably not going to hit the flop and that there's a good chance that my c-bet isn't going to win me the pot, so why don't I just fold?

This is obviously something I really need to work on, and until I get more confident in my postflop game I'm going to tighten up. This might actually be closer to optimal since most tables I play are very loose. Maybe I'm not supposed to be playing this aggressively in the first place. Or, perhaps I should just play closer attention to my opponents and determine who I should and should not be c-betting against.

After rereading those last few paragraphs, I sound clueless and panicky (lol). I don't think I'll make too drastic of a change. I'm just going tone down the aggression a bit and mostly just wait for big hands. In the meantime I'll reread some stuff on c-betting and SH aggression. I think I'll save myself some headaches and perhaps some money if I don't contest so many small to medium sized pots with weak hands.

Bankroll: $1,279.36