Two interesting things happened lately. One is I downloaded Holdem Manager and got the HUD working. I have absolutely no idea what the stats mean right now but I'll look at that over the next few days. I mostly wanted to start logging my hand histories as soon as I could.

The other thing is my playing seems to have improved and some things have finally 'clicked'. I'm getting better at reading peoples hands based on what they went in with previously and their betting patterns on all the streets. I read a lot about value betting and I've started to c-bet sometimes which has won me the pot sometimes when I've flopped air but held position.

I've really been enoying playing the last couple of days, of course winning might be the key to that but I feel at least now I'm playing with some level of intelligence, even if it is only 1 rung off the bottom of the ladder.