I finally decided to start a blog where I could keep track of my progress and get some feeedback.

I began playing in April 08 with a free bankroll program on Titan, ranked well in a hand race, cleared some bonuses, take a shot at NL20 while underrolled, experienced a huge upswing followed by a bigger downswing, then stumbled upon this forum. Since then I've stuck to BR management rules, and started visiting the forums daily.

Last week I won a small MTT for 300$ which put my BR at NL20 levels, and so decided to move up. Bankroll is now at 600$, enough to ride out the inevitable variance.

Today started slow, it seemed as all the nits flopped sets against me, I got kings cracked by a set that I paid off since I was shortstacked, then got aces cracked by quad jacks with KJ. Bad session.
The evenings session was more interesting, I noticed that there were some apparently drunk players in two of the tables (I 4-table FR), and so decided to close the other ones and concentrate on trying to exploit those.
I played three hands for stacks, won two of them and lost the last one.

$0.1/$0.2 No Limit Holdem
7 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG AresV ($31.91)
UTG+1 SharonValerii ($3.70)
MP DxTr9 ($4.00)
CO aidey ($20.68)
BTN TTR68652252 ($3.70)
SB gosam770 ($20.49)
BB Hedg ($20.69)

Pre-flop: ($0.30, 7 players)
3 folds, aidey calls $0.20, 1 fold, gosam770 calls $0.10, Hedg checks

Flop: ($0.60, 3 players)
gosam770 checks, Hedg bets $0.20, aidey raises to $1.20, gosam770 calls $1.20, Hedg calls $1

Turn: ($4.20, 3 players)
gosam770 checks, Hedg checks, aidey bets $1.40, gosam770 calls $1.40, Hedg calls $1.40

River: ($8.40, 3 players)
gosam770 checks, Hedg bets $0.20, aidey raises to $5.40, gosam770 goes all-in $17.69, Hedg folds, aidey calls $12.29

Final Pot: $42.98
aidey shows:
gosam770 shows:

gosam770 wins $42.98 ( won +$22.49 )
Hedg lost -$3.00
aidey lost -$20.49


$0.1/$0.2 No Limit Holdem
10 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG Macaupj ($21.07)
UTG+1 baronesari ($21.12)
UTG+2 phoneoperator ($11.80)
MP1 Jocantaro ($39.75)
MP2 moltisanti87 ($60.07)
MP3 gosam770 ($19.40)
CO busybusy ($3.90)
BTN imawinnababy ($20.38)
SB AllInphokit ($12.02)
BB Puejzmp ($32.62)

Pre-flop: ($0.30, 10 players)
1 fold, baronesari raises to $0.40, 2 folds, moltisanti87 calls $0.40, gosam770 calls $0.40, 4 folds

Flop: ($1.50, 3 players)
baronesari bets $1.80, 1 fold, gosam770 calls $1.80

Turn: ($5.10, 2 players)
baronesari bets $5.10, gosam770 goes all-in $17.20, baronesari calls $12.10

River: ($39.50, 2 players)

Final Pot: $38.50
baronesari shows:
gosam770 shows:

gosam770 wins $38.50 ( won +$19.10 )
baronesari lost -$19.40
moltisanti87 lost -$0.40


$0.1/$0.2 No Limit Holdem
8 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG baronesari ($21.81)
UTG+1 phoneoperator ($21.18)
MP1 DxTr9 ($4.00)
MP2 moltisanti87 ($57.72)
CO gosam770 ($46.15)
BTN busybusy ($22.79)
SB AresV ($21.46)
BB AJL5 ($20.00)

Pre-flop: ($0.30, 8 players)
baronesari raises to $0.40, 3 folds, gosam770 calls $0.40, 1 fold, AresV calls $0.30, 1 fold

Flop: ($1.40, 3 players)
AresV checks, baronesari bets $1.40, gosam770 raises to $5.40, AresV folds, baronesari calls $4

Turn: ($12.20, 2 players)
baronesari checks, gosam770 bets $6.20, baronesari goes all-in $16.01, gosam770 calls $9.81

River: ($44.22, 2 players)

Final Pot: $43.22
baronesari shows:
gosam770 shows:

baronesari wins $43.22 ( won +$21.41 )
gosam770 lost -$21.81
AresV lost -$0.40


Losing that last pot turned a great session into a break-even day. Oh well.

Off to sleep.