Mother Shipton's Diary

So how did that go for you then?? OOOOOooooooo – I feel a bit sheepish.

No real need to post a graph here – I’m sure you can all imagine what a
-$70 line over 500 hands looks like! But I will make a few observations on
my first session

• Huge difference in amount of limping and limp arounds. I don’t think there were more than 10 hands in the whole session with more than one limper ahead of me.

• Many more cases where the hand folded round to the button or SB. Really increases the opportunities to open steal.

• 3 betting much more prevalent, as is 4 betting. Generally I didn’t encounter any significant calling of a 3 bet raise out of position. This is worrying – that was a main source of income from 10NL fish. More 3 betting after the flop – less calling of c bets.

I have to try hard here not to berate myself to much. Just listening to
the first in the Eightfold Path to Poker enlightenment series and mustn’t
slip into “wrong think”. I guess there’s no way of knowing whether a $70
drop in my first 25NL session is down to…

• a few bad hands on my part (I’m going to post a few hands in the forum to get some other perspectives)

• me being well out of my league, or

• natural variance – after all, I’ve had 3BI drops in a session at 10NL as well.

So my BR is now down at $442 (picked up $10 for my first Stellar award on
PS – Woo Hoo!). But I’m going to stay at 25NL and only drop back to 10NL
if I go to $400. I have to eliminate the possibility that the first
session was down to variance or a few badly played hands.

I’ve got to admit that this was probably a timely kicking to get. Moving
up through 5NL and 10NL seemed all a bit easy. A spank of the bottom from
the poker gods for being overly cocky never did anyone any harm in the long
run!