Alright so I finished up a 1000+ hand session yesterday (3 mini sessions of 1 hour each) and ended up about 1/2BI, which is a nice win of course but the best part about it was that I was 4-tabling the whole time. Was surprised how it was actually easier than 2 tabling because you had to focus the whole time, whereas your mind tends to wander a bit more when doing only half the number of tables. Probably should have finished upwards of a BI but of course I had 3 or 4 costly mistakes that kept me from killing the session. Here are my stats:



As you can see, I tightened up a bit compared to what I have been doing usually although my AF is still a little on the high side at 4.4. Oh well, small sample size but probably is still telling me that I should take it easy a bit more, still chasing sometimes or trying to push people off decent or made hands.

Before I get into hands that I wasn't happy with, just wanted to state some goals for April. I don't think I'll be able to hit 10 000 hands like I planned for the end of March (currently around 7 500), but I do have some challenging, ableit attainable goals for next month. Here they are:

1) Play 12 000 hands ( with a secondary goal of 15 000 hands)
2)Achieve Bronze Ironman status (15 days of 100 points or 20 days of 50 points). Thought having a pot at the end of the rainbow to chase would be good motivation.
3) Really focus on playing TAG, meaning staying around 16/14/3 for the month.
4) Have my first profitable month?

These goals are all realistic and I should be able to meet or beat all of them. I threw in the ironman challenge just to have a bonus to look forward to, almost like a badge to show off. Good motivation I figure. I really believe that April can be a profitable month (I'll take +$0.01) and with the $80-$100 in bonus that I can unlock, I'm pretty sure it can be. I'll be looking to post every 1000-2000 hands to keep everything up to date and review my mistakes. Wish me luck.

There were a couple hands that killed me, mostly of stupidity but of course I'll share them and provide some commentary.

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Seat 1: Brandt1 ($6.25)
Seat 2: GottaPayTheBill ($13) -
Seat 3: Smegmadrol ($10.05) -
Seat 4: headson ($5.20) -
Seat 5: mack87 ($10.75)
Seat 6: chrisdaphish ($4.15)


PRE-FLOP:

Smegmadrol posts small blind $0.05
headson posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: mack87


RAISE mack87 ($0.45)
FOLD chrisdaphish
CALL Brandt1 ($0.45)
FOLD GottaPayTheBill
FOLD Smegmadrol
FOLD headson


FLOP:

Pot: $1.05


BET mack87 ($0.80)
CALL Brandt1 ($0.80)


TURN:

Pot: $2.65


BET mack87 ($1.80)
CALL Brandt1 ($1.80)


RIVER:

Pot: $6.25


BET mack87 ($3)
RAISE Brandt1 ($3.20)
CALL mack87 ($0.20)


SHOWDOWN:
Brandt1:

MUCK mack87

Brandt1 collected $11.4 from main pot with a straight, Five high

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $12 Rake: $1.25

Final Board:




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I swear sets have lost me so much money, I always seem to flop them on ugly ugly boards. The 345 flop of course doesn't really fall into any dangerous territory other than the set over set (unlikely the way he played it) or the straight draw. I put this guy either on two pair (20%), overpair 66-JJ (30%), and overcards (50%). My biggest mistake here was on the river when the 2 came. Probably should have checked behind here as I don't think I'm folding many hands, of course hindsight is 20/20, but a c/f was probably in order as a guy with any Ax hand had me beat.

I think other than that one hand above, it was a pretty straightforward session with the majority of my smaller losses coming from c-betting one too many streets and a cooler (guy flops a bigger boat on the river after getting it all in with 2P). Should finish this month off with roughly 8 500-9 000 hands in the book and looking forward to next month.