Poker, Business, Sports, Girls, Life: April Update

Hey All, so far April has been a down month after roughly 8 000 hands, but I'm confident I can become profitable in the last 3 weeks so it's all good. Over the last 3 000 hands it has been pretty swingy, having a +1BI session, then a +2.5BI session, followed by a -3.5BI session, and then last capping it off with a +.5BI session. Not horrible of course and I think I still have to work on my long-term approach required for playing poker successfully. I still focus too much on the sessions that I lose a BI or two from and not on the fact that I'm looking to be profitable for the MONTH, not the SESSION. I'll be ordering the book "A Poker Mindset" this month, should help in reshaping my thought process somewhat.

There has been good news though this month so I'll bring those up right now. First off, I came in 3rd in a 70 person MTT, netting a 6BI win (shwing) so that felt good obviously, although I definitely had a solid chance of finishing first after having the chip lead but losing 3/4 of my stack KK > ATs. Ah well, I'll take what I get obviously.

Secondly, I applied for coaching position with the U of M this summer and I received the email this week saying I was accepted for it, meaning I get weekends off and get to shoot hoops all day. Now the only thing to do is to give my notice to BMO for the summer, ugh not looking forward to that.

Lastly, my BR is now finally back above my initial deposit of $400, finishing at $415 last night with the help of a winning session and unlocking a bonus. Hopefully I can get up to 25NL by May 1st, but if not, I won't mind sticking around 10NL for another few weeks to work out some more kinks in my game. However, I do believe that 25NL in May will be my most likely route I'll be taking.

Here are my stats so far for April, pretty solid I believe, but I'm still making the occasional costly mistake, probably responsible for -4BI, but I've also lost my fair number of coolers which I'm not really used to yet and they were tilting me there for a while.

Here's a hand which I'm not happy about. This guy was playing all over the place during my session with him, he flats my 3bet pf, making me believe he has AK, or QQ-TT, potentially ATs kind of thing. He c-bets the dry flop and I'm willing to pay off some random set so I shove because I figure I have 95% of his range beat here, any overpair would call my shove, and that AA was unlikely. I think either way we'd be getting it in on the board if not on the flop then on the turn or river so I think my play was fine here, just sucked that he had AA.

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Seat 1: FineByFar ($11.40) -

Seat 2: BiotchesFull ($14.35) -

Seat 3: TMacClemson ($9.95) -

Seat 4: TheAbhorsen ($12.65)
Seat 5: kfed5672 ($14.70)
Seat 6: mack87 ($13.40)

PRE-FLOP:

BiotchesFull posts small blind $0.05
TMacClemson posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: mack87

FOLD TheAbhorsen
CALL kfed5672 ($0.10)
RAISE mack87 ($0.45)
FOLD FineByFar
FOLD BiotchesFull
FOLD TMacClemson
RAISE kfed5672 ($0.80)
RAISE mack87 ($2)
CALL kfed5672 ($1.20)

FLOP:

Pot: $4.15