Graduation to 25NL and first $100 day

The title sums it up. I felt like I was playing scared at 10NL while being bankrolled for 25NL so I made the jump yesterday and played 400 hands, finishing up a BI to start the new stakes. I grinded out 3 hours this morning and did even better, finished up 4.6BI over 1200 hands and winning a $100 pot (flippin' huge yo!). Not going to bother posting stats other then to say that I played 18/15/4 and winning 71% of my showdowns. In addition to the win, I also unlocked another $20 bonus so my two days winnings over 1600 hands is around $160. Nuts yo.

Here are some hands from today:

Hand 1
This was an interesting hand as at this table I was playing pretty donkishly, but only against a half-stacker who shoved any pair or ace hand. Against the shorty I called his shoves with AKos and AJos, winning once, but also showing the table I have a pretty wide shoving range. Villain here was playing super tight so after his 4 bet I put him on AA, KK, QQ, or AK and I figured he'd be shoving all those with whatever I did. So instead of doing a customer 5bet to say around $14, I just shoved to look donkish. It worked well this time obviously but I would not do this play often.

Hand 2
This was a weird hand that I think the villain played horribly. After the river hits that completes the flush and straight draws I didn't really have any other option but to shove as I wasn't going to fold with only 1/3BI left behind. I really couldn't believe it when calls with 99...ty I guess.

Hand 3
With so many outs, it was a dream flop for me with the second nut flush, two overs, and straight draw. I bet strong against the villain and make sure to get in before the turn. I hit one of my many outs on the turn and shipped the chiplets over my way.

Hand 4
After missing so many of PP hands on the flop, I finally hit one here. I automatically put this guy on a K with such a dry flop and I try to rep a K as well. It was great that the ten hit on the river and he insta-shoves with the two pair. Lovely.

Hand 5
This was the big loss of the day against the half-stacker mentioned above. I played this fine and glad that I got it in preflop vs him as chances are I'd just be shoving on the flop anyways. He had jacks on this one, good for him, I took his money later anyways. Snap.

Next post will be on Wednesday, the last day of the month, with a summary of my play and goals for May. GL at the tables.

S