Hi All
BR HITS ANOTHER NEW HIGH !
Just played what has become my regular now, 4 tabling FL FR 25C/50C. It's only a few dollars here and there, as I only play shortish sessions, but the BR is moving in the right direction still.
Previous highest BR (earned yesterday) = $180.96
Current BR = $185.91
FTP = 2314.32
All the best
Bryan
dont forget that you're also more popular and more attractive to the ladies now you're playing FL too!!
Good to see things going in the right direction, keep up the good work
Originally posted by AussieIan
dont forget that you're also more popular and more attractive to the ladies now you're playing FL too!!Good to see things going in the right direction, keep up the good work
+1 More important that BR IMO.
Hi All
thx guys (AussieIan and Waiboy for dropping by, giving words of encouragement.
If it hadn't been for your influence I would never have thought of playing FL really, as I have been weaned on NL. However, I am enjoying it, and so far it has been profitable. So, for the time being I am sticking with it. Playing at 25c/50c is a bit more manly too, which may account for the increased attention from women I am sure to be getting....lol
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Just had time for a very short session today, but one in which BR slightly up at the finish, to yet another new high. 4 table FL 25C/50C.
Previous highest BR = $185.91
Current BR = $187.41
FTP = 2319.72
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Frustrating session tonight. The usual crap happened of me getting rakeback, then losing it all again. I have lost count of the times I have received rakeback or bonus payments as a boost to my BR and immediately had a losing session that has wiped it out. Usually this happens after I have had several winning sessions too.
I played a longer session tonight, as I have been slipping lately on my startegy points, and in danger of losing my silver status. So tonight I settle in for a bit longer session. I have rakeback, and the highest BR i have had so far. In the early stages of the session I was doing great, and ahead on all tables. I was tempted to close the session with another boost to my BR. The main reason I carried on was the sp's.
Of course I then hit a losing streak and wiped out all the previous good work, and, despite recovering a bit towards the end, I ended up down overall.
I know we get advised here to not worry about results each session, but I can't help thinking that tonight I should have said sod the sp's and took the money and run early on. lol
Highest BR = $185.91
Current BR = $181.98
FTP = 2350.67
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Just played a dreadful session of FL where nothing went right on 3 of the 4 tables. Despite a profit on the 4th table, made a bad loss overall.
I have been warned that FL has got the worse variance of any form. I should have listened.
I know I can't let a couple of bad sessions sway me either way, and should probably persevere with it. However, I really can't be doing with setbacks to my BR like this whilst I am still trying to get off the bottom rung of the ladder as it were.
I'm too tired to think about it now, after a long day at work and now a long losing session.
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $167.73
FTP = 2398.62
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Decided to play for an hour in the daytime before work. Decided I would have another shot at FL, but unfortunately business was slow at the time I logged on, and was having to wait too long on waiting list.
So plumped for firing up 4 sng's, which I used to play regular. The crap continued as I was knocked out of 3 of them and placed 3rd in the other. I have to take some of the blame, as I don't think I have played my A game in either format. I think I have gotten out of the groove as it were from having a layoff of over a week whilst decorating.
You wouldn't think it would matter, but I feel that some of my old bad habits have crept in, which I must work on eradicating a.s.a.p.
I refer to playing too loose, and to not being able to let go when I know I am beaten. I am p-laying the hand I hope my opponent has rather than the one I know he almost surely has.
This hasn't been all the time, and much of the time I have played solid poker and had bad luck and bad beats, but it has been there and I have now publicly admitted it.
This session resulted in an overall loss, and I am not happy to see my BR sliding downwards - as it always does - at a much quicker rate than it ever moves upwards. Why does that always happen? Why does it take a fortnight to make $10 profit, and an hour to lose it ? lol
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $162.33
FTP = 2405.62
All the best
Bryan
Hi Bryan,
I've not read your blog for a while but am bored at work so decided to have a read. Still going well I see! You might not agree but the fact that your roll is actually increasing over time tells you whats what.
I can sympathise though, I am sat on a 300 sng break even stretch, my roll always increasing to around $130 and then dropping to $100, then back up, then down etc. It's annoying as hell!
I understand I have leaks though and I know that once i've filled those leaks my results will quickly improve. You have stated here that you have leaks... Get them filled and your BR will rocket i'm sure 
Have you checked your stats on sharkscope? It's worth doing. It puts things in to perspective when you see your results on a chart and compare that to others who have proven themselves!
Hi All
Thanks Wurble for dropping by, and interesting to hear someone else experiencing the same as myself at the same level. I will persevere mate. You are right to point out that my BR has risen over time, so I must be doing something right.
Your message of support was timely, as I have just played another frustrating session like the one I played the other night. FL again, and I was well up overall, decided to carry on playing and lost the lot with AA getting outdrawn etc etc
Ended the session slightly down overall, and feeling pissed off, until I read your message of support.
Highest BR = $187.91
Current BR = $162.13
FTP = 2427.82
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Further to my last post, just played an extra little session, and got myself into a position where I was a few dollars up. So I decided to quit the session whilst I was ahead, as it is getting late, plus the psychological boost of ending with my BR going in the right direction again.
Highest BR = $187.91
Current BR = $167.18
FTP = 2438.42
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Just finished a session of 4 tables FL and made a profit on the session again. So nice to follow on from last night back to winning ways again. This despite one incident where I lost a big pot to an opponent who called my max bets all the way to the river with A4 when he hit the 4 on the flop. Of course the river gave him another 4 to beat my QQ. I had to remind myself - after typing ffs into the chat box - that it's supposed to be fools like this that I will eventually make my money from. Am back above the $170 mark again, so am getting there. If only I can have a good run for a while....
Highest BR = $187.91
Current BR = $171.98
FTP = 2458.17
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
The bubble didn't take long to burst. Played the longest session I have played for a while, due to time constraints. Played for just over 2 hours. I did consistently well on one table, and not too bad on another, but on the other two tables, I just could not hit a thing. It's weird how it seems to happen like that. On one table I was in profit for the whole session. Even when I dropped a bit, I would pick up a good hand sooner or later and come back again.
On two of the tables nothing. If I got a playable hand I would be outdrawn, or miss the flop completely every time. If I called in case of a bluff, they always had it. It seems that playing FL at this level, most of the time people do have what they appear to have. So no point doing too much fancy play, just stick to the PS rules most of the time, more or less.
Have been trying to find more time to play a bit more, as progress is so slow, and the first time I do, I spend over two hours and manage to lose about 7 dollars. The best I can say I acheived tonight was earning some much needed strategy points.
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $164.88
FTP = 2541.72
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Played 4 tables for an hour and , amazingly, ended up exactly where I had started !! The only gain was some strategy points and some rakeback no doubt.
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $164.88
FTP = 2569.92
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
OK just played the worst session I can remember. I have had it with this fixed limit shit now. Sorry guys down under, I know you mean well, but I'm going back to proper poker.
Right on time as usual, as soon as I have received my rakeback, I lose it all and more besides. ok that has been happening from the word go, whatever style I am playing, but tonight was the limit (if you'll pardon the obvious pun). If I am doing well on most tables, I can just about put up with crap on one table, but getting crap on 4 tables is too much.
I admit I made some mistakes myself with middling hands, but even playing optimally with monster hands, I was getting called to the river and outdrawn every time, and I mean every time. I was losing money so fast I quit the session early before I lost my whole BR.
I don't care about strategy points now. If I go back to bronze, so be it. I am going to play proper BSS NL Poker or sng's.
Am so pissed off I am going back out to work in my taxi. At least I will make a profit taking the drunks home from the pub !!
BR now at lowest level for a while.
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $154.94
FTP = 2577.17
All the best
Bryan
Nice angst. Like it!
If nothing else, the suckouts you get playing BSS or NL SnGs will feel like a gentle summer breeze from here on in! 
Hi All
I've tried them all now. BSS, SNG'S and lost at all of them. I am just on a losing streak, and that's all there is to it. I am finding it difficult to believe this game is anything but luck at the moment.
It's been a long day, but at the moment I feel like taking a break from the game altogether. You can go on forever taking 2 steps forward and 1 back, then 1 forward and 3 back etc and getting knowhere.
I don't pretend to always get it right, but I am good enough to beat these low levels, and some of the really poor players out there, but there is just too much luck in the game.
The suckouts didn't feel like a gentle breeze Waiboy, mate, they felt like more of the same shit. I think in the last two sng's I just played, after getting sucked out of the first two, I pushed when I shouldn't have done. A fuck it what's the difference attitude leading to bad decisions.
I'll see how I feel after I've slept on it, but with BR down to $142.95, I have a long road ahead of me. How much time to do you waste ?
All the best
Bryan
Bryan
Hey Bryan,
I've been reading your blog for quite some time, but never commented, until now 
Nice read, congratz... I've been enjoying reading every post I just wanted to say that I'm in exactly the same situation where you are - I started playing the $1 SNGs in Full Tilt... went through them pretty quickly and then I played the $2 SNGs for like 2 months running break even all the time. Had a couple of OK finishes in MTTs which boosted my BR to around $180... then got a downswing in the SNGs and my BR went down to around $150 and stayed there for more than 2-3 weeks. I even had a few days in which no matter how many SNGs I was playing my BR ended up at exactly the same amount where it was when I started the session. I know we shouldn't go all about the monetary goals but this seems to be affecting our play (at least my). I tilted a bit because of the break-even run... and my BR went down to $130. I decided it's time for a change and now I'm learning to play Omaha Hi/Lo.
Anyways, what I wanted to say is that changing the games is probably a mistake caused by tilt and disappointment that we're "wasting our time" since the BR does not go up at all. We should probably keep trying with the SNGs and the upswing should come sooner or later. I just can't understand how the $2 SNGs are so more darn difficult than the $1s. I wish you a nice winning streak when ( ♦ ) you decide to get back to the SNGs and hopefully we'll catch up at $5s some day...
Good Luck!
Hi All
I've calmed down a bit now lol. Thanks for your post Letchlord, I really enjoyed reading it. I'm flattered that you take the time to read my blog regularly, and I wonder how many more people are doing the same, that haven't posted before. I know from recent posts that there are some, and through the number of hits recorded.
I like the smile when you said "when" I return. lol You know I wouldn't throw the towel in didn't you?
I came home last night from a night out drinking, and did exactly what you should not do. As it happens, I at least had the presence of mind to steer clear of my FT PS account. I did, however, play poker on my other account I have on Pokerstars, which incidentally, has gone downhill faster than my FT account recently, as I use it to do more "experimenting" with. Sometimes things go well, but haven't done lately, until last night that is.
As I say, I did what I shouldn't do. I played after alchohol, and I played outside my BR. I had < $100 in the account, yet entered a $10 sng. I found the opposition to be tougher and much more aggressive than my usual level, but that must have made me focus more intently and not take risks. Along with the inevitable bit of luck, I came 2nd, and was over the moon !
I came so close to blowing it at one point, when I got sucked out on, and went from being chip leader to a short stack in a huge pot. My first reaction, following recent results, was that this was more of the same crap. I could feel myself, along with the alchohol, about to do something stupid. Fortunately, I stopped myself, and bided my time patiently, and let the aggression of the table knock each other about, whilst I just shoved when the conditions were right. My patience paid off, and I got rewarded with 2nd place. I logged off at that point on a high, and feeling that I was back.
It doesn't take much to excite me does it ? lol.
All the best
Bryan
Hi All
Following on from last nights success (see last post) I returned to my FT PS account, with renewed confidence. Of course what I got was the same old shit.
Played 3 x $2 sng's and placed in one of them and went out on the bubble on every other one. The last one being a bullying big stack, whom I re-raised all-in, knowing my AJ to be well ahead of his range, and sure enough he called me with Q8o. Naturally he hit his 8 and eliminated me on yet another bubble.
I am calm. I am taking deep breaths. It is part of the game, and I just have to keep playing well. All will be good in the long run right?
Highest BR = $187.41
Current BR = $137.55
FTP = 2596.90
All the best
Bryan
