Tonight I had my first good session. I've played now for 6 weeks or so, and been up, then down, up, then down. I've had a few bad sessions, due to my bad play and bad beats combined, and won some back here and there, and managed to stay slightly in front, but tonight the cards just kicked arse. The AK's flopped me 2 pair, the flush draws filled out, one big pot to a gutshot straight because pot odds gave me the go ahead. I got FH with rubbish on a limped BB twice!! I reckon there were people cursing me. And I seemed to get players willing to call me. Even raise when I had the nuts. I guess sometimes it just goes that way.
One bad table early in the session, and a good lesson. I was on a table with a MANIAC on a lucky streak. In the end, he infected everyone, because madness seemed to set in, people wanted to beat him, but his crap kept coming good. I played only my good hands, but stayed in too long sometimes, and lost one big hand to a river flush, and my objectivity was shot. I am from now on going to leave any table where I see that happening, and I am going to leave it early. It cannot be beaten, but it can hurt. It cost me 20BB, but still left my session even at that point, because of a couple of other tables. In the end, I played 400 hands (3 tables) in less than two hours, and finished 56 BB in front.
I've now looked at Bankroll Management, because I thought that I could go up a level. The text regarding micro levels says lower levels can be approached more aggressively, and advances can be made if you have 200 BB, up to .25/.50. Once you hit the next level you need 350 BB. When I first read the article, it spelled out that once $65 was reached, advance to .15/.30 was approved, which is slightly more than 200 BB, but understandable. The table on the last page has been changed since then, and now it says that only go to that level with $90, which is 300 BB. This contradicts what is on the page before. Maybe someone can look at this, and give some clarification?
And don't worry, I don't expect that I will have sessions like this every other day. But I don't mind if I get one here and there.
