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Played a lot today, almost 5k hands 9 tabling. Absolutely killed the game, only had one stack off I wasn't proud of. Made a ton of value in really thin spots and kept barreling regs off hands. I'm considering just working on 200nl once or twice a week for development and just grinding 100nl for one more month to really juice my bankroll up that much more. Might be fun to try to win the 100nl monthly leader board on Pokertableratings.com as well. Also made the most out of anyone at 100nl today which was pretty cool.

Wanted to go for 20 but started getting a bit burnt at the end and ending up watching a friends final table. Pretty sure 17 buyins in a day is a new record for me, will have to shoot for 20 next Sunday.

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Played a decent amount of hours today. Non Sd was way down I was likely too sloppy on a few spots but I did bend a lot of people over today so it all worked out. 9 tabled at 21/16 for about 2k hands made almost 4 buyins at 100nl. Feeling very confident now in 3b pots and have been playing pretty cut throat in general.

I decided I'm going to give 6max a shot, most likely during the weekdays when FR sucks anyways. Really just getting too disheartening to see all regs at most 200nl tables FR while there are fish galore at 6max. Either way should also make me a better and more rounded player in general.

Posted a bunch of hands. Really only had one potential full stack spew although it was a strange situation at the time. Either way needed to dump the hand.

Got in 4 hours today, wish I had done a bit more because the field was so weak I just mauled everyone. I've cut way back on the drinking so my hours should be jumping back up to more acceptable levels. Also did some thinking as to why else I have dropped off a bit on playing. I decided that a lot of it was because 200nl is so nitty during the day that I never wanted to play; and when it was good I was going out so not much playing was done. The adderall Rx might be getting a bit low for my tolerance levels so I might up that next month as well.

Since I haven't been wanting to play 200nl during crappy times I decided to play more 100nl again. I'm also thinking I might want to use a 75 buyin rule from now on as I really just don't want to deal with variance. Probably going to just run over 100nl for a week or two while playing 200nl on weekends before I play more 200nl full time. I need to check out Full Tilt at some point as well, because Stars games are getting so crappy at times I need to branch out a bit.

Nothing really exciting in the hands dept. Might get some up next time.

Haven't updated in a long time, really have had far less questions on hands I've played which has just resulted in less updates. Still posting a decent amount of hands but not as much before. Summer is starting to close up so I'll likely start logging more hours again. I've haven't been playing a ton but I've been putting in a lot of time off of the table. I feel my understanding of the game has increased immensely over the last month alone. I've been playing all 200nl lately and have been super confident at all my tables. I've always worked my stats up to around 20/16 and average as high as 23/17 some nights.

A huge part of this is my increased understanding of 3b pots and really just hands vs regs in general. I've started 3barreling in some real good spots, making raises in others, and really have a good idea what's going on when I get 3b. I've also really opened up my 4b'ing range and am just raising up crap a lot against guys who play back at me too often.

I didn't make all that much close to my goal for last month, but I'll likely keep and plan on hitting the same one for this month. If I do make 50 buyins at 200nl this month I'll be playing 400nl+ next month for sure as I still want to push the limits as hard as possible and force myself to be better.

I'll also play a bit more live this month. I think I'm going to AC at some point and likely Foxwoods at the end of the month. I'll be playing 5/10 if possible both times for sure. I've always completely crushed the 2/5 game live and now that my game has took off I'm fully confident to play for bigger stakes.

Posting a few interesting hands over the last few weeks but nothing special in particular.