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April seems to have been pretty bad to me, I’ve ran pretty horrible at the tables which has dented my confidence alot. I’ve ran about 10 buyins below ev at $100nl fullring and am on a 16 buyin downswing there so feel I need  a change for a while. I’ve decided to grind the $50nl 6max tables until I’ve rebuilt my bankroll and confidence, I might even try buying in for 50bb’s at the 20-50bb tables to help gain for vpps in my search for supernova.  Running bad this month has made me doubt my game and crushed my confidence abit which has in turn resulted in me not getting in as much volume as I’d have liked, hopefully May will turn out better.

Well lately I’ve been running really bad at the tables, over my last 10k hands or so I’m about $1000 below ev and have been getting coolered a tonne, I think I ran KK into AA 4 times this week and AA vs KK once and lost them all. As a result I’ve decided it’s probably best to move down to $50NL to both work on my game and gain some confidence back. I realise 10 buyin downswings are pretty standard and will happen several times a month if you play a lot but coming from the micro’s $1000 is a lot for me to take without questioning my play, even though holdem manager says I’m running way below ev. My winrate has now dropped from 6bb/100 to around half that which is still ok as my initial goal was to make 1bb/100 over the long run and I’m above that right now and my game can only improve from here.

In other news Pokerstars have finally released the long awaited changes to their ring game structure. Before the changes there were normal tables where you could buyin from 20-100bb’s and 50bb minimum where you could buyin for 50-100bb’s, a lot of players wanted a change because of the number of shortstackers (people buying in for 20bb) that made up the normal tables and the number of regulars that made up the 50bb minimum games, now there are 3 different game types, 20-50bb’s, 40-100bb’s and 100-250bb’s.  I’m a fullstack player so will be playing the 40-100bb tables for now, maybe jumping on the odd deep table once my game improves, hopefully these changes will improve the game quality and make it easier for me to play longer sessions.

I haven’t played much this week as it was my birthday on Tuesday and I’ve had some house decorating to do, now I’m free so should be hitting the tables and putting in the hours over the coming days.

Good luck at the tables guys, and girls (:

This month I’ve set my poker goals quite high, I’m going to try and play 150k hands with the majority of play at $100NL full ring. Over the past few months I’ve been working on my game quite a bit and although my game still has a lot of work needed I am managing to beat $100NL for a lot more than my original goal of 1bb/100,  right now I’m around 6bb/100 and I’m running around $400 below ev. 150k hands will prepare me for the upcoming months ahead when I’ll be aiming for closer to 250k hands per month, right now I think 150k is a good number to aim for, especially with the proposed ring game changes pokerstars may introduce in the middle of April as seen here.

Meanwhile I was invited to play a couple of low stakes tournaments this Sunday, I get invited to play them most weeks with usually around 8-9 other pro’s and this week I managed to win it. Some of you might now be aware but before online pro I pretty much never played multi table tournaments, I’ve always been a cash game player and in the past few years before I was made online pro I probably averaged 2-3 games per year, as a result this was my first mtt win on pokerstars, I was pretty happy with it.