Well it is one nasty night here. The first real snow storm of the year, so since I couldn’t leave the house I decided to play some of the poker, again on PokerStars.

I played three table sessions in all, so the sessions that I mention in the titles of these threads are really my sit-downs at the computer to play.

The first two sessions I played went alright. I lost some, in one and ran really bad at the end of one.

The first session I played about 116 hands and lost about 10.5BB. This is the session that I had two really bad hands near the end that put me on tilt. One was my KK versus AA on a completely raggedy board and the other was someone calling all raises pre flop, flop turn and river when I had flopped the nut straight and s/he had runner-runner flush.

Anyway my second session ended a bit better, I had made a couple of major mistakes and was down to 3BB when I started at 20BB, but made it back so that my net was only negative 1.5BB when I finished after 104 hands.

FOr my final session of the evening. After taking a break to charge my phone, call the ‘rents and do some dishes I played another short session while waiting for a good show to come on TV. In this session I played 40 hands and came away with 10BB in the black.

So over all today was a loss, but only about 2BB

What I learned is that I really have to keep the number of hands that I play down, pre-ferably at 25% when I am playing full ring. A lot of people may think that is too tight, but at the low limits that I am playing, when you do hit a hand you WILL get paid off.

Here is a plot of how I did.

It is made with PokerGrapher, which is an addon that you can get for PokerTracker. Both great investments if you are looking to find holes in your game, or if you are simply a stats junkie
So now I think that I am going to go off and before I hit the hay, do some reading in Super System 2 and see what Jennifer Harmonhas to say about getting me better results at Limit holdem.

Session one was a short-handed game of .25/.50 limit on PokerStars. And it went badly. I broke one of my rules, I was tired and not all there mentally. Sure I was watching the game, I picked a table that I thought would be alright, but after about 3 rounds my VP$IP was 10%, thats right in 18 hands I played 2 and both those were when I was in the small blind with no raise.

So when I got J10s on the button I thought that it was a sweet hand. So I called….then the BB raised and me, well I closed out the betting. Then the flop, J-10-x rainbow. Not bad, I figured I could play it cool and just called the BB. Then the card of death Q…..

BB checked-raised and I called and then on the river there was a blank, and he check raised again.. I called and he flipped AK….DAMN!

That simply put me on tilt, I was down to 25% of my buy-in and after 20odd hands called it quits.

I think that if I was sharper I probably would have folded on the turn, and saved myself 3BB.

Now I just hope that this is not me going on tilt full time, and the next time I sit down to play I will be sure to be relaxed