Long session on AP

For some reason, I felt like playing on Absolute Poker last night... so I did. The bad beat jackpot is pretty big now, something around 600k. I played a ton of hands, and had some huge swings. I played nearly 5k hands and finished up about $250, which doesn't seem that good... but considering I was down nearly $1.2k about 75% of the way through the session I'm happy with the result.

Here is the graph of my session:


I lost some pretty ridiculous hands, and I'll post a few of them here.

This one really sucked, I had the second nuts and we were 200 big blinds deep. Villain was 51/21 AF 5.4 over 40 hands. I don't think I can ever get away from this hand obviously... it's just so unlikely he flopped the nut flush at the same time I flopped the K high flush... he could easily have a lower flush or a set.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2885462

This hand blew as well, because once HUSTLNHARDER shoved I knew he had the nutz because he is a really solid player and kinda nitty. But with all that money in there, and the great chance that CM might tag along I actually had odds to call off my last $108 to try and boat up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2885463

This one I may have misplayed... I lost a lot on this one, and in hindsight, warning bells should have went off once CM called my re-raise of the shorty's shove. I don't know if I can check/fold the river or check/call or what. Maybe my play is fine since CM could have something like 99 or TT... I'm not sure about this one, and I think I'll post it on the Cardrunners forums tomorrow. Villain was 21/17 AF 3.5 over 400 hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2885467

Here is one good hand to finish it off. I think I played this one pretty well... I wasn't really that scared of a full house because he may have just shoved turn with a set. Instead, he just INSTA-called my turn raise, which led me to believe he didn't have a set (probably top pair).

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2885474


I had a few goals for this month that I had mentally set for myself. I didn't make a post about them, but I'll mention them now. First off, I wanted to move up to $2/4 NL after getting $20k in both my Stars and my Full Tilt accounts. I have accomplished half of that goal so far, as I have over $20k on FTP.

I have a long ways to go on Stars, however, since I've made a bunch of transfers off of there in the past month. I am at only $7.5k on Stars right now, but I have a $1.5k bonus that will clear within a week. So I'm approximately halfway there on Stars... I hope to make it to $20k on there by the end of the month.

That will give me 50 buyins on each major site for $2/4 NL so I should be able to play that limit comfortably and not worry too much if I have decently sized swings. Also, that will give me over 100 buyins total which in my opinion is the bare minimum bankroll for a professional poker player who is playing 6 MAX cash games.

I also set another minor goal for myself. I wanted to have $5k on each of my "fringe" sites (UB, Cake, and AP) before I moved up to $2/4 NL as well. This will give me a decent amount to donk around on those sites at $2/4 NL if I choose to. I have accomplished this goal as of tonight/ early morning. That gives me a total of about 140 buyins once I begin $2/4NL. So for now, I just have to focus on playing and winning on Stars so I can complete my primary goal.