Good start to September

I played 3,737 hands today on Stars at $2/4 NL 6 Max and finished up about $4.4k. Another solid session. I am feeling really good about my game now, it feels like I am in complete control of almost everything that occurs at the table. I think I'm ready to progress and rapidly move up the levels in the next couple of months, if things continue as they are.

Here's the stats from the session (I'm really proud of my W$WSF stat here):




I think the reason I seem to be doing so well at $2/4 NL is because I stayed at $1/2 NL for an extra long time, even when I was way over-rolled for it. I stayed there because I still felt I had major postflop leaks... so I took some lessons, practiced a bunch, and refined my game at 200NL. I don't feel like I make many huge errors that often anymore, and this is obviously helping me win.

On a side note, I sat for the first time in a $10/20 NL 6 Max game for about 20 hands... one of my fish at a 400NL table moved up in stakes, but once he got up higher his game tightened up so I just left.

Empiremaker2, who is a Cardrunners member and has made a vid or two for them was at the table. He's a huge douchebag though and if you have ever read his blog you will know exactly what I mean. I've been waiting a few years to finally take a pot off him... he's probably one of the most cocky, worthless person I'm aware of ... can't really explain much more, just go to CR and read his blog, he's ridiculous. Here's the hand against him (nothing too fancy, lol):

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3133617


I only got stacked 3 times total in this session, which is a big improvement over last session... where I got felted multiple times. One of the times I got felted was in a CO vs SB war vs a reg and his AK was > than my QQ. Also lost another flip, I was btn and 5-bet shoved JJ and lost to the CO's AK.

This hand I lost, it's debatable of whether I played it well or not. Looking back on it I think I should have bet smaller on the river, then folded to a raise. Problem was, when I was playing the hand I just couldn't think of any logical hand that beat me, because I thought he would raise a set on that wet of a flop... I guess I didn't really even consider that he may have turned a set. I posted this hand on the Cardrunners forums so I'll get some other players' advice on the hand.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3133634


Here's one of my biggest winners for the session... basically a gift from DC, not sure wtf he was doing, but I suppose he put me on "AK" just like every other donk does when there is a 3-bet or 4-bet pre-flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3133638


So I'm actually only up $2.7k so far for September, because I lost a bit towards the end of my session in the early AM hours of Monday which I didn't count towards August because since it was past midnight it was technically already September.

One of my best poker friends, Ryan, predicted that I would have a breakthrough month in September. He suspected that I might hit the $30k mark, which I really hope I can do because that would be ultra-cool to be able to bank that much $$$ in one month. We'll see if he's right, and I'll do my best to make his prediction come true.