Ugh, for the amount of time I spend on the computer, its pretty sad how technologically stunted I am. I played my first real cash session in a while for the first time today, and hopefully the results will appear below (it took me ages to figure out how to get this image cropped and transferred and shit on my Mac)
Although I'm technically rolled to play higher, I want to play it safe and start small and grind at the low stakes for a while. I'm starting off at .25/.50 NL on Stars, and will probably reevaluate the situation after about 20,000 hands or so. If it looks like I'm maintaining a decent winrate and solid stats, I'll then decide whether or not I'm ready to move up.
Anyway, today's session went well - played a little over 700 hands (on 3 tables) and won a little over 4 buy ins. The competition at this level is very soft, and isn't very good at adjusting to my loose-aggressive style. Once they realize how much more aggressive I am than the average player at this level, they try to "play back" at me by doing exactly what I want them to do - opening up their preflop calling range (usually out of position) and calling down as opposed to repopping me, which allows me even more room to outplay them. The few times I was legitimately pushed back were so few and far between, that overall my style was very profitable, and I was able to take down a ton of little pots without a showdown. Granted, a VPIP of 23 and PFR% at 15 isnt exactly maniacal, but at this level, with limp/calling being the predominant preflop strategy, I definitely seemed like the bully at my table.
Eventually I'll be able to post some hands, but cracking two computer related tasks in one day is far too daunting, so I think I'll retire for the evening and enjoy a glass of some nice (shitty) Bordeaux. Oh, and I woke up from my post-work nap at about 9pm, so I'll likely be up til like 8 am again, thus starting another phase of not seeing daylight of days hah. Later.
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