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I quit poker a while back because it started being only about the money and playing the game wasn't fun anymore. Gave it another try 2 months ago and have been enjoying it again since. I only play when I really feel like it and try to focus as much as possible on the fun of playing my best possible poker and as little as possible on the results. Since I mostly play 2-6 tables this means I get in very little hands, but I'm focusing on improving and having fun over making the most money possible for now.

Obviously I have to be running good because I doubt 30bb/100 (NL25) and 20bb/100 (NL50) is my normal winrate, but I think I'm playing far better poker than I've ever played before and many players at those stakes are still ridiculously bad. The NL50 stats are skewed because half is HU.

Just wanted to post this to document how I'm doing (and maybe it'll interest someone ). I'll stay at NL50 for a while (probably until I'm up another ~1k) and then take a shot at NL100. gl guys~

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that I can never just run normally, I always have to be on a sick downswing or a ridiculous heater.

... luckily it's heater time atm

I guess I should have just mucked this PF, right? Managed to luck my way out.

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***** Hand History for Game 25971089254 *****
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Saturday, March 14, 10:09:14 ET 2009
Table Cruithne VII Real Money
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Hero $100.00 USD
Seat 2: muscM3 $100.00 USD
Seat 3: td_rahnra3 $66.05 USD
Seat 4: Saxonblue $180.95 USD
Seat 5: stasia42 $100.00 USD
Seat 6: Nevr_Played $212.05 USD
Hero posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
muscM3 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].

Holecards
Dealt to Hero
td_rahnra3 folds
Saxonblue raises [$4.00 USD]
stasia42 folds
Nevr_Played folds
Hero raises [$11.50 USD]
muscM3 raises [$36.00 USD]
Saxonblue calls [$33.00 USD]
Hero calls [$25.00 USD]

Flop (Pot : $109.50)

   
Hero checks
muscM3 bets [$63.00 USD]
Saxonblue calls [$63.00 USD]
Hero calls [$63.00 USD]

Turn (Pot : $298.50)

   

River (Pot : $298.50)

   
Hero shows
Hero wins $297.00 USD from main pot
muscM3 doesn't show
Saxonblue doesn't show

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Sort of, at least.

I didn't play a lot of hands in February, mostly because I had an epileptic seizure (my second) early in the month and I wasn't really up to doing a lot of thinking for most of the month.

Last month ended with me taking a shot at NL100, hitting a horrible downswing, being too stupid to move down and going from 2.3k to 700 in 3 days.

I decideded to switch to HU for a bit because I was getting bored with 6-max, here are my results for the month:







I'm running at 20bb/100, so I guess I should be happy, especially since these are my first 9k hands of HU that I've played, but being almost 10 buyins below EV in under 10k hands is kind of meh.

I'll try to play more this month, but I don't want to have to force myself to play. This is a hobby for me, not a job. I really like this game, but it's hard to enjoy poker when you're not winning, so how much I play will probably depend on whether I hit a downswing or not.

gl guys

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