I flopped the nuts!

Welcome to May, everyone.  I lost $192.98 on April 30, so that’s casting a cloud over the whole month.  There’s really no reason for it, though.

That loss doesn’t even wipe out the gains from the previous six days.  It’s a smaller loss than the gain on my best poker day of all time, which came on the 18th this month.  About the only thing it did was turn my +$1000 into a +$800 month.

Those are insane figures for someone who got into this a year ago, with $100.  I’ve never been down more than $250 into the online game, and I was playing at a level completely cool with my bankroll.

So, the stats, then.

• $1/$2 Limit: 6600 hands, 2.6 BB/100
• $50NL (mostly 6-handed, but some full table): 3000 hands, 2.18 BB/100
• $25NL (full table): 1000 hands, 9 BB/100
• $2/$4 Limit: 923 hands, -1.48 BB/100 (down about $50)

I played in about 10 tournaments, for a loss of about $50.  The rest has to be bonuses, I’m thinking.  (I joined UB for rakeback, but they’ve offered a reload bonus every two weeks, and always right after I withdraw to play somewhere else, so I keep reloading.)

Yeah, almost all limit.  I initially did that to maximize the rakeback / bonus calculations, but it’s much easier to multi-table, and it’s a little easier for me to analyze where the mistakes are.  (One of my tendencies is to freeze up and call down in pots I might be winning: limit makes it cheap to check-call without attracting attention, and with looser players, I find I’m frequently ahead anyway.)

$1600 is the line where I start playing $2/$4, and it hasn’t gone well so far.  I have more to learn at the $1/$2 level, really.