Day 17

Today: +$529
To date: +$3583
To go: $96417
Bankroll: $4583

2295 hands *** 3.9 hours *** 10.3 PTbb/100 *** 21.3/15.8 *** MT: 6.3

Talk about a rollercaoster. Within the first hour, I was at -$450. Around $400 of that coming by way of the bad beat. After 1100 hands, I was at -$60 and took a break. Came back and took some more beats, and was at -$200 again. Finally after around 1600 hands I got back to $0. Then people just started paying me off and my hands all held. That was sweet. +$530. Nice.

Here's my take on bad beats. I don't mind the bad beats. It's a part of poker, we all know that. The thing that pisses me off the most is that they kill my winrate. Well, at least the ones that are 2 and 3 buyin pots do. I really feel that I should be crushing this level, but I'm only running at 6.1PTbb/100 after 14k hands at $100NL. I've had some brutal beats for big pots, but then again, who hasn't?

I went through $50NL in 12k hands. $100NL is taking longer than I would like. But when I sit back and realize that I am up $3500 in 17 days at the lowest limits (20 buyins coming from $100NL), I'm cool with that. I'm sure variance will even out, as I really feel that I should be beating $100NL on FTP for around 10PTbb/100.

Chalk it up to variance.