I Cashed

Okay, so... Since I have a day job now, my playing has been more for fun as of late.
Last night, with my bankroll of about $30, I first played in a $11 double-or-nothing game, where I cashed,
after which I played in a $11 buy-in $4000 Guaranteed tournament.

Yes, I played that SnG just so I would have the money to play in that tournament.

In any case, I was doing well when, at around 11PM, the game went to wait, before a 5 minute break. I was rather sleepy at that point, so I set up an alarm due in 10 minutes and took a nap.

That was the plan, anyway.

As the alarm sounded, I turned it off and went back to sleep. This morning, as I checked my bankroll at PartyPoker, it had gone up a little - a nice amount, really, but not by much. I currently have about $45 there, meaning I can now play 1-2 cent NL games, or 10-20 cent FL games, while sticking to Chris Ferguson's suggestions - never buy in for more than 5% of your bankroll and leave table once you hit 10%.

Cool like bowties.

Another losing streak

There are two big reasons for those.

One, my hand range tends to be too wide for fixed limit.

Two, I attempt to bluff a bit too often. 

Bluffing in FL is very hard - you have the people who mulishly call with any hand even if there are overcards, potential flush draws and so forth on the board. Also, calling is cheap. 

In NL you usually only have to worry about the other guy having the hand you're bluffing to have.

As for hand range... well, Hellmuth says suited connectors are like candy - you play and win with one, it's hard to put any of them down. 

This is true. 

Naturally, I haven't had an opportunity to play SnG's since those require a winning streak. Also, my tournament performance has been shoddy.
I usually start out doing okay, but large blinds in addition to the fact that most tournaments run so late, local time, I'm ready to go to sleep anyway.

A little bit of gambling

So... lots of ups and downs - I'm still between 30 and 40 dollars on my bankroll. 

Some of the downswings are due to playing too much - for a certain reason I was trying to gather a certain amount of frequent player miles, so to speak, but that's past.

Anyhoo, just for fun, when I have a good run, I play a $1 SnG. A ten-seater pays around $5 for winning. 

If I happen to place first, I then play a $3 SnG. And so forth. 

If I happen to lose, or not place first, I start from the beginning... A self-imposed tournament, if you will. 

Playing badly on NL tournaments

I've been mostly playing fixed limit... I'm raising 3x blinds and half pot a lot of the time. I think that's okay.

However, I tend to hang on to drawing hands too much. Risking elimination 3/4 of the time before you're in the money is NOT a winning strategy. Obviously.

I used to know how to play something small-ballish, but I never ended in top places with it - I hung on pretty well, but didn't have the chips for late game, usually.

Bankroll Management... working.

I'm up from my all-time low of about $15 at Partypoker, to about $32.
Still need to make about $8 more, to be able to play at 0.10/0.20 FL, which also makes a $2 buy-in into a NL game a total of 5% of my bankroll, meaning I can play 0.01/0.02 NL.

0.15/0.30 Limit requires a bankroll of $60, so that's my next target - a 0.02/0.04 NL takes $80, which is also the limit for 0.20/0.40 FL.

Thinking back, that's where I was, a couple of months ago. I was playing a lot of $6 - $11 double up sit-and-go games. Alas, all it took was a few losses in a row, and when each loss is $11, a bankroll of $80 didn't last long.

Reading Super System 2

Jennifer Harman's chapter on Fixed Limit, is rather interesting.

I've pretty much given up on getting rich quick schemes, instead I'm sticking to proper bankroll management.
In PartyPoker, this means... actually, let's make a list:

1. <$20 : 2/4 Fixed Limit. 
2. $20-40: 5/10 Fixed Limit
3. $40-60: 1/2 No Limit, 10/20 Fixed Limit

So Forth. 

Helsinki Grand Casino

Visited. Had one decent hand, which was AK. Flop had king, went all in, doubled up against KQ .

I had to make a train, so I'm afraid I may have left a bad first impression on the other players, though, I pretty much left right after winning that hand.

I'm not really playing that well otherwise, or at least I've lost at Partypoker again.