Stats since I got back!

The above image is my pokertracker stats from the past forty days which is pretty much the point at which I started working really hard on my poker again. This coincides precisely with my return from Denmark where I had a nice holiday with my friend Rasmus(4K.Kaj) and his girlfriend Sophie. I still have some photos to post from that trip! Anyway, I played some in Denmark too but that was only on my laptop and in a different database. I also played some live poker at the casino with Rasmus where we lost three nights in a row versus the biggest fishies I ever did see =)

These stats are from five different sites :-

Pokerstars (Running good)
Cryptologic (Running OK - Lost my first £20,000 deposit in two days and had to redeposit, won it all back since then and more but dented my stats badly for this site having to make $40,000 just to get back in the green. The $9000 loss at £8000NL($16000NL) comes from this slightly tilted initial two days.)
Betfair (Running OK)
Ultimatebet (Running hot)
Ladbrokes (Running bad)

99% of my play has been at six handed or less. I played a small amount of full ring $5000NL at Pokerstars.

I wanted to deposit on Fulltilt also but as I signed up with them when they first opened I have no rakeback deal. I wrote to them asking if I can get rakeback on my account but they refused. I also wrote to some rake sites asking if they could get my Fulltilt account's rakeback switched on but they said they can't also. So for the time being I am refusing to play there. If anyone with some power at Fulltilt is reading this and can get rakeback switched on my account then email me at igirdwood@tillerman.net.

I am quite pleased with my stats but there is some stuff I've been trying to work on recently. For instance, I don't like how I'm folding my BB to a steal around 80% of the time. This is a small leak and I'd prefer it to be a bit lower than this. If you look at my other screenshot below you can see I've been working on this area over the past six days.

Most of my profit is from the $1000 to $2000 games which makes sense since over 90% of my play has been there. I have been doing well overall in the bigger games though, up around $57,000 over what is around only 8500 hands. Guess I should play them more, just being careful as I grow my online roll again. No rush. I certainly won't be playing $10000NL for a while. I can't see me playing it properly until I've got around $400,000 online. I may take shots before then if the games are good which they have been recently =).

Around 11,000 of these hands are from heads up play which amounts to around $35,000 of profit. The only problem with heads up for me though is that I have to shutdown at least a couple of my tables so I can keep up with the action and play to a high standard. So I generally only play when I'm in the mood for it which has been fairly often.

This is my graph from the past forty days. You can see that at 75k hands I have a big downswing of nearly $35,000 in one day, that sucked.

These are my stats from the past six days where I've been experimenting with some stuff. Overall a bit looser and defending my big blind more, this has the unfortunate consequence of reducing my overall aggressiveness. Calling more reduces your aggressiveness and calling less increases it. This is an easy way to increase your aggressiveness if you struggle with that part of your game. Simply call less.