February Recap

So including $2800 in rakeback I made about 58k in february. My previous best month was about 30k in november but the past two months I had been struggling, with -8k in december and 8k in january. It felt great to have a real breakout month, especially considering before the month my goal was 20k and maybe giving myself a shot at cracking 30. I also played the most hands in a month Ive ever played, with over 60k hands (cant give exact number because im on laptop right now). So I didnt join the $1/hand club for a whole month but was at that mark a few times throughout the month. My goal now for the next few months is 30k/month. This might be a little high but I plan on playing mainly 5/10 w a little 3/6 and some shots at 10/20 when the games are soft. I took a few shots at 10/20 last month and so far this month and am about breakeven there. I had one real bad night that I think I already mentioned where I dropped 11k there so other than than Ive actually done pretty well. The weird thing about 10/20 in my little experience there has been that the games play much more passive preflop than 5/10 and probably even 2/4 just in terms of 3betting preflop. People seem to 3bet much less preflop in position but will just flat your open and make some moves after the flop. They also seem to give less resistance in defending their blinds, I think because it's so much tougher to play a 3bet pot oop. There are probably 2 other factors feeding these observations: 1)Im an unknown to most of the players there so they are probably trying to get a feel for how I play and not playing back at me as much and 2) Most of the times 10/20 runs it is running around a big fish and so most of the players at the table are more focused on playing hands in a way to stack the fish rather than fighting a high variance low ev battle w other regs that playing so aggressively preflop often turns into (and players at 2/4 were especially awful at realizing this in my experience, often isolating the fish out of pots to win 5 big blinds from a reg when they could take the fish's whole stack w a good flop. real smart). Its quite humorous at 10/20 though bc there will be these 5-6 person waiting lists for a table when a fish is playing then when the fish leaves everyone at the table sits out and the ppl from the waiting list start shuffling through the fish's seat until the table breaks.

Im in Miami now, have been since Sunday and leaving on sunday. Havent really played much poker because of that but put in a a +1500 session on monday and a +2500 one this morning so im pretty happy about that bc i only play like 2 tables on my laptop since it tilts me not playing on my desktop. Weathers been great too, and our hotels right on the the beach so ive been going in the ocean and having a relaxing week all around. Only been able to go out one night so far (Wet Willie's on south beach was pretty sweet) but hopefully am hitting up the hard rock hotel/casino tonight to get some gamble in. I hear they have some high stakes sitngoes so i might play one of the m because i heard the cash games are pretty stupid since theres $100 max buyin for 5/10.

Heading home sunday on a redeye which is gonna be brutal but guess i cant complain after a free trip. Katie's coming up next weekend because its her spring break next week so looking forward to that. Other than that just getting real excited for march madness, just got in a $100 pool w my older bro and his friends so should make it interesting. Just really hope the terps can pull off some wins at the end here to make it. My other team now, St. Joes, had a big win last night against #11 Xavier so that should help them (although its gonna hurt UMD). And in other news St. Margaret's/St Joes Prep Alum (represent) John Griffin hit 40 foot 3-pointer at buzzer to lift Bucknell over Navy in double OT. Shot was also #6 today on Sportscenter's Top 10. Thats how we do it baby.