SNE Plans

I have decided to go for it. The final factor that made me decide in favor of an attempt, is that I am finally picking up day job work from a new company.. so there is a lot less pressure on the poker income.

I only have a lol $3.1k bankroll but that is 60 buy-ins for the 100NL 50bb tables. So I will start off there and see what happens.

I am a lifetime winner at 25NL of 1.7BB/100 (2.2BB/100 in the last 250k hands). I am a 1.2BB/100 winner at 50NL over 250k hands.. So what's my expected winrate at 100NL? I have no friggin' clue, but even if I lose at -.5BB/100 I will still make 70k; so there really is no excuse.

In my spare time I have been formulating a schedule and have decided 6 days a week, with two 4-5 hr sessions a day. It still gives me time in the AM to work my "real" job and it allows me 3-4 hrs in the evenings and Sundays to spend with the family. I have also scheduled 2 months of vacation time to give me a break at the halfway point and then again at the end of the year for the holidays. It also allows me 28 sick days.

So without further adieu, here is the breakdown:

2011 SNE Schedule

~15000 hands/work day

247 work days

~3,705,000 total hands

1,000,000 total vpp

3,500,000 total fpp

$56,000 FPP bonus

$4,667 bonus/month

$24,400 milestones + $20,000 SNE bonus= $44,400

$3,700 milestone/month

$5,200 tournament packages

$105,600 total RB

$8,800 RB/month

($37,050) projected earn (-.5BB/100)

$68,550 TOTAL

$6,855 TOTAL/work month

Notes:

1. It looks like a lot of hands, but since I can comfortably do 2k hands per hour now its not as bad as it looks. (I typically average 1700ish hands per hour.)

2. It looks like I am setting myself up for failure with the negative winrate, but I am a realist and know suddenly moving up two limits will not be easy. If I do better than this, great.. if I do a bit worse.. I can still get there.

3. I will mark on the calender when each bonus is coming to keep my piece of mind and to give me mini goals to reach along the way.

4. I will only be checking the cashier Sundays. Daily, I will only have hands and VPP points earned on HEM. This allows me to be more focused on my actual play and less focused on the money. I will treat this like a video game and the only "prizes" being collected are VIP points. I know this puts me in danger of going busto.. but it will be pretty clear while playing if I dip below the minimum amount to get 24 tables up. My plan if this happens, is to drop the number of tables or move to 50NL until I hit a bonus. I have enough vacation and sick days to allow me to still reach SNE even if a temporary drop down in stakes is needed.

2010 Review

2010 has been my winning-est poker year since I started playing in the summer of 2007. I am pretty happy where my game went even with being a full time dad and working a day job that takes a considerable amount of my time. I feel like I have paid my dues and am ready for something bigger.

My overall game by leaps and bounds this year. Some of the stuff that was Greek to me at the beginning of the year is now fairly trivial. I know I still have leaks in my game and look forward to plugging them while I grind 2011 out.

Month to month earnings:

Jan- $1,020.63

Feb- $1,045.00

Mar- 0

April- 0

May- $650.00

June- $1,549.18

July- $1,492.83

August- $1,338.30

September- $1,422.84

October- $1,003.89

November- $1,814.17

December- $1,315.95

2010 total- $12,652.79

Hourly rate- ~$16.50

Monthly review- December 2010

As you can see, I took it easy this month in preparation for my high volume in 2011. I never did play any hands at 50NL. Instead I spent a ton of time reviewing hands and watching videos trying to improve my play. I learned a lot this month regarding flop textures, correct spots to barrel, and bet sizing.

Monthly Review- December 2010
Cash winnings: $707.65
SNG/MTT winnings: $6.93 (16 $1 DON SNGs)
Rakeback: $601.37 FPP value (10,738.71VPPs * 3.5 FPPs/VPP)
Current Bankroll- $2,724.23+24,456.32 FPPs x1.6c= $391.30= $3,115.53
Hours played|$/hr: 52.5| $25.07/hr
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$1,315.95 profit

Starting to think about next year

Its been a variance filled month but at least I am up so far. I have grinded my way back to about a 3k effective bankroll and have been doing a lot of thinking about next years goals.

The company I do CAT work for just finally started sending me local work for the off season. This takes a TON of pressure off of my poker game since now I likely won't have to cash out much if any each month for expenses.

In fact, I am now leaning more towards actually going for SNE now since I can afford failure. 3k may seem like a very low bankroll for trying a move to 100NL, but since I mainly play the 50BB tables I actually have 60 buy-ins right now for those games.

I am going to go ahead and move back to 50NL now to lessen the culture shock associated with a 2 level jump. Hopefully I don't blow my whole roll in the last two weeks of the month. :)

I do realize SNE is a huge accomplishment and will be very difficult for someone with a day job. But since I am used to working long hours and other individuals have shown that it is possible.. I think I am pretty dumb if I do not make an attempt. I ran the numbers and even if I average a loss of 2k each month, with rakeback I would average 6k income anyways. This is a bit more then my best year ever in my "real" job.

So I will crunch the numbers a bit more and post my plan for SNE next year sometime this month.. of course if I decide not to go for it, I will post that as well. 3.7 million hands next year seems very daunting.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Back on track

Above is my week thus far. I do still have a short session tonight planned, but I may bail on that and spend time with the wife.

I am trying to pace myself this month because I may make an attempt at some super high volume next year. I am still undecided on SNE. My br with fpps included in only about 3k right now. I assume 3k would be the minimum I would want to begin a try for SNE, 4-5k would be much better. I also need to cash something out by the end of the month. So if I can't add at least 2k more to the BR by the end of the year, I will likely need to either readjust the SNE schedule or just try for something lesser.. like 600k vpps or something.

In the past 50k hands or so I am running just under 3ptbb/100 at 25/50NL. 90% of my volume right now is at 25NL, I plan to slowly shift that to mostly 50NL by months end so the transition to 100NL won't be such a culture shock.

Right now I feel completely in control of my game. (isn't that usually when the wheels come off?)

I have gone back to basics and made several key adjustments to my game.. and how I adjust to the game of others. The area I have improved the most is extracting more value from my medium strength hands and losing less on them as well. I won't bore you with the details. Here is a couple fun hands from the day. I got paid on quads 3 times btw, ridiculous good variance.

Hand #1: The villain in this hand is a 14/12 reg who cbets the flop 46% but 3 barrels a whopping 75% of the time after cbetting. Once he commits to a hand he pretty much goes all the way with it. If he has AA/66 here its a cooler. I had him on AK the whole way but pretty surprised by what he had. This was a 50bb table and we were extremely deep for these games. This guy is definitely a level 1 thinker.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (7 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

MP1 ($5.73)

MP2 ($17.84)

Hero (CO) ($24.03)

Button ($7.18)

SB ($10)

BB ($11.93)

UTG ($26.96)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 3, 3

UTG bets $0.75, 1 fold, MP2 calls $0.75, Hero calls $0.75, 2 folds, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($3.10) 3, 6, A (4 players)

BB checks, UTG bets $2.21, 1 fold, Hero calls $2.21, 1 fold

Turn: ($7.52) 2 (2 players)

UTG bets $5.37, Hero calls $5.37

River: ($18.26) 10 (2 players)

UTG bets $18.63 (All-In), Hero calls $15.70 (All-In)

Total pot: $49.66

Results:

UTG had A, Q (one pair, Aces).

Hero had 3, 3 (three of a kind, threes).

Outcome: Hero won $47.66

Hand #2: The villain in this hand is a 38/4 drooler. Note I would have played it a bit different were it a more competent player. I feel I did a good job of maximizing value. One question I asked myself, is whether he knew he was playing the board on the river. I think he thought he still had a strong hand. It appears that I got lucky on the river.. but I'm pretty sure he is never folding even if the last jack never comes.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Button ($4.65)

SB ($23.92)

Hero (BB) ($46.23)

UTG ($9.94)

MP ($16.36)

CO ($12.50)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2, J

4 folds, SB calls $0.15, Hero checks

Flop: ($0.50) 5, J, J (2 players)

SB checks, Hero bets $0.40, SB raises $0.80, Hero calls $0.40

Turn: ($2.10) 5 (2 players)

SB bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50

River: ($5.10) J (2 players)

SB bets $1.75, Hero raises $43.68 (All-In), SB calls $19.62 (All-In)

Total pot: $47.84

Results:

SB had 7, 5 (full house, Jacks over fives).

Hero had 2, J (four of a kind, Jacks).

Outcome: Hero won $68.15

Hand #3: Another major drooler.. 50/5ish who has trouble finding the fold button. (please don't add a tutorial on where it is stars) In this given hand, I sized my 4-bet both to make it as cheap as possible for him to call and to give me just under a pot sized shove for the flop or turn.. depending on the texture. I find that bet sizing is extremely important at the 50bb tables.. you are always thinking about the next 2 streets when betting, since the commitment threshold varies so widely from hand to hand. Its much different than playing deep stacked where you are less worried about facing all-ins at any given moment.

Note the delayed shove on the turn. I did that to allow him a chance to get a piece with his missed broadways and to allow him the chance to feel I am full of crap if he has AK. Another thing I have improved on in maximizing value is to remember the entire range.. not just the weak part and the strong part.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (7 handed) - Hold'em Manager Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (MP2) ($13.73)

CO ($35.42)

Button ($5.33)

SB ($4.51)

BB ($5)

UTG ($5.50)

MP1 ($5.50)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A, A

2 folds, Hero bets $1.25, CO raises $3, 3 folds, Hero raises $3.50, CO calls $1.75

Flop: ($9.85) 5, 5, 8 (2 players)

Hero checks, CO checks

Turn: ($9.85) 10 (2 players)

Hero bets $8.98 (All-In), CO calls $8.98

River: ($27.81) 7 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $27.81

Results:

Hero had A, A (two pair, Aces and fives).

CO had A, K (one pair, fives).

Outcome: Hero won $26.45

Yes it is possible

Sometime this year I heard about a good player breaking even at 25NL over 100k hands.. I thought the idea of this was hilarious.

Until now.

I am exactly break even over my past 100k hands at 25NL. I did add 600 in rakeback but still... its pretty ridiculous what variance can do. I hate to imagine what the streak would have been like at 100NL+

In a nutshell, I suck and need a ton of work. Back to the drawing board. :)

Weak Tight is my middle name

I was continuing to review my play over the past few weeks and realized my aggression has declined considerably. It is exactly half what it was a couple of months ago. HALF. Instead of an af of around 3.5 it is now in the 1.8 range.. wtf???

So I fired up 12 tables so I could concentrate a bit closer on things. Its pretty obvious once I stopped and smelled the coffee that I was missing tons of spots to apply the right pressure.

In a nutshell.. I have been on autopilot.

And while it is a tiny sample size.. this is the graph from today.

The showdown winnings are crap but check out the red line. There were a lot of good barreling spots that I was missing. I made a couple of check raises with air against a button raise on an A high flop.. since A high is a tiny part of an aggressive button range, its a profitable play to throw in occasionally. My weak tight ass was not finding these spots over the past 100k hands or so.

Its kind of funny though, since my live play has been the complete opposite over the same time period. I play in a pub poker league and have a reputation as being a super aggressive bastard (and an idiot according to many "good" players) I simply look for more spots since I'm obviously one tabling and since they are donkaments and move pretty fast You have to accumulate chips pretty quickly. Every single season I am consistently at the top of the power rankings and make more $ (virtual money) per game than anyone else. This season I have played in 26 games, have 26 final tables and 23 top 4 finishes. Albeit, the games only average about 15 people.

So why hasn't this aggressive play translated into my cash game play? Because I am a 24 tabling super nit who has been focusing way too much on vpps. So I am going to continue playing 24 tables, but if I find myself losing aggression, I am going to have to cut back and forget SNE. Its just not worth it.. I can't stomach losing or even breaking even.

SN curse?

At about the same time I achieved Supernova, my current downswing began. Here is the graph.

As you can see, I am down about $400 in all in ev. The graph fails to show the times I got it in on the river after someone hit two pair, gutshots, or a set on the river. My hands seem to hold in the small pots but I get boned in the big ones.

However, I am realizing something.. worrying about this crap doesn't help anything. There is nothing I can do about it. I think its key to forget about the results and focus only on the quality of my play. As long as I play my A game, my best results will come. Period. My best results are all I can hope for. Tilt and changing my game based on the outcome of prior hands will add up in a negative way in the long run.

So I am officially saying goodbye to caring about results. I have set a FPP goal for the month. I will not check the cashier again this month until I achieve it and from here on out I will only check it once per month.

Went into the time machine today

Before I left for the job in Phoenix in October, I was having my best month ever so far at 25NL. I was on top of the PTR leaderboard and was simply crushing.. every play seemed automatic easy. After nearly a month off, call it rust, call it whatever.. but things just weren't the same. The game had become a chore.

So I went back to the weeks leading up to my time off and studied my stats, hands, etc and had a minor eureka moment. I had actually taken notes back then on what I was doing and thinking at the time and it made me realize I had stopped thinking about hands the same way. I had suddenly become results oriented and somewhat of a tilting calling station.

So today I went back to basics, I simply thought about ABCD as I played and focused on maximizing value. This sounds obvious right? Shouldn't I have been doing this anyways? Well I think I had become so focused on reading the players at the table, I had forgotten on playing my own cards effectively.

I have played 7k hands so far today and while the results aren't stellar.. the tilty moments seemed to have vanished. I think its mainly because I am more properly setting up better spots for myself and flying less by the seat of my pants. Choosing the correct action in relation to value and forming a plan for each hand before proceeding sure does make things easier. I am now considering different options based on board texture and opponent tendencies rather than just mindless aggression or passivity.

As for goals for the month, my plan is to grind up 100k FPPs by months end for the 1.5k bonus and then decide whether to go for SNE next year. I made all the necessary scheduling plans, I just need to make the final decision. I am actually leaning towards going for it.

It gets worse and worse

I thought I was running bad up until today.. but today was horrendous.

Is this even possible? I had AA 44 times today, got called 19 times.. 9 times they hit sets.. one time a guy flatted a 4bet with qj and turned a straight.. another time a guy flatted my huge 3-bet with 10 8 and turned 2 pair. I won two raised pots with AA.. the biggest being 25 bbs. So down 5 buy-ins with AA alone and ended my session down 8 buy-ins.

I am down 16 buy-ins at 25NL for the week. The sick thing is, the games have been tremendously good. Tons of whales everywhere and for some reason Pokerstars won't let me take a dime. I feel lucky to have moved down to 25NL.. imagine this crap at 50 or 100nl.

I won't bother posting any hands, I am going to purge them now and try to start fresh for my evening session.

November Review

Some good things definitely happened this month.

1. I achieved Supernova for the first time.

2. I had my highest volume month ever... nearly 200k hands.

3. I had my biggest winning month ever.

Of course my move up to 50NL went horribly, as usual. The last 10k hands were promising, however, and hopefully I have now adjusted to the move up.

50NL is just so dang nitty.. even at the 50bb tables. It seems pretty easy to outplay most of the players there but people just won't stick their money in as light as they would at 25NL. People also float a lot more and fold less to steals. This is to be expected and I have adjusted accordingly. The learning curve has been fairly painful, however. It didn't help that I ran $400 under aiev after moving up.

Monthly Review- November 2010
Cash winnings: $722.18
SNG/MTT winnings: $6.00 (VIP Tourney mincash)
Rakeback: $785.99 FPP value (14,045.74VPPs * 2.5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP+4,002.79*3.5*1.6c)
Stellar Rewards- $300.00
Current Bankroll- $1,962.55+13,259.67 FPPs x1.6c= $212.15= $2,174.70
Hours played|$/hr: 120.95| $15.00/hr
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$1,814.17 profit

As you can tell by my graph, it could have been an amazing month, if only I had done decent after moving up to 50NL. The frustrating thing is, if I had stayed at 25NL.. I likely would have had a 3k profit month.

So my br is sufficient for staying at 50NL. I did cash out the $1k Supernova bonus but I won't be forced to move back down unless the BR gets under $1,500. Hopefully I run at least average next month. Wish me luck.

Goals for December are to get 100k fpps saved up to buy the $1,500 bonus by years end. Getting that should satisfy any volume goals.

Break even week

Well almost.. $-3.86 after rakeback. Not the worst result for my move up to 50NL although running $250 under aiev does suck.

Yesterday and today I have been thinking about play at 50bb tables... getting value from short stacks and skewing my range to allow villians to misplay against me. I won't go into any great detail but the early results are promising.

I have decided on my goals for the rest of the year. I cashed out my 1k bonus for reaching Supernova and my bankroll is now right at $2,200ish. I want to play enough volume to get the $1,500 bonus by years end so I can begin play at 100NL in January.

I am still on the fence about trying for SNE next year. It looks like I would need to play an average of 8 hrs per day at 100NL to get it. That's pretty dicey considering my job can take me out of town at any given moment. Unless of course I make enough in January and February to be able to quit my job.. but I am not burning any bridges until I am certain I can make it doing this.

SNE is definitely a big accomplishment and I really need a good challenge... I just need to make certain a go for it is right for me. I have never quit anything in my life, so when and if I make the decision, I will get there come hell or high water.

Variance continues

Another bad first sessions today as I was $150 under aiev. So far since moving up to 50NL I am 14 buy-ins under aiev.

I remember posting about this a few months ago.. where I got fed up with life as a TAG.. relying on SD winnings really blows. I switched back to TAG just to go for volume and possibly make a push towards Supernova this year and possibly elite next year. I am beginning to think I should just switch back to what I seem to have a knack for.. LAG play. The problem is, it is hard to play the same number of hands.. which makes elite very tough.

But.. I think I am not going to progress anymore as a player if I keep trying to be something I'm not. Playing my cards face up is not my strong suit.

I have some more thinking to do. I guess if I just friggin' ran good it would be easy. I probably am just frustrated right now because I always get boned when I move up to 50NL. Of course in the back of my mind I sometimes wonder if I can ever beat above lowly 25NL. I'll just keep plugging along, I still have to dump another $500 before I move back to 25NL.

Supernova!

Its hard to believe I am finally Supernova for the first time. In case you don't understand how big this is, it basically adds about $4/hr or so to my hourly rate at 50NL.. which at the volume I currently play, means another $600 in my pocket each month... the gains are even higher as I move up.

I ran like ass today and was down $400 at one point. I did recover a lot of it and ended up -$100 after rakeback. I was afraid for a bit there it would be my most epic one day downswing ever. Woo f'ing hoo 50NL, kiss my big white ass.

I do think I am getting a better handle on the play at 50NL.. I think I succumbed to fancy play syndrome during my first days of the move up. Its time to get back to basics going forward.

Anyways, I'm off to have a beer to celebrate! I will post my goals for the rest of the year soon.

What is it about 50NL?

I am not one to complain too much but variance, but this is getting really old. Every single time I move up to 50NL I get instantly doomswitched. Luckily, this go around has caused minimal damage to my bankroll.. most likely because my skill level is much higher now than it was earlier in the year. Also, I don't tilt off money after taking beats anymore.

Every day since moving up I have instantly dropped 6-8 buy-ins at the beginning of each session only to grind it back up by sessions end. I am now about break even for my move up to 50NL after rakeback and am 8 buy-ins under all in ev. I was absolutely crushing it today and it was once again cooler city. I was only able to play a short session due to it being turkey day. Here is the graph.

And here is the last 50k hands at 50NL.

I am not going to post any beats from today but I lost my first 5 all-ins in a row with 85% equity at worst. I am also 39 buy-ins under all in ev lifetime at 50NL (250k hands) but still up 22 buy-ins overall. Is this even friggin' mathematically possible? lol

I am now 1,800 vpps from Supernova. I will likely get it Saturday.. that is if variance allows me to stay at 50NL.

Running bad this month

So I am running bad this month.. not a big deal. I am at about 1.8ptbb/100 still which isn't too awful. The past Friday was the worst, 1 outers, 2 outers, preflop/postflop coolers galore.

What I try to do in times like this is just remember that over the course of a poker career there will be horrible stretches and all we can do is just focus on staying with our game and trudging through it.

So for the next week I will focus on the basics and try to prepare myself for the move up.

I have 3.9k VPPs left to achieve Supernova for the first time.. I will get there on Friday, Saturday or Sunday... depending on how much I get to play during the holiday week. Of course if I run really hot on Monday/Tuesday I could conceivably get there a lot faster as I am at about $2,300 in raw cash in my poker account. I am making the move to 50NL at $2,500 so we'll see what happens.

I am still very nervous about 50NL. I have played over 200k hands at that level and had two terrible downswings in that period. I am .53ptbb/100 lifetime so far at 50NL, however, so hopefully I have learned something in the past 9 months since I last spent significant time there.

If the month were to end today I would have my all time best month at around $1,800ish.. my previous best was $1,600. I still have 9 days to go, so unless something horrific happens, I will post my best numbers ever.

By the way, this is the first week I have successfully made it all the way through without looking once at monetary results. I am proud of myself for that fact but still find myself glancing back at an all-in table to see if I won or lost the hand. This is a big no-no and I have to break myself of it. My best stretches ever involve me not knowing or caring how I am doing and playing each hands separate from all of the others. This poker "nirvana" is something I am striving for.. its the hardest challenge to overcome for me.

For the next week I will look at my daily dollar results since I am so close to moving up. I will instead focus on not paying attention to how I am doing on a table by table basis. For example I have a bad habit of clicking back on a table to see if my big bluff worked or whatever. All this does is piss me off when someone calls me with bottom pair or cause me to get behind on my tables and start timing out. Another thing that is surely hurting my win rate.

October Review

I was out of the town most of the month but for the few days I was home early this month I was pretty happy with how things went. I am adjusting my poker schedule to about 36 hours a week starting in November. At 1600 hands per hour that should be around 240k hands which is plenty. I have heard of players burning out, so I want to settle into a schedule I can mentally sustain for the long term.

Monthly Review- October 2010
Cash winnings: $793.92
SNG/MTT winnings: $30.50
Rakeback: $179.47 FPP value (4486.65VPPs * 2.5 FPPs/VPP * 1.6c/FPP)
Stellar Rewards- $0
Current Bankroll- $1,063.78+21,439.14 FPPs x1.6c= $343.03= $1,406.81
Hours played|$/hr: 36.75| $27.32/hr
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$1,003.89 profit

My only goal this month is to not check the cashier until I hit Supernova as I am less than 15k vpps away. At that point I will hopefully be moving up to 50NL.

I am back from out West

I had a job to work in Phoenix since the 7th as there was a hail storm out there on the 5th. I work on a Catastrophe team for insurance companies as an auto damage appraiser. I got 15 paid days at $450/day in so that should take the pressure off of my poker play for a bit. I was hoping to make at least 4k this month at 25NL but instead will make at least 8k between my job and my play. This extra 4k chunk is definitely welcome as we usually don't get big storms like this late in the year.

It appears pretty hopeless that I will maintain platinum star this month. Not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, I am only 15k away from Supernova anyways. I would have to put in about 7 hours of play a day for the rest of the month, and since my daughter's birth day is on Saturday, that makes it just about impossible. Instead I will put in at least a couple of hours a day and then start fresh on Monday and try to get Supernova in November.

I tweaked my bankroll management plan a bit since I now play the 50bb tables full time. I will move back up to 50NL at $2,500 and 100NL at $5,000. My ultimate goal is to be a reg at 100NL by years end and then possibly take a shot at SNE in 2011. It is a lofty goal but hey, no one ever got anywhere by taking the easy way out.

I will wait and announce my goals and such for next month for Sunday when I post my meager poker results. But here's a hint. No more cashing out until I am at least a reg at 50NL and my cash out allows me to actually stay at that level!

I also want to start working out again next month. I am getting old and its going to catch up with me if I don't get back into decent shape. I used to bench almost 300 pounds and I doubt I can even do 150 now. I made a millionaire out of Mr. Frito Lay, but he made a Fat Mutha FU@#A outta me. :) Not really, I am 6'2 and 215 but still.. I need to be 215 with 30 pounds less fat :p

On top of a PTR leaderboard

This is my first month ever grinding a ton of hands and its nice to see it pay off. I ran like ass the last two days or I would have left 2nd in the dust. I am going off on a business trip for a couple of weeks and my playing time will go way down, so I likely won't be able to hold onto first. Maybe I can get a badge next month.

Fun hand today

This kind of stuff usually happens for my opponents, it was nice to suck out for once.

No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($20.73)
UTG ($4.43)
MP ($3.20)
CO ($14.71)
Hero (Button) ($13.20)
SB ($5.10)

Preflop: Hero is Button with 7, 6
2 folds, CO calls $0.25, Hero calls $0.25, 1 fold, BB checks

Flop: ($0.85) 5, 4, 7 (3 players)
BB bets $0.75, CO calls $0.75, Hero calls $0.75

Turn: ($3.10) 5 (3 players)
BB bets $1.25, 1 fold, Hero calls $1.25

River: ($5.60) 3 (2 players)
BB bets $2.25, Hero raises $10.95 (All-In), BB calls $8.70

Total pot: $27.50

Results:
Hero had 7, 6 (straight flush, seven high).
BB had 5, 4 (full house, fives over fours).
Outcome: Hero won $26.14

On another note, this month is going well so far. I have put in a ton of volume and although I'm not exactly running like God, I am doing okay. Here is the month to date graph. Its the fastest I have ever gotten to 1k in a month by far. Hopefully this trend continues.