Day 9 - 555 hands $1.617Monthly goal $12.000 @ $5.259

I had two good sessions today. Most of the profit comes from the first session, where I got some very good hands. I think I played well throughout the day, but there were a couple of hands that tested my ability.

Q2s in the Small Blind: What bothers me about this hand is the value I miss on the river. I am pretty sure this opponent will call my all-in with a rivered two pair.
I know now that the correct play on this river, taking my opponents stack into consideration, is to push.

My earnrate sofar this month is surprising me a bit. How much of it is luck and how much is an increase in skill is still unknown to me, but I am pretty sure it is a mix of both.

TT on the Button: This opponent has been reraising a bit too frequently preflop, so I decide to see a flop with TT.
I am still unsure if I could have played the hand diffrently. I keep thinking the river is just random unluck and not a result of bad play, but in theory he could have had AQ or AK. With that many outs, giving a free card might not have been the right play.

Day 8 - 246 hands $494Monthly goal $12.000 @ $3.642

I have renamed my titles, so they fit better in the right column. "Sofar" has been replaced with an "@" sign.

My session yesterday was quite like the others I have played this month. I am setting a trend for myself in playing short but focused sessions. If that is for better or for worse time will tell.

AJs Under the Gun: This hand bothers me a bit. This is the third hand in a short time span where I raise pre-flop and get called by this opponent. The other two hands he has called my continuation bet and taken it down uncontested on the turn by a bet of his own.
If it is well played or not I am not sure of yet.

I am on a reload bonus at Full Tilt at the moment and I also have some rakeback saved up, so I am getting a nice helping hand with my earnrate.

Day 7 - 120 hands $1.050Monthly goal $12.000 @ $3.148

I had a good run yesterday and made a nice score. I thought I played more hands than I did, but I did go out with some friends so I guess I cheated work a bit.

I played mostly at $5/$10 and the higher stakes paid off. The tables were good and people were in a bluffing mood. I got a couple of good hands and cashed in on them.

ATo on the Button: At the time this hand came up, I had won a couple of big hands without showdown. So I was waiting for a couple of the players to play back at me with mediocre holdings if I kept up the aggression. It was still a tough push to make with only top pair, but I knew it was the right play.

I started the session of really bad, I played perhaps 10 hands totally unfocused doing other things in the meanwhile.
After I caught myself making a bad call I sat out at the tables until I could turn my attention properly towards the game.

K4o in the Big Blind: This was the hand that made me sit out for a couple of minutes. I just shouldn't have called on the turn here. The river bet is fine as long as I fold to the raise, which I again didn't.
Luckily I sat out in time to cut my losses or todays session could easily have been a train wreck.

Non online poker related news:

Today I have just been sleeping my day away. My friends and I played a board game based on the series Babylon 5. The game is new to us and we took way to big a scenario. It lasted through the night and into the morning and we stopped before it ended cause people had to get up again the next day.

My brother played in a local Dota tourney yesterday. Dota is a very popular custom map for Warcraft. He and his clan came in first and he won a 500 GB hard drive, so congratulations to him.

Day 6 - 389 hands $372Monthly goal $12.000 @ $2.097

Yesterdays session isn't that fresh in my mind. Looking through the hands again I see that nothing much happened. The profit mostly comes from standard play.
I should pick one hand to feature, so I might aswell go with the hand where I lost the most.

A2s in the Big Blind: The Button had been getting out of line with his raises and I had been looking for a hand to fight back with. I decided to call with this hand.
I know I didn't play the hand well, but it is difficult to point out any major mistake. If I were to play the hand over again, I guess I would bet out either on the flop or on the turn.

My friends and I gathered for two live Sit and Go's yesterday aswell. I didn't fare to well, not cashing in either. I planned on playing some more poker when I got home afterwards, but fell asleep before I got to it.

I havn't got anything planned yet for today, so I should be able to get some work done.

Day 5 - 604 hands $917Monthly goal $12.000 @ $1.725

I played on Party Poker today. I was a bit intimidated at first, all the players seemed to play a tight game. I soon realized that the players were just as bad as always, I just happened in on some passive tables.

I am glad that I am pulling up on schedule again on my monthly goal. I should be at about $2.000 by now, and I am not that far off.

I think that my biggest obstacle at this point is not playing enough hands. There is always something else to do each day when I wake up. I have alot of TV series to watch, my friends are always up to something and there are a number of computer games I wanna try out.
I hope to keep some discipline and stay on target throughout the month.

JTs on the Button: This was my biggest winner of todays session. I had just overbet pushed a couple of hands earlier, so I thought he'd definatly call me with any two pair and maby even some one pair hands like AJ or AT. When I pushed though he took a long while before he called. Since he did that with a set, perhaps I wouldn't have gotten a call out of two pair.