Zoom Cash Games

Zoom Cash Games and Moving down to NL2

Hi, that picture is my current month performance, I am recovering from my initial downswing. I had a major downswing when I started playing zoom cash games, but instead of quitting those games, I decided to move down in limits, so I went from NL5 to NL2.

I do really enjoy much more this kind of format, they are more faster, I can play more hands in less time, I also make more VPP's in my sessions, witch will be a long term beneficial thing. Daleroxxu pro poker player made a great analysis about them, check it out here. 

Right now, I just want to mantain my Silverstar status, learning to play the right strategy to beat the game is my number one priority for now, building my bankroll is the second critical goal. VIP status is a medium goal, important one but not for now.

I played so far about 20k hands of cash games, will continue with zoom poker and play some tournaments once in a while this month, I will evaluate this slightly strategy game change, in playing this type of cash games.
  

The Worst Start Of The Year

This is being my worst month in terms of net won results at no limit holdem, I am 10 buy-ins down for the month. In terms of quality decisions made, I think 85% of my decisions were the correct ones, I lost many hands on the turn and river. I had some big hands at preflop and flop but they did not hold until the showdown. I also made some mistakes on some hands.

 I hope I can even out this and at least make a break even month, it's very though to play when you are on a downswing, but you just have to push yourself out of the downswing and keep the pace. Here is the current graph for this month, not the sexiest but it's the reality of April.

March & Trimester Performance

March Review
I started running very bad last month, but I am getting used to this. After 10k hands I was 8 buy-ins up. 12k hands latter I was negative, what a feeling! Anyway, hard work and dedication pays off and ended up March a better month than February.  I made almost the same net amount of February but in less hands.

Until 13th of March, I was playing almost everyday, then I had some personal things to take care on 14 and 15 day of March. After that I did not put the volume I was expecting to make, again, some personal stuff happened and my focus was not at the tables. Here are the overall performance for March:

 This is my vpp status on Pokerstars, I made more than 800 vpps last month:

Trimester Review
This is being my best year in terms of net amount won at the poker tables, the last trimester was very good, after grinding NL2 for almost 3 months (November, December and January), I jumped to the next level, NL5 on February and it was the correct decision.

I will continue with NL5 because I am very conservative with my bankroll and also because I cashed out more than 15% of my bankroll last month. When to move on to NL10? Well if I continue with this performance I think I can move on to the next level on June.

This is the trimester graphic, I played 124141 hands with a 7,20 bb/100 and a net won of $318. This is also a good indicator that I am a better cash game player than a SNG player.

What to expect from this month?  Well I will work hard to play 50k hands and make more profit than last month ($150? Why not?). I will try to make 1k vpps this month, it's not easy but it's not impossible.