Session 9 - $85.10 to $77.31

Had my first session on Paradise Sporting Odds tonight - 4 x 5c/10c no limit cash tables. Not good, but recovered a bit at the end to only be $7 down. Will need to reconsider my strategy here I think - the usual wait until I have the nuts or a premium pair pre flop, then massively overbet and get calls from muppets who are well behind doesn't seem to work - the standard of opponent seems higher. Worrying that I no longer seem able to beat 5c/10c games!!!!

A few negatives from the site at first impression:

The bets are only shown as chips - not numerically - so it is difficult to see the size of bets - when you rollover the chips it does show an amount, however ONLY if it is the active window (which when 4 tabling it usually isn't because your last click would have been elsewhere)

I was looking forward to importing the hand history into Poker Tracker for analysis - however this is limited at any time to the last 100 hands (and by email only) - I will have to get into the habit of requesting the hand history every 10 minutes or so - which will be a pain!!! Because it is email, there will be no "live stats" either :-( Having said that, it is more than was available on Boss!!!!

Session 8 - $93.42 to $85.10

90 min session tonight 4 tabling (NLH).

Not going the right way at the moment :-(

Because I'm 4 tabling I'm not really learning too much post game - so I'm not improving - this is where Poker Tracker was invaluable to me when I played cash games on laddies. But because SO doesn't work with PT, I dont work through my hand histories afterwards ......

I don't have the patience to play fewer tables......

Session 7 - $134.92 to $93.42

Disaster Strikes!!!!!!!!

Opened up my session with 2 Omaha Hi/Lo tables - 20 minutes later I left them both with heavy losses ........ basically I am experimenting with a new game at higher stakes than I play the game I know!! I shouldn't be doing it and that was the lesson I learnt tonight - I just dont have the bankroll on SO at the moment to dabble at those stakes...... so I'll be steering clear of those tables until my bankroll is bigger. So I went back to 5c/10c NLH and recovered a little of my losses (4 tabling) .....

Session 6 - $138.76 to $134.92

A 2 hour session - only played 1 table PL Omhah Hi/Lo - only one table available.

Didn't play many hands - I'm probably too tight - have been reading a bit on starting hand requirements and can definitely play more starting hands than I have been.......

Session 5 $139.54 to $138.76

2 hours again - this time multitabling 2 Omaha Hi/Lo tables and playing a freeroll (Holdem). The Omaha - not easy, especially with a couple of PL sharks circling :P (Jaded and Uber)

In the end I broke even, not bad (especially as I started off poorly). But I did finish 5th in the freeroll for $160 (not counted in this bankroll) - so not a bad evenings work!!!

Where are all the Friday and Saturday night drunks/fish though? I dont seem to be coming across any (and if I am I'm not taking their money!!!)

Session 4 $94.79 to $139.54

Have experimented with Omaha Hi/Lo cash tables. a 2 hour session again, this time on the 25c/50c Pot Limit tables. Only one table, not 4 as usual !!!! I sat down with $50, over half odf my bankroll - not recommended!!!!!

However it was a good, successful session and boosted my bankroll nicely. Next time I'll probably try 2 tables.

Session 3 $109.93 to $94.79

These numbers aren't strictly true - since the last session I've paid (and lost) $1.10 in the $ Challenge and $3.30 in the Champions League. So my cash game loss was about $11.

This was a 90 minute sesh on a Friday night/Saturday Morning - I thought I'd take advantage of all the Friday night drunks - seems I managed to avoid them though.

Pleased to say that following my problems in session 2, this time I had relatively little trouble getting onto tables (despite the long queues - why doesn't the Boss software open new empty tables when all existing tables are full???)

Still up since I started this, but 2 consecutive losing sessions have me a little disappointed - the euphoria of that first session has gone ...... I know it's short run, but I should be beating 5c/10c games easier than this!!!!