March Review & PokerStars April 1st Special

I logged in stars today and saw there was a new section in the store April 1st Special. I went in to look and there were four items, quite unique, and admittedly, I thought they were real! Then I saw the last part of the description, that if you purchase you will receive a certain amount of cash.... plus the item? I thought. Too good to be true.

So I went on to google the forum and found a thread in 2+2 forum where it was something that was going on since 2 years back? The items were actually fake and you could just en-cash your FPP (only for SilverStar and above). The rates are good, 1fpp to 0.016cents, which means it is equal to Supernova's cash reward rate, the best. I went on to purchase all of them, took up a huge portion of my FPP, but it was a good boost to my bankroll. Nice move by stars I would say.

I had a good session on the last day of March, where I hit 3 nuts and my all-in were called by my opponents. One was hitting a full-house on the river, opponent hit flush on turn but was giving me free cards by betting only 1 bb. Board was super wet, I think we both put one another one a straight.

2nd was hitting a straight at turn, top pair guy also gave me a free card by not betting the flop.

3rd was another full house where opponent hit his trips in the river (my full house was made in the river too).

Above were all 0.08/0.16 6-max stakes.

This month is my 1st red month of the year. I could not get the exact amount of my loss because past two weeks I have using gf's laptop (where I use a fresh new PokerTracker installed), and I haven't got the chance to manually import my hands in this machine to my main one at home. But I would say I am down about slightly more than 100usd in cash games. Things wouldn't be that awful if I hadn't tried moving up to the 0.10/0.25 6-max stakes, where there are more floating on the flop and then 3-betting on turn, 3-bet c-bet etc.

I move up and got beaten badly there. I think my running good in February made me overconfidence and thought I could go up, but I think I need more time and experience to be ascertain that I could maintain there. I went up stake, crushed, moved down and build my roll, went up, crushed, came down and build my roll - basically what I have been doing this month.

I guess I will stick to my current stake, at the same time also learning the 9 Sit & Go, which I have been doing moderately well. Earlier had two games, one cashing out third, the other first, which I am happy.

Before that, I was playing SilverStar satellite match (130fpp) for VIP monthly $100k free roll, where I got knocked out with KK vs AQ vs 99.

If you played more than 5 MicroMillion events you get a free roll ticket earlier today for a $50k guaranteed tourney. Omg, got knocked out with AQ vs A4. We both slow play on a AAx flop but he hit the 4 on the damn river.

Both tourney played less than 20 minutes.

Ok my plan for April..

..look for a job.

For cash game I would stay at the stakes, maintain my SilverStar and then hit my first $50 stellar.

I will focus too, on my 9 Sit & Go, and then hope it helps in some of my MTTs.

Hope to bring my bankroll to the next level.