Set a record for hands today, Poker Grapher

I set a new personal record of 1122 hands played, but I wish I would have played some of them better. I still ended up +$175 for the day, but it should have been a lot more. I threw away a whole buy-in on a very awful hand that I almost don't want to post, but it can maybe help remind me how not to play.

I was searching around and stumbled upon Poker Grapher, a free add on to Poker Tracker. Like its name says, it creates graphs of whatever time period you specify. Here is my graph of today:

You can click on it to enlarge it. As you can see, it was a pretty swingy session even though I never dropped below a full buy-in. Here are some of the significant hands:

Nice Start
I don't mind the way this guy played his hand pre-flop if there wasn't that under the gun limper. Disguising your hand is very important and this is a good way to mix up your play, but you just don't want to play Aces in a three way pot.

Aces suck
This may seem like I did the same thing as the guy in the previous hand, but there were other circumstances at play for this table. There were a few aggressive guys at my table who almost always would squeeze (a raise followed by a call from another player and then a 3 bet from a separate guy. This traps or "squeezes" the original raiser between the other two players in the hand)and so I felt it was worth the risk of slow playing. The squeeze never happened and it was a heads up pot with my hand very disguised, so the result wasn't too bad. When I got 4 bet on this flop, I really felt like the bulk of his range here was an overpair trying to prevent a draw. I felt a set of 5's or 10's would just flat call my checkraise and then raise my turn continuation bet. Instead, he had 22 and my elaborate Aces plan went to shit.

I suck
This hand really pains me. I didn't mind my 3 bet play at the time because this guy raised his button every time, so his range was very wide. Looking back on the hand now, this is pretty bad preflop by me. When I three bet light, I want to be doing it with hands like suited connectors because it makes decisions so much easier. Either you hit the flop hard or you don't and can easily get away from a one pair hand. In this hand, I hit my Ace and my continuation bet got called. I should have shut down here and cut the losses, as nobody is going to call my flop bet without an Ace or better. For some reason, I pushed him after his obvious inducing bet. I didn't think at all in the hand and I payed for it.

August has started out very nicely with three winning sessions. My goal is to make $4k this month from online cash games alone. I also want to win one of the Turningstone tournaments next week so let's hope I can make one of these goals happen...