Spent the morning playing 6max 5NL – I’ve taken enough beatings at NL10 now to make me back off a bit and regain my confidence again (not to mention my BR). I know that I’m still making plenty of mistakes and need to sort those out. More often than not it’s a hand where I’ve painted myself into a corner with a bluff or marginal hand, and what I really need to do is make decisions easier for myself, not harder!
Anyway, today went well;
I had a big rush of KK’s & QQ’s which gave a nice showdown rise early on – one hand was even all-in against AA and I hit a K (evened out later on, had KK, flop went 484 – villain had played 43s…). Strong non-showdown winnings, although I wasn’t playing deliberately that way – many of my hands had really good showdown value but the villains just didn’t have the stomach for it unfortunately.
Last night played some HU with S1ndr0me and Yegor – we were trying out the private table stuff which was pretty good apart from having to wait an hour for each table created. HU seems a lot of fun – all thrust and parry stuff, but I’ve no idea what I’m supposed to be doing – it all seems very random with psychology playing a bigger role than the cards even. From what I’ve read HU is one of the ways you can still excel at poker while not being overwhelmed by everyone and their dog who’s read 2p2 and all the training sites – possible even to still make good money in other words (for instance – read this; $1M in 300k hands!).
S1ndr0me and I played two games and won one each – we then got Yegor involved to see if he could kick our butts (he could), but by then I was onto my second bottle of wine. Somehow I took the decider off S1ndr0me, although I’m not going to claim any skill there – I think I just hit some good hands at some point (I think?).
I also played a few HU SNG’s during the day, and won a couple, lost a couple. I’m nowhere near rolled enough to play the HU cash games (NL50), but the SNG’s are only a couple of dollars. I’m wondering which is better – a SNG is played for stacks and the rake is all up front, but you can walk away from a cash game when you realise your out of your depth.
