Harder work than I imagined, plus it pushes the tilt buttons a bit. This is two hours from this morning (1 hour of actual play, the rest made up of making coffee and having to restart Full Tilt after several crashes – one of which I managed to get back into the game with 200 chips & come back to win );

28 games, 14 won, 14 lost.

What have I learnt so far (from only 30 or so games )? Being so shortstacked 3bb open raises and 3betting should be obviously poor plays, yet I’m finding the players who do this very difficult to beat. Firstly you’re folding a lot to them so losing plenty of blinds & your 2bb openraises, secondly if you do call to see a flop it’s really difficult to continue without getting committed (maybe my 4bet shove range is too tight, not that these hands come along enough to make that much difference). Of course they’re in the same situation (which is why it’s so bad on their part), but if they keep the initiative it’s hard to play against. Ideally you want an idiot who bloats the pot like this and then plays fit or fold postflop, but finding out if they’re like this can be an expensive process (esp if they hit a hand, which can be any piece of the board – expect them to call down A2 when they hit the 2).

However fortunately at these stakes the majority of players are still calling on the button pre, with plenty of random shoves. A min-reraise pre is either an A or a PP, and I’m almost tempted to start folding to these since I seem to be getting into trouble despite the tiny call to make (for similar reasons to above). The random shoves are often really wide, although usually contain an A of course, but I’d seen stuff like T6o as well.

So no idea on a strategy yet, other than play the usual endgame stuff (not Nash btw, which is a ridiculous endgame approach). Never giving up hope is a good start, it’s remarkable how often you can come back from < 200 chips.

Perfectly read hands (aka hero donkey calls);