Another decent day;
That puts me on the edge of being rolled for $20s. There’s a weird deja-vu as this is exactly what happened last christmas. I guess that means I should perhaps do my roundup of 2010 now;
January
2010 was the first year I really tried heads-up NLHE for the first time. I’d messed around with a few shootout MTTs but nothing with any thought behind it. Yegor told me to switch to husngs because he was printing money and had been saying how good they were for ages. He said try 50 microstakes matches and see if it works out.
Apparently it worked out 
The 50 $5s went well enough, andI quickly jumped to the $10s. I immediately had a nice heater, which left me nicely rolled to try $20s.
February – May
The $20s were tricky, but somehow I managed to scrape enough to try some $30s. 4man shootouts in particular seemed to support my BR more than regular matches;
The nice BR gave me the opportunity to buy some coaching, pay for sites like sharkscope, and generally whimsical prop-bets (still hardly balla, but fun nevertheless). With a BR of $1000 I was marginally rolled for $50 games, and dipped my toes a couple of times.
May-July
Then it all went wrong;
Game after game was lost. I followed proper bankroll management and moved down as I past each threshold, but it didn’t ease off. Utterly miserable 3 months 
July-December
The rest of the year was a complete rethink of what had happened. I moved right down to $2 games so I could pound out game after game with relatively no impact on the remains of my bankroll. The hope was that I could really watch what I was doing to see if there had been any element of skill in my rise, or whether the whole thing is just variance in action.
The rethink worked, and I saw what I had done wrong. Putting it into practice hasn’t been easy though – hard to change the spots of an old dog.
Essentially my fundamentals are fairly solid – preflop I was raising appropriately (albeit with some 3bet leaks pointed out by Yegor), postflop I was getting value ok (not too hard at these stakes – bet,bet,bet!), while for bluffs my flop cbets and turn double barrels were ok too. What I was doing wrong though was bluffing in large pots and making poor hero calls. Forcing myself to stop doing this was a bit tricky – to see an idiot donk out with a PSB was like waving a red flag to me.
So this month I’ve been folding, and concentrating on the value bets. The results were fairly immediate, and even better the lost matches obviously showed the same hero calling leaks which reinforced my belief that I’ve worked out where it was going wrong. Now I need to keep trying to get the balance right and not let the bluff demon back in as I move up in stakes.
(blue = with Rakeback + bonuses)
