I've never been one for focusing on one particular type of poker. Not since they days when my bankroll was double-figures have I concentrated on one stake, one type of game, etc.
That's why in my various threads I tend to post updates with a few different tourney results, some limit and no-limit HE, both short-handed and full-ring.
Indeed it's only because my PT doesn't support Omaha and Five-Card-Draw that it's limited to that.
If nothing else it allows me to switch when bad luck is getting me down.
Recently the experiment has been tournaments, mostly SNGs and I've struggled but I think learnt a fair bit. Enough to justify the $400 or so it cost me? Perhaps not.
I've just bought Tournament Poker for Advanced Players and Harrington on Hold 'Em (Vol 1 +2), in the hope that spending $40 on books will teach me more than losing 10x that at the table.
I've got bits of what's left of my roll on Party and Everest. I had about $500 on each and have managed to wind up with less than $200 on each left.
While Full Ring started really well on Everest and went horribly south; my SHNL last month actually started unbelievable well (recouping quite a bit of my losses).
So I'm going back to $50NL (again). Both at full-ring and 6-max.
I'm going to try to get back to my previous nittyness and just start grinding back a new roll.
This is about the third or fourth time I've been forced back from $100NL and higher to start "afresh" at a level I thought I'd beaten and finished with for good.
But the reality is that although I seem to have a lot of sick downswings and very few good variance (last month was the closest I've ever really felt I came to a decent heater and I only got in 750 hands). But there's so much I've never fixed in my game.
Table selection (only ever got that at Party)
Reads, never really got them either, too often playing versus generic ranges
Staying out of trouble, whenever I think I'm done with stupid heroic calls...
Review sessions properly. Only since donkaments have I started putting anything like enough time into it.
I'm back on the Bonus + rb trail again, hoping to boost the bankroll again. After cashing out a fair chunk I've got around $1k that I'm considering my roll and I want to grind that up to $2k asap before I even think about moving up.
So far iPoker-Network.php>iPoker's been swingy but good for me. I'm also putting in some FR on Everest (but that's not going so well... the first session of August has sucked so far).
Over almost 50k $50NL I've only run at about 1.7bb/100, but then before the last huge downswing I was running at a lot more.
I think I say every time I drop down that I don't know how many more times I can take this sort of setback, but I always do...
Will the suckage continue? Time will tell.
Comments and Feedback welcome in the available comment thread
That's why in my various threads I tend to post updates with a few different tourney results, some limit and no-limit HE, both short-handed and full-ring.
Indeed it's only because my PT doesn't support Omaha and Five-Card-Draw that it's limited to that.
If nothing else it allows me to switch when bad luck is getting me down.
Recently the experiment has been tournaments, mostly SNGs and I've struggled but I think learnt a fair bit. Enough to justify the $400 or so it cost me? Perhaps not.
I've just bought Tournament Poker for Advanced Players and Harrington on Hold 'Em (Vol 1 +2), in the hope that spending $40 on books will teach me more than losing 10x that at the table.
I've got bits of what's left of my roll on Party and Everest. I had about $500 on each and have managed to wind up with less than $200 on each left.
While Full Ring started really well on Everest and went horribly south; my SHNL last month actually started unbelievable well (recouping quite a bit of my losses).
So I'm going back to $50NL (again). Both at full-ring and 6-max.
I'm going to try to get back to my previous nittyness and just start grinding back a new roll.
This is about the third or fourth time I've been forced back from $100NL and higher to start "afresh" at a level I thought I'd beaten and finished with for good.
But the reality is that although I seem to have a lot of sick downswings and very few good variance (last month was the closest I've ever really felt I came to a decent heater and I only got in 750 hands). But there's so much I've never fixed in my game.
Table selection (only ever got that at Party) Reads, never really got them either, too often playing versus generic ranges Staying out of trouble, whenever I think I'm done with stupid heroic calls... Review sessions properly. Only since donkaments have I started putting anything like enough time into it.I'm back on the Bonus + rb trail again, hoping to boost the bankroll again. After cashing out a fair chunk I've got around $1k that I'm considering my roll and I want to grind that up to $2k asap before I even think about moving up.
So far iPoker-Network.php>iPoker's been swingy but good for me. I'm also putting in some FR on Everest (but that's not going so well... the first session of August has sucked so far).
Over almost 50k $50NL I've only run at about 1.7bb/100, but then before the last huge downswing I was running at a lot more.
I think I say every time I drop down that I don't know how many more times I can take this sort of setback, but I always do...
Will the suckage continue? Time will tell.
Comments and Feedback welcome in the available comment thread
