Hello,
Been a while since my last post, the reasoning for this is purely because I had a break from poker in general, I think I was out for 6-8weeks in total.
This was due to running bad & playing bad along with some tilt, but the main reason was actually because I had to withdraw 90% of my roll for a car. This kind of de motivates you to play again because one minute you're moving up in stakes and I was playing up to $10.00 MTT's but I was left with around $50.00 in my account which means I would have to put in more volume and the once boring grind of 25cent/50cent games was back on the cards for me. To be honest, I tried to avoid playing with BR management as it bores me but realisticall I know I need it or I will go busto but to start my grind I blew $20 in MTT's ranging from $1.00-$4.00 leaving me $30.00 and looking for a way to grind it back up without SnG MTT's.
Whilst not playing, I've just been working and watching the odd game of poker here and there to be honest, but nothing much in terms of poker.
Headsup SnG Grind:
I've always liked the idea of HU SnG games because for one, you can grind from mega micro limits, $1.50 (10c rake) and for a $50.00 roll it means I have enough buy-ins to cover the most obvious down-swings in HU because lets face it, they are the most volatile form of poker. Obviously I had to try and educate myself in the HU format because it's indeed very different compared to FR or 6max and playing good hands just doesn't apply in HU. It's more about out playing the other as opposed to what cards you hold and assigning ranges of hands the other holds etc.
I have no idea if I will be a winning player at heads up and the main goal at the minute is just getting a feel for headsup and trying to build a roll to eventually be able to move up in stakes. I'm unsure of if I have the capabilities of doing so, because they are very tilting to play and if your not careful you can blow a BR quite quickly if you go on tilt and I'm prone to tilt at times, when getting sucked out on left right and centre. The difference is, it happen s alot more in HU.
At the minute, I'm beginning to feel more comfortable playing HU the more games I play, I think it improves your overall game by quite a bit and I've played close to 150 games at present with a small profit but obviously I need 1000+ games to determine if I'm going to be a winner.
