I had a rough downswing, and decided to take a break from poker for about a week and gather my thoughts, I read a bunch in Sklansky's Small Stakes Hold em while I was on a wrestling trip to Arizona, and I realized I hadn't been taking the size of the pot into consideration enough when deciding how to play a hand, I was often wreckless and overaggressive when the reward was small, so I'd end up building a big pot with a very marginal hand, but I think I'm on the road to recovery, and so is my bankroll, $407.55! I've started multi-tabling limit hold em again, I played six for 2 roughly hour sessions and made about $100, about 4 of my 6 tables were exceptionally loose, and I caught some good cards and got paid! I think I'm just going to keep rotating between games, 6 tabling limit is kind of draining, so I think I'll only do that if I'm really feeling up to it and focused, and if I am wanting to relax a little more I'll prolly play some 7-game, a sng, or a heads up match.
The whole rush poker concept is pretty cool! I've done really well at 5c/10c on there, but keep on coming up second best at 10c/25c, and that was the cause of my huge downswing, the play is definitely better, and I need to make some adjustments before I jump back into it, I tried opening up my 3-betting range and it seemed to work really well at the 5c/10c table there, I just need to think through all my opponents possible hands a little better when I'm getting into big pots. I lost $25 today at 10c/25c on hands where I had 2 pair or better, but based on the action, there was no way I was good, but I didn't take the time to really think it through. I really like how Tom Dwan thinks through his actions on high stakes poker, my goal is to be more like that. He sits and thinks through everything for a good bit, then makes some really great plays. I also like how he utilizes the over bet, there was one hand with alan meltzer on there that I think the only reason he got paid off was because he over bet the pot and confused meltzer into calling.
cheers, Chad
_________________ "To win at poker, you have to be very good at losing." Tommy Angelo
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