so ive been grinding nl10 on and off, i never play sessions longer than 1.5k hands simply because i get bored. the beginning of the summer was going well, i never had losing sessions and i spent a lot of time reading and developing my thought processes for higher stakes so i'll be prepared when i get there. basically microstakes has been a joke. however this week i ran into a 4 buyin downswing. the ole KK v AA, set over set and just some 55 v 45 losses. nothing too big but i dont like losing. ever.
even though i rarely get it in behind it snap tilts me because getting it in ahead and losing is part of poker, but getting it in behind means you are playing bad and that is unacceptable. so when this happened more than once i decided to take a break and play a couple cheap tourneys to get my mind off of it.
i played a 2.20 quintuple shootout and got knocked out in like the 3rd hand by some KK vs AK 4 handed bullshit. However, it was my first shootout and i liked the shorthanded format because i play much better shorthanded. so i decided to play another today and shipped it for ~330 or so. first tourney win and felt pretty good. rolls me solidly for nl25 but i might play a couple more of these first to continue a little break from grinding 6max micro.
ideally i want to get rolled for nl50 heads up by the end of the summer. i tend to be pretty aggro postflop and i like the idea of playing your opponent rather than always nut peddling the cards in your hands. ill continue to slowly work on omaha over the course of the summer because i feel like the future is in omaha for a while as the high stakes games dry up. microstakes grinder talking about high stakes? yea, well, hopefully sooner rather than later if i start to grind more.
if you are rather new to omaha also but fairly smart id be more than willing to discuss hands and help each other out in the process over msn or aim. shoot me a pm if ud like. poker theory interests me tremendously.
heres a song for reading through that painful garbage
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terrybunny19240 United States. Jun 25 2008 19:28. Posts 13829
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