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first i'll provide you with some background what i've been doing that i need rebuilding. after that i'll by outlining the gameplan!
ok so earlier this year i took some time off and left the Netherlands to spend some time in the great city of Buenos Aires. i picked up some Castellano over there and it was a good experience. Studying the language however took loads of time and the rest was spent meeting new people, that were also travelling and ofcourse the obvious partying.
However time spent on the tables was really cut down, money spent however not  . More so then i expected before leaving so on my return i'm facing the problem of rebuilding.
and damn its frustrating
kind of have myself to blame because i think playing below the level i was used to is so boring that i tried rebuilding by learning other games. Think Limit HU (awesome, that is so much fun! try it), PLO HU (equally awesome) and SH Limit (also very awesome but sometimes you have to hold the monkey agression back a little bit)
ofcourse this results in either spewing or being a rakeback player :S since for some reason my NL skills don't instantly translate... so unfair!
but learing other game's is so much fun, i really wish i was less tempted.
other reasons it's not working out as well as i hoped are:
* impatience - playing too many tables to achieve my BR goals faster, resulting in less bb/100 and more variance or... SPEW!
* summer - i love the dutch summer. this is such an awesome country when the sun is shining. stay away octobre-march  music festival etc.
* faded skills - in some ways i feel i'm a better player then ever. i picked up so much knowledge, not in the last place in the live events i've been playing; Mar del Plata in Argentina and some local event in the Netherlands.
But some of my HU experience has to come back a little bit. Being at the tables everyday and watching the latest video's makes you a lot more in tune i guess. i think this is coming back fast now though.
how dissapointing are my results? last year i was really crushing the HU games at 100nl and beating the 200nl games for a good amount. maybe 100nl for as much as 15bb/100. i did game select well though.
now i'm beating 100nl for 3bb/100 that's over 70k hands :S (sucks so much! if this doesn't go up it's not worth playing, and i love it  )
i also got quite some sample of 50nl and i'm beating that for 15bb in 30k hands. so my data suggest i should be playing 50nl. it would make me more money/hour :S
BIG MISTAKES:
-playing too many tables, sometimes 4 diff HU opponents mixing 100nl and 50nl.
-playing too agressive. something i tend to forget when too busy running everyone over (right) is that it's a lot of the time better at least against some opponents to give them the room to bluff. i think it should be a big part of your EV at these levels. Part of the opposition is really capable of making horrendous bluffs. and missing out on these because you are cutting them off left and right is probably not compensated for by the extra pots i pick up driving them away.
GOAL
-making 10bb/100 at 100nl
ADJUSTMENTS
-max 2 tabling
so never did this before. kind of just thrown my struggles out there. hope it sounds familiar or you learn something from my mistakes.
ps and mon more posting aonl liquiadpoapoker whielafe playing
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Laurentius Netherlands. Aug 05 2009 15:27. Posts 114 | | |
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