So before I tilted off the last of my roll furiously attacking micro stakes players with the false assumption that if my hand is 2% better than theirs then I stand a good chance of winning at showdown, I decided to do something even more stupid, play HU baby. Now HU has always fascinated me, even though I have like a total of 500 hands in my lifetime at it. What few adventures I have stepped in have left me feeling like this could be my bread and butter one day, mainly because I get so hyper involved in every hand (which is what tilts me) that a game like HU feeds off my desire to really probe each and every single hand played. I had been warned the game is a variance fest, and now I see why. I decided to take my 3 BI's to the NL50 HU tables, and I courageously grinded my way up to 1.2 BI's vs some guy, feeling like I was doing everything right. Unfortunately I got coolered to hell twice in a row and BAM, bye bye chiplead. Wow, all your opponent need do is double up once, and suddenly he is a tremendous threat to your stack. So I left with like 9 bucks to my name, however not depressed. Whenever I blow my roll like this I suddenly get this new found level of respect for the game, and a sudden desire to regrind from the bottom up.
So back I am at NL2. I'm only playing 4 tables sine well, thats all I can afford heh. I definitely looked over the responses to my last blog, looked at what I was doing, and literally just straight out reversed it. Everyone basically said "do the exact opposite of everything youre doing now". Interestingly I'm not finding myself getting bored, nor am I pissed when I see ATo was the best hand in a 4 way pot against a bunch of idiots who got it allin on a gutshot and bottom pair. I simply abide by the motto of JLIG, "just let it go". I've had 5 winning sessions since, most of which are less than 1 BI days, however this also does not bother me. I used to be obsessed with the idea that I needed to piledrive my way through the limits the way you 10k hand-a-day grinders do it. Now I am simply satisified if I had a winning session. I even quit after a few hundred hands only being up about 15-20BB's, and oddly I felt proud about this. My goal at this point is to simply have winning session's.
So I've doubled my mighty bankroll to $18, which I guess if you think about it is pretty oustanding, because it's DOUBLE my bankroll. And im not shortstacking or anything like that. If I could double my bankroll at NL200 in a week that would be pretty brag worthy, so why not at NL2? Oh well. With a certain rakeback affiliate I use they now autocash your RB to your account every week regardless of the amount. At NL2 this is a godsend as it really helps replenish those micro losses. I should probably keep this to myself, but I also intend to embark back on that Negreanu 5 BI strategy where I move up every 5-6 BI's at the low limits. This could result in another "humbling blog update" in a few weeks but heh, so be it. I think as long as I can keep chill, and realize better hands in better spots will come better days, I can stay afloat.
That, is all....
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