Ye I keep making these half assed short updates and shit so I figured I would make a bigish one for once. Since I got home from vegas I was sort of motivated to grind a ton. I decided that since I am going back to school and wont have alot of time I was going to grind 2/4 6-max on ipoker for a stress free grind to throw in whenever I have some free time. I decided not to play anything higher even if my bankroll went huge because I just dont want my life to be affected by my poker results at all, especially when I am in school. The ipoker games where suprisingly good, I stick to the 50bb min tables and there still plenty of really bad players and bad regs. The problem is, I have some serious lagtarded issues. I think playing only heads up for so long ruined me completely, I just try to run people over a bit too much and just dont give anyone credit for anything. I am slowly adjusting but its really going slow and getting used to playing 6-max again has been kinda painful. I am still like 36/31/6 and Im still spewing in obvious spots.
I think the main problem is that I dont really enjoy playing 6-max that much. Its just a grind and it kinda bores me sometimes but whatever, its just a job and a job that pays pretty well if you know what you are doing. So this sunday I decided to play a couple of donkaments for kicks and among those where the ftops 500 hu. Emmidiately after starting my first match in that I realized how much more comfortable I am with playing heads up. I just enjoy it more and I feel superconfident in my own ability to crush my opponents. Heads up is just such a fast paced game where gameflow can change in an instant and making good reads and getting inside your opponents head pays off really fast. In 6-max its just way more of a grind, you pick up some tendecies that you might use to make a thin call down 1500 hands later or w/e but its so slow and grindy compared to hu. Its also way easier to actually see where your ev is coming from in HU which always is a comfort.
I went deep in the 500 HU and eventually busted 7th for 14,3k(as mentioned before). Kinda discuraged with losing the match against a fishy player that went on to win the whole thing but atleast I was really loving poker again. After this I havent played a single hand of 6-max, I also havent stuck to my rule of playing only 2/4. (w/e i felt really focused and played some 5/10 yesterday, sue me!)
Cashing in the HU donkament gave me a roll of ftp and the HU action there is really sick. Alot of bumhunters but the playerpool is so huge its not that hard to find someone to play you, especially since my tableratings shows me at like negative 9k or something after some random spews i made a couple of months back.
So now I am in a bit of a predicament because HU isnt all fine and dandy either. It is alot more stressful, you cant always get action and you have to deal with the constant fear of some opponent quiting you at any second. It can also be really swingy if you are into that kind of thing. 6-max on the other hand is very consistant, not terribly swingy and just all in all a comfortable grind. You can always sit down, decide to grind for two hours and that is that. Its just boring and I am not as good at it as I am in heads up. To actually show a good profit I need to man up and stop lagtarding whenever I get a chance.
Here are my 6-max results from ipoker so far:
Heres the HU from FTP:
And my shot at 5/10 on ipoker yesterday(lol rungoodaments):
Being results oriented aside, I think I am pretty good at hu and definitely alot better than I am at 6-max. It just suits me better. I still wanna polish my 6-max game so I can actually grind it profitably whenever I dont feel like playing HU or w/e.
As for not poker related stuff, I finally locked down an appartment and I am signing contracts and stuff this saturday. Took me a while but I finally found one that I really like and that didnt skyrocket completely in price. I will upload pictures when I have moved in and stuff but I am pretty stoked about it. Cost me 1,1 mil SEK(uhm I guess like $140k) for a small appartment in central uppsala. Living aint ez.
Im getting pumped for school, I know its going to be tough and disgusting but I welcome the challenge as I havent done much at all but playing some poker here and there for the last year. Gonna try and make the most of the last few weeks for freedom I have.
Ill end it at with a cool song with a very swedish summerish video.
def agree with cutting down on poker for school and/or opting for the less stressful route but it also depends on how difficult your course is cuz you may have a bunch of time to burn
gl
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
On August 14 2009 21:57 PokerDoc88 wrote:
how long is the med course you're going to do? and how many years do you spend with your head in a book before u start seeing patients?
Its 5,5 years of study and then some other shit. I think we get to hang around at the hospital and be around patients pretty much from day one, but the first two years will be very theory oriented obv.
Sweden. Aug 13 2009 13:02. Posts 9685
