By birdsnbees on April 8th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Eesh, after running my bankroll up to a record-high, I've lost nearly a third of it back in a day. I'm not playing to the best of my ability and its aggravating because its like I can't control myself. I'm not making simple laydowns I should be making, I over-complicate things for myself and assume that every 3-bet I face must be people just playing back at me with air. I feel like I've taken my game to a level that I didn't need to take it too. I plan on taking a break for a few days, maybe by playing micro limit games on a different site, and hopefully return to playing solid. I was pretty close to being adequately rolled for 1/2 but after this downswing I'm not planning on moving up anytime soon. There really shouldn't be a reason for a swing this sick. Hopefully I can turn things around relatively soon.

I played a handful of MTTs yesterday for the first time in a while and whiffed in all of them. I'd never played the UB $109 $9k Gtd but did ok I guess for my first time, finishing 16th/70+ for no profit. I felt like I played well and ultimately I feel that is the most important thing. I lost a crucial flip at the final two tables, AQ vs TT, and never recovered. If anything, I'm glad I feel still confident about my MTT game. Its pretty tough to switch from the super-aggressive 6max tables to a super-nitty tournament but I feel that I've got a good grasp on both games to flip-flop between them.

I switched from MTTs to cash when MTTs went bad and got boring for me, and although a little downswing isn't enough to make me switch back from cash to MTTs, its definitely a possibility if I can't recompose myself.

I am really interested in being shown any articles/threads dealing with 3bets in short-handed cash games. I feel like I don't know much about what to 3-bet with, whether or not to lead out, what range to put opponents on, etc. Obviously a lot of it is villain-based, but theres gotta be something out there. I'm going to search 2+2, but I'd appreciate anyone pointing me in the direction of some advice.

We need a Bond18 for cash games, imo. Is there an equivalent?