By jiacstrap on May 13th, 2008 (more posts by author)

Started over today with online poker by loading 190 onto stars. School is over and got tired of playing live games (too slow, competition is cake compared to online though). The main reason I don't like playing live is because I love 6max/HU games online. I started with the 6 dollar hu turbo SNG's then worked up to the 11's pretty quickly. I bought into two of the 22 hu mtt's and lost in the 3rd round on the first one, and lost in the 4th round on the 2nd one (cashing for 40 bucks). I started to 4 table the 11 dollar heads up games and single tabling the 23's. The bankroll is sitting at 473.55 right now. Im sticking with 20 buy in's t play at a level. I did start playing the 23's a little early, but it worked out. Right now I am rolled (20 buy in's) for the 23's. If I run good early I want to stay at this level until I hit at least 700 preferably 800 before I move up to the 34.50's.

Last summer I worked two jobs in AC. I got a lot of points for calling out at my current job (dealing at borgata) and it just didn't look good. So I decided to ditch the other beach job this summer and stick with dealing 3-5 days a week and playing online. Probably won't start playing live again til July/August. June 5th-20th is the Borgata summer open so im hoping to deal everyday and make 2-3k. My main goals right now are to stay within my bankroll obviously. Other then that im going to try to hit 1k by Sunday. I might play a little 50nl 6max when I get to 600+, but playing nitty.

The main problem with my HU game right now is trying to force chips to my stack, running fancy bluffs on the wrong players, and not letting the game come to me. Things are a lot different at these levels the the 110+ sng's that im used to. A lot of those sng's were playing some of the best players on stars/sharkscope and the level of play im at right now is a lot different. Adjusting to call stations that are running good was always a leak in my game, especially when tilting. For now im going to try to take bluffs out of my game. I lost both matches in the 22 hu mtt by running bluffs on a missed OEFD and a flush draw.