Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Floating through life lately..

Well time does fly nowadays but that does happen when you are floating through life. I haven't been playing a ton of poker lately, but do try to play for 4 or 5 hours at least once a week. Still just been treading water on the bankroll and haven't made any further progress over the past month. One thing I did notice was that I had begun to multi-table too much for a while. When I was running well I was mainly playing only one table at a time with a little overlap sometimes if tournaments started. Last month I was starting to play 3 or 4 tables and lost focus. I am still not running particularly well and I haven't had any MTT cashes that mattered lately, but I think I am playing better again with more focus. It feels good when you are in real control during a game and know exactly where you are in each hand. One exciting thing I do have on the horizon is that the WPT is coming to a casino about an hour away from me next month. I am planning on playing in the $200K guaranteed for sure and possibly one other event. Aside from a few SNG in Vegas several years ago this will be my first live tourney so I am excited for the experience. It's only a $120 buy in so there will be a ton of people in there and it is going to be a blast. I might play an earlier event just to get my feet wet in a smaller field, but I am not sure yet if I will for sure. I am also considering playing more heads up SNG's again online. Before I started playing all the double or nothing type SNG's I used to play a ton of heads up and did pretty well at it. I have been throwing one in every now & then recently and have had good success with them still. My style heads-up tends to drive some people crazy as I play small ball heads-up. I literally min raise every single small blind I am in and then will 1/2 pot the flop every time. I always min raise preflop and never more and will flat call a raise back even if I have a monster. I never try to finish someone off fast even when I have a big chip lead. I just keep the pressure on and if they start pushing all in I will fold and wait until I have a hand that I am comfortable calling with where I am confident I am ahead. What I avoid is easily doubling up someone I have on the ropes and allowing them to get back in the game. This is just a style I adopted a long time ago and for some reason it tends to drive people nuts especially early on when the blinds are very small. Many occasions I have had people chat me asking WTF? I just prefer to play a lot of small pots and wait for a monster hand I can close the deal with. Heads-up is a brain drain though so I do dislike playing them non stop. When I am playing double or nothing type tournaments I am like a fan cheering on the others when they are against each other. I love seeing aggressive players going against each other as it makes for a fast and quick tourney for me.