In limited time (about 2 hours/day), I’ve been doing well getting acclimated back to the game. I’m happy, if for no other reason, because I have yet to do any studying, and feel like I’m slowly regaining my old knowledge anyhow. But I’m skittish about moving up to $50NL (which I’ll soon be fully bankrolled for) until I’ve earned my free Stox/CR membership and can watch some videos.
Some observations:
- I was doing really well at least reading hands and picking off weak players. Since I moved from 4 tables to 6, it’s been substantially harder. I wonder if I can actually make more profit with 4.
- $25NL is not nearly as aggressive as I remember $50NL being. I am being 3-bet, 4-bet and squeezed substantially less.
- I’m using my old PokerTracker setup, but am having trouble remembering to look at the stats to help me make decisions while I’m in hands. I remember having trouble with this before as well. Also, since you can no longer data mine FullTilt, it’s very difficult to get usable sample sizes and so far I’ve only rarely played against the same player on multiple occasions.
- Lots more Europeans than there were 6 months ago. Sometimes I am the only American player at the table. I wonder how this affects the most profitable hours of play.
- I promised myself that when I played, I was going to be free of distraction to maximize profit. So far, so good. I’ve yet to open a web browser in the background while multi-tabling. Occasionally I’ll listed to Mediocre Poker Radio or a PokerRoad show in the background, but will pause it when things get complex.
All right, off to bed. In the next post, I’ll try to do some hand analysis, as doing so and typing it out (in a sort of internal monologue type of way) seems to really help me think things through.
