The Aspiring Stacker

This space may go a bit quiet over the next couple of weeks; exams have just commenced. One down and so far so good!

Brief update: I've moved up in stakes! Didn't take long to conquer the 2NL fishes after all. Pretty chuffed. I would change my aim to hitting 10NL by end of May except that may not be so realistic, and I'll probably cash out a bit to pay for my HUD.

Some differences I've observed between 2 and 5NL:

1. Nittier - both my opponents and myself!
2. More regs/fewer whales. Still loads of stations.
3. Less limping
4. $10+ pots - eek! Blank! Blank!

Only played a few hundred hands so can't say too much. Going well so far, hope it continues this way!

Good luck with your exams... I was thinking that was why you didn't seem to be around here.

Originally Posted by Petulie

and I'll probably cash out a bit to pay for my HUD.

Get the boyfriend to pay for the damn hud!

Originally Posted by derekeverett

Get the boyfriend to pay for the damn hud!

nou

Originally Posted by Petulie

Brief update: I've moved up in stakes! Didn't take long to conquer the 2NL fishes after all. Pretty chuffed.

nice work! and good luck on your journey to balladom

All's quiet on the poker front. I played a bit of 5NL and was going really well. Then, just as I felt like I'd finally gotten used to the larger pots etc, I hit a pretty bad ass downswing. 5BIs when you've just moved up a stake actually hurts a little! Carroters says I was due some bad variance but I'm sure there were also heaps of bad decisions involved.

So I've taken a break. Just as well seeing as I'm in the middle of exams. That's another one down and I almost feel bad about how well they've been going. I suspect I may get better marks than folk that have put in a hell of a lot more effort than me... Looking forward to come Tuesday when I'll never have to sit another written exam, woohoo!

That's when I get crackin' on my new plan of action:

1) Move down to 2NL. Gutted. I've still got 15BIs for 5NL, but I figure I may as well rebuild my confidence and BR at 2NL, get some studying etc done before taking the next shot.

2) Lots and lots and lots of reading. There are several topics I'm wanting to cover - reading lists to follow once I've got access to my bookmarks. Expect plenty of posts trying to tie everything I'm learning together.

3) Hand reviews of my 5NL sessions. Figure out what went wrong, how much was variance vs bad decisions, and formulate rough plans for post-flop cause my strategy sucks.

4) Post the most interesting hands. Also need to go back and learn about calculating equity and pot odds on that thread from ages back.

5) Milk 5NL!