It's been a long time since I've blogged. I'm still playing poker here & there, but I've been having a hard time coming up with something to write about. Heh, I think the more hands you play, the less important any individual hand starts to seem. I have a hard time getting too excited about any individual hands or sessions.
I'm still stuck at some pretty low stakes. I count my online bankroll separate from my cash bankroll now, and I don't have all that much online at the moment. So I've just been moving up & down in the micro stakes. It's tough to build the bankroll up with the limited time I've got, especially after I took a few beatings at no-limit. I'm now sticking mostly to $1/$2 limit hold'em and $1/$2 HORSE. I get about an hour in every morning, assuming the baby is still asleep. I only average a few bucks per session, but at least it's going up.
I also usually play a $30 or $50 heads up session every day at lunch and I'm doing pretty well in those. I'm going to write up an article on my heads up strategy, which I hope to have posted up today if I have time.
I'm still doing good in the home game tournaments I go to. I won a couple recently, so that's helped my cash bankroll quite a bit. I've managed to pay for a trip to Vegas this summer, including another entry in a $1500 WSOP tournament. Hopefully I won't go out in the first hour this year!
One of my friends, Stutefish, is going with me. We'll be there for a week, playing cash games & tournaments all day, every day, capping the week with my WSOP tournament. I've been trying to train him in my "Snapping Turtle" limit strategy. Focuses on very tight/aggressive play and low variations, which should work out pretty well at the $2-$6 spread-limit game at the Excalibur. In that game, there's only one blind. And you can bet anywhere between $2-$6 each betting round. It makes it optimal to just wait for a hand and bet the max every round, especially against all the loose tourists. Should be low risk, big reward, and easy to pull off as a relative newbie.