The 6-max saga continues

Don’t look away for too long, I am slowly turning into a 6-max player right before your very eyes. The 6-max quest lumbers on slowly, but it is going well. I don’t get in as many hands as I would like during the day, but the ones I do are productive and I am learning something.

In the few thousand hands I have played since this began, I am winning 2.5BB/100. Now I know what you are going to say, Max! How can you be happy with that win rate over such a small sample size! Thats just it, never before while playing 6-max have I been a winner with this many hands played. I am always negative BB’s and hating the game. I know this doesnt mean I am a winning player yet, but it does mean I am learning and on my way to being a winning player. How did I make the transformation you ask? What? You didn’t ask? Oh well, I am going to tell you anyway.

When I first gave 6-max a shot months ago, I heard all types of advice. Be aggressive, always be in there raising, loosen way up, etc etc. I would get way too loose and raise far too much, and I would basically just be spewing chips all over the table. I would bet bottom pair on the flop, get raised, and call down with it. What a joke. I never did that crap in full ring games, so why was I in 6-max? Who knows really, maybe that is what I thought you did in these loose games. I just know it never worked.

Now, I am picking my spots to be aggressive and its working out much better. Sometimes I still do call down with middle or bottom pair, based on my reads of the other players. My post flop play has improved big time over the past 6 months. Remember, I have only been playing just under a year and only have about 75,000 hands experience, so I am just a baby and still learning on the job so to speak.

It has come to the point where I hate to even fire up a 10 handed table, its just too boring. The only reason I still play full ring is because I need to so I can clear some bonus money. At the PR skins you need to play at least $2/$4 and above for the bonuses to make sense, due to their high rake structure. I am just not comfortable playing at those limits short handed yet.

I have really been fucking the dog when it comes to that Eurobet bonus. I would probably let it go if I didn’t need that $600 to cover my losses the past 3 weeks or so. OK, I don’t need it that bad, but being so close to clearing it, it would be dumb to let it go now. 1,000 more points and its mine. That is about 5 hours of 3 tabling 3/6 tomorrow. God help me, its going to be boring.