Fear and Loathing at the Micros

The past month before the end of this week, I had been thrashing about at 2NL. Running into some coolers, getting 2, 3 or 4 outered and instead of winning $25 over ~16k I had lost $25 or 14.5 BI's. Trust me at 2NL, playing a fit and fold style, kinda weak tight and sticking to the Baluga Theorem that is brutally dull. Boring in fact. I was starting to really not enjoy playing poker. Which was not good. So when I dropped down at the beginning of the year from 10NL all the way to 2NL, it was simply to format my game and re-learn what I had forgotten before. You see 2NL is is a simple game. It really is, but it takes you fundamentals breaks them apart and rebuilds them for you, better and stronger. I learn a ton about fish's ranges, what aggression means on flop or turns on certain textures. I learn to get the max value from my bet sizing, on nearly every street and I learnt how to fold marginal hands, in marginal spots. I really felt like I improved.

And for ~16k worth of hands for last month or so, I have been doing all this, but just running like shit. So this week it dawned on me. I doubled my roll at 2NL from 22BI's to 47BI's. I was ever so slightly under rolled for 5NL. But what was I waiting for? Why was I still playing 2NL? What was I trying to prove? Well nothing. Time to move up.

Over the past 2 months every time I had tried to move up (which is about 3 times) I had run bad but mainly played too loose and made to many calls, as I felt I was getting bluffed to much. This time I stuck to what I learn and it work perfectly. I had a really good 4 days at 5NL and won 6BI's which is great. 

So I'll keep on keeping on and see what happens :) I have about $75 of rake back from the Pokerstars VIP programme to come pretty soon-ish, so that will be sweet too!

We are @25BI's for 5NL

This weekend's graph: