50nl 6max Impressions

Posted by icemonkey9 on May 4, 2009 in 50nl | 4 comments

So I moved down to 50nl 6max as kind of a warm up for this month. I had seen in previous months starting out down 4 to 8 buyins off the bat was a bad tilter, so I thought the easier stakes would make for a good fresh start, and looks like I was right.

First, I have yet to run into a good solid regular at the stakes.  Second, there are a ton more fish than at 100nl. Frankly, anyone that does an analysis right now between 50nl and 100nl 6max and says the usual, "A fewer more fish, and a few more solid regs" would be completely unobservant in my strict opinion.

So, I bought that May bonus which was great, and then I bought the GoldStar $285 bonus which I am working off now.  I plan to put in about 4k hands at 50nl 6max to start the month and then move back to my usual stakes.  Playing with 100+ buyins at a level is kind of fun I admit   Let's take a look at the good, bad and ugly so far in May.

The Good

You might have a bit of Deja Vu from last month! This time, at the lower stakes of course, the KK holds up and I win a nice pot.

The Bad

Same hand, much different result

The VERY Ugly

I dare anyone that reads this blog regularly to look through their PT3 or HEM database and find all the hands they flatted out of position in a 3bet pot and won the hand. I double dare you lol ... so yeah just an incredible luck-out situation by the villain here who flatted the 3bet out of position with apparent monster K6 suited and hit two pair against my TPTK. The villain was a 63/13/inf after a whopping 8 hands, and yes ... he left as soon as the hand ended. I remember these guys, I call them leprechauns!

Anyways, I am enjoying poker at the moment and being up so far in May is a good thing too. I think this new strategy of "starting the month off right" can be a big booster for the confidence and I think I might make it a regular thing.