Hello. My name is nibbles, and I'm a weak tight player.

I finished reading Sklansky's No Limit Hold Em Theory and Practice. That book really helped alot. It helped me appreciate the value of deception. It is important to bluff, not to push opponents off their hands (very hard in microstakes), but to get action on your winning hands. I wasn't doing that. I wasn't playing poker. You have to try to make your opponents make mistakes and not just hope that they do.

Anywho, as expected, I got tired of playing limit hold em. Pretty much stopped playing poker on Wednesday and resumed Friday night after finishing Theory and Practice. Armed with a better understanding of the game I hit the table (not multi-tabling for now). I went back down to 2NL, but I only played at deep stack tables (half the players have 200 BB stacks) as I was buying in for $5. I only played where I had position on at least 2 players with $4 or more. I ratcheted up the aggression in position and went to work. I kept pressure on them and stopped being afraid (not real fear) of being played back at, attacked signs of weakness, and chased draws when the implied odds were there (not just pot odds). The last two days have been the most fun I've had playing in quite a while. I'm done being a nitbox.

Roll is at $224.01.