sil693's return (not that you noticed he left)

I remember that face!

So as it turns out I managed to get $40 back onto Stars yesterday so I am already back up and running. In the past I have almost exclusively played full ring for a number of reasons:

- Less variance
- Requires less work / study (imho)
- Regs are worse (imho)
- I can get away with autopiloting
- I like saying that I play 24 tables

Only one of those is a genuine reason to stick to playing full ring and I don't think that reason on its own is good enough. This time round I have decided to try my hand at 6max, as it should force me to put far more time and effort into studying the game.

So its 2NL 6max for me, and in the last two days I have logged 10k hands - which brings me to the first thing on my mind. How many tables should I play? I assume the general consensus will be to start off low and add tables as I get more comfortable, but having tested out playing between 6 and 18 tables over the last two days I think I'm going to stick with 12 tables. Even playing 12 tables of 6max I feel like I have enough time to think hands through, take notes and play without feeling rushed. I'm not playing any fast tables and that definitely helps.

This volume isn't going to be standard for me, it just happens that I've had 2 days off whilst Hannah has been working. So my flat has seen a poker / xbox marathon.

The other main thing I've taken from my first 10k hands is working out how I'm going to go about learning / improving. In the past, I'd maybe look through HEM at my losing hands, think to myself "you should have done this" and just left it at that. If I posted a hand on FTR all I'd look for in a response was "you should have done x,y,z". This time, I'm going to be far more proactive in how I look to improve my understanding.

Instead of looking at hands and thinking "what should I have done in this spot", I'm going to focus on the "why should I have done x,y,z". In this blog, every hand that I post will serve the purpose of highlighting a specific topic that I feel I need to work on. I'll post the HH alongside links / extracts from posts that I feel are relevant. This way, I'll be forcing myself to read up on almost every topic. That has to help, right?

I'll start the updates / hh's tomorrow. That's enough for now I'm sure.

Dave