6-max is swingy! And WOW, is there a lot of action; Lot's of fun! The house is empty of all visitors finally, so I got in over 2000 hands last week.(a lot for me!) At one point, the BR peaked over $500, but I lost a little with a couple bad beats and one bad play.

It's crazy what some people, a lot of people for that matter, are 4-bet pushing with PF. Suited QX, 98o! It's just super easy sometimes, but granted, they could be playing back at my LAGG style. The hard part is finding out if you are in a hand vs. a flesh puppet with or without a brain cell, because 9/10ths of the time, they don't have one (Limp Calling UTG with 94s? WTF). I'm playing pretty LAGG, running about 30/22 or so I think. And it's not uncommon for me to have to C-bet into 3 or 4 opponents. That leads to high variance for sure, but I'm mostly getting my money in good. The fun-factor seems to be significantly higher than FR (Full Ring), but that probably has a lot to do with the action.

I don't have the hand histories, but I'll illustrate a couple fun hands from this morning that I remember.

6-Handed $0.10 NL
Hero (~$15) [ QQ ]
Villian (~$15)

I'm UTG with the ladies, and make a standard raise to $0.40, Folds to the BB (Only have 5 hands on him, but he's played every single one, and aggressively), he 3-bets to $1.2. I think about 4-betting, but decide to see a flop since we're deep.

Flop comes T-high, like T73 or something. Pot is about $3 or so, and the villian INSTA-PUSHES for about $13! Now, in full ring, I would've probably folded nearly all the time, and MOST of the time I would fold here also. But I went with my gut, and snapped off his JJ, taking down a nice 300BB pot.

On the flip side of this at another table, I'm in the BB with AA and a $10 stack, UTG limps, and maybe one other limper. I raise to $0.50 or .60, and UTG calls, and we're heads up to the flop which comes KQJ rainbow. My gut says YUCK, but I bet anyways. UTG min-raises (or not much more) and I tank. My gut says fold, but I don't want to listen to him anymore, I've got ROCKETS! They're unbeatable! POOOSH!!! Ooops, he had KJo.

So my instincts are working pretty good, I just need to make sure that I'm paying attention to them.

Finished up the floor of the Woodshed this weekend, and am starting to chop and load the first cord and a half into it. This thing is big enough to hold probably 8-9 cords, so I'll have my work cut out for me for my next few months. Had quite the adventure getting my parents-in-law on the plane back to Germany; They misread their travel plans, and we arrived at the airport when their plane was leaving, oops. Apart from all that, It's kinda eerie quiet in the house now. I'm wondering when it will start to feel "normal" again.

BR: $483