Moooooving On Up!

Hello, an amazing thing happened today. My balls grew and I took the plunge and played a $22 heads up game. I played a guy with around -25% ROI, and thought hello this level isn't so bad!

Since then I have played 32 games for exactly $100 profit at an ROI of 14%. Early days, but something over 10% ROI will guarantee at least $2 profit a game which should hopefully see my account soar (TOUCH WOOD!!). Using sharkscope, I didn't play against one player I would class as a solid reg. There was a mix of average stakes $40 and around -5% ROI who knew how to play but had flaws and just a few who had a decent ROI. I will play a lot more this evening and see if it toughens up then. I imagine it will be more polarised, with more strong players but hopefully more super-fish!

To get me the balls to play, I worked my roll up to around $2100. Since my last post, I have only had one session of 9man turbos I think and lost around $40 from 15 games running pretty badly and not playing great. Apart from that it's been exclusively heads up, which seems to be my new direction atm.

Sharkscope shows that since I started with my $200 deposit heads up I have the following stats.

Games 904
Avg Profit $1.45
Avg Stake $9
ROI 15%
Total Profit $1,310

The 9 men are pretty much the same as before so I won't bother re-posting them.

So yeah, I'm not on a super-hot sicko luckster run atm but the heads up is staying OK and seems to be the most profitable way to play at the minute.

Also, I can play heads up whilst I'm playing in tournies, which I did last night. Spurred on by the 2X prize pools on Stars, I played the 5rebuy, the $11 and the 3rebuy.

I managed to cash in the 5 rebuy and 3 rebuy for $31 and $52 respectively after being in for $15 and $12. Not bad but I made a few errors which Nathan (who railed all night!) was witness to but generally played OK. I busted out of both from a reasonable-to-weak position running in to hands when making a stand but it's good to learn lessons and i can't expect a big score yet. I will play the same set of tournies tonight I think and hopefully can run deep. Though unless I hit the final table the prize money won't really be lucrative which is an annoying feature of these huge field games.

My roll at present is $2186 and my next mini target is $3200 or so before I might move up to $33 heads up. I was also sent $39 from Isaac on FullTilt that I earnt playing 1p/2p at the mighty Aidans cash game at Uni. I decided to play a $34.50 heads up game to try to spin it up and won 2 in a row. I withdrew the $100 or whatever because without a job I need the money and I was going to lose it all playing that high! Having a bit more money in the bank takes away the urge to withdraw from Stars so that's a good thing.

Again, another stupidly long post but it has been over a week. I haven't really played much due to seeing the girlfriend but I have taken the step to move up so it's been a productive few days that I have played. I had an amazing hand the other day where I had 66 vs 52dd on a board of Kx6d4x4d3d which made me laugh and a few hands from the tournie I wish I had saved because they were dubious so I will make sure I save these in future.

Hopefully, I'll be posting at 7 this morning having taking down one of the big tournies2nite :-)

Gl all. 13:47_star