Over My Head

[badblood44]

Played some 2/4 NL 6-max hold 'em last night on Full Tilt. Within a few minutes, I notice some surfer dude sitting to my left with "Rogue23" as his handle. Hmmm....sounds familiar, I thought.

Let it be known I have nowhere near the required bankroll to play 2/4NL. The last few weeks I've struggled to make the jump from .25/50 to .50/1 and I've been getting killed at .50/1. Not 100% sure why, but I know some of it has to do with the fear of losing more than I'm used to. The game and players aren't much different, but my psyche during the play sure is.

So I took a risk and jumped onto this 2/4 table with the intention of numbing myself to the larger swings such that dropping back to .50/1 would seem comfortable to me. Quirkly logic I know, but that's me. I do understand that I can lose $400 a pop, but I consider it a longer-term investment.

Regardless, I sat down with only $290 to start having only that much left in my FullTilt roll. Rogue and I basically stayed away from each other the 90 minutes we played together. I think it was mainly due to the cards, not a conscious decision on my part anyway.

I played very, very tight. Not on purpose, but because of my craptacular cards. I looked back and in 25 of my first 50 starting hands I had 8-high or worse. That's a bit statistically improbable.

I realized that this table might notice my tight play and respect some bets, even respect some flat calls on my part. They did, and I was able to steal a few small pots here and there.

The beauty of this table is that it was very aggressive. This allowed me to easily fold my crap cards but also to get paid off when I did hit.

I cashed out for about $420, a modest win at these levels, but one I'll take nonetheless.

It was fun watching Rogue/TP predict a certain player would double him up and then watch it happen not 5 minutes later. Classic.