A Revelation

Things have been going pretty smoothly at $0.05/$0.10 6-Max NL tables. I've been beating the game pretty well at about 18BB/100 hands through about 3000 hands.

I always took a tight aggressive (TAG) approach to my NL tourney game, but after reading forums, reading blogs, watching FREE Cardrunner videos (cannot afford a subscription yet) on Cardplayer, I knew that a loose aggressive (LAG) approach is the winning formula for 6-max NL games.

Why tinker with my winning approach? Why did Tiger Wood change up his swing twice even when he was the best player in the game?

Answer: To get better.

By no means am I saying I am the best poker player in the world or even remotely close to being a good player. In my quest to a million bucks, I am going to learn things about my game that only practice at the tables will improve. I did not have to incorporate this style into my game at the penny/2penny games or 2penny/nickel because playing ABC poker is the winning formula.

I though playing LAG was calling more hands and seeing more flops but oh was I so wrong. I still managed to make good money by outplaying my opponents after the flop but I was doing it wrong. I was too loose without enough aggressiveness.

So, I was playing at some tables when I thought it would be fun to raise almost every hand. I raised/reraised many pots and took down lots of small pots and lost a lot of small pots, but when I finally had a hand, I get people calling me down with all sorts of ridiculous hands. For example:

Gotta love it when they are almost drawing dead.
Hand #1

Hand #2
I especially love this last one, I mean, my aggressive play really got to him.
Hand #3

I love this new style of play, I have increased to almost 22BB/100 hands through about 4000 hands. Thats about a 4BB/100 jump through 1000 more hands from my 3000. This new style is very volatile and if played wrong can cost a lot of chips. I still have some kinks to work out of my game, but I think I have adapted greatly and can officially say I'm crushing the games now. I will probably have to play another 10K hands at this level before I reach my goal of $625 dollars and move up to the $0.10/$0.25 NL games.

This style of playing has made poker more fun and profitable.