I've decided to redeposit my bankroll and start some online grinding again. I guess it is time to see if I have the patience needed to beat this game. For starters I guess I'll focus on the party 1$/2$FL game which certainly looks easy enough. For a pure financial gain reason I guess I really should just stick with 25NL and 50NL. The play on these are absolutely horrible, but I always get bored when grinding NL. I'm hoping to get rolled for 2/4 and 100NL and we'll see how it goes from there.

There hasn't been much poker in my life recently, but I'm heading out for a small live game today. Stakes are just low stuff, but it is a 3-4 FL handed, and all the players are really good so its just so damn fuuuuuun to play in. Every hand is just a blindsteal and the amount of aggression and fancy play syndrome is insane! Since I'm the head honcho poker tinkerer everybody always thinks I'm some sort of madman's scheme to bluff them out of the pot, when I'm really just playing a little tighter than they are. But that works to perfection. Last session I swiped 50 big bets in 3 hours. But in this game you can easily drop that in 30 hands if you start sliding. :)

Today I figure I'll try some defending from the SB w/3-betting and see how that works out.

Apart from that I don't have much poker to speak about, I played a couple of NL HU matches and I started testing a 'dry bluffing' 'theory'

It isn't really much of a theory, but just a change I've had in my view on bluffing. Before I always looked on bluffing as an sort of 'desperation' thing to do, but necessary at times, especially in shorthanded games. Now I just look at bluffing as an option that always has to be considered. Potsize + stacksize + cards + action + opponent = to bluff or not. Also in NL I think bluffing can be used as pot defence in much the same way you'd call down in limit. Let me see...pot is so-so, opponent is a laggy retard, I got ace high..let's pop it and see if he means business...as long as you lay yourself good odds I think its all good.

Actually I think defending pots are one of few things that will get harder in a NL tournament setting compared to NL ring games. Often in a tournament setting you only have _one_ chance when it comes to defending your pot because you're mostly playing short and can't reload. Tricky.

Well, enough. Good luck at the tables.