Haven't been blogging.

Just haven't had the motivation. I meant to write a retrospective re. my first calendar year as a pro, but just didn't get to that point. I'm not one that likes to expend too much energy whining about big downswings, and I'm still working on crawling my way out of a crazy one.

Starting just prior to my $12k score in the tournament at the start of December, I've (until recently) experienced pretty much an uninhibited freefall, losing just shy of $6k in around 26k hands. For those paying attention, that's not good. I don't think I was playing that horribly in the stretch - maybe not my A-game, but certainly not that bad - and for whatever it's worth was down more than $2k in all-in equity during that swong. More than that, stuff that doesn't show up in all-in equity, like coolers, beats that hit on the river before the money gets in (and sometimes even more frustratingly, when it doesn't - like when I have AQo on a QJ9 flop, my cbet gets called, the turn bricks, I check-call a substantial bet, and a J hits the river - it goes check-check and I lose to AJo - that actually happened not long ago).

Thanks to my tournament score I still had a great overall December, my best month yet in terms of total cash won, but dropped almost $2700 at the cash tables which took a bit of the edge off my win.

I resolved to transition to 6max this month and have been playing that since the start of January. It's a different game, more aggressive preflop, but with (imo) a bigger donkey ratio and most of the regs are hugely exploitable. More than that they seem more exploitable with my favored strategy, which is just to sit tight and make thin calldowns, which doesn't work as efficiently against the nits at FR.

Still, the month started poorly, with a nearly $2k extension to my downswing before going well in the past few days. My last 7 sessions have been winning ones, and I've gone up about $1600 in them. Back in the black for the month, I feel good about my game again. I've been focusing on shorter, but more frequent sessions, and on quality over quantity, only playing when I'm feeling like it. The result has been only 6k or so hands this month, but I feel like it's paying off as my game has been very sharp.