Has anyone made the jump from LHE to NLHE since Black Friday? I have been considering switching since the games haven't been nearly as good but think I would rather become a tourney player rather than an actual NL grinder. Anyone have any stories to tell of their dive into the NL world?

well im new to both but I've played .02/.04/ and .05/.10 LHE about 15,000 hands so far mixed within both,,not the best player but i've shown some profit at about 1.95BB at this point.Gave 2NL a try and lost 2 buyins within an hr...gave it another go today and after about 2 hrs at the same table and 160+ hands got the buyins i lost and im now about half a buy-in up although i think i have just been lucky ..it is really a tougher decision when your betting and out of who knows where a player puts your whole stack at risk.
I plan on going thru with at least 5k hands within the next week or 2 to take it slow and just see how im doing at that point.Posting a few trouble spots here and there with stats for feedback from some fellow 2+2ers in the future..
oh yeah ,reading posts around the forum REALLYY HELPED ME make it thru!!LOL

I recently tried HU NLH SnGs and quit break-even after about 3 months of study and play. The ABC stuff is fairly straightforward and easy to learn and is enough to beat the micros. It's an interesting type of game in terms of how you have to adapt your strategy to changes in the effective stack size. I gave up after several failed attempts to move up, but lately I've been thinking of giving it another shot.

I think the loldonkaments attitude that cash players have has been a blessing to the tournament pros as it seems many mtts are still quite soft. I'll play an occasional tournament for kicks and I usually do pretty well. I guess what I have the most trouble with is the fact that you can't just up and quit whenever you feel like it. If I could get over that, I think there's a decent argument to be made for playing them full time.

What levels of HUSNG did u play?

Maxo,

What level do you play at? What type of play do you use?

Well, like I said I gave up. I would beat the 11.50 Turbos pretty easily and then lose whenever I tried to move up to the 23s. I had similar results with the STs. This is on Merge so by most reports the games are tougher even at the small stakes. Both game types require a pretty aggressive strategy. You can play the regspeeds more cautiously and secure a higher ROI, but your hourly will be less.

I honestly think I experienced some runbad whenever I tried to move up and could have eventually done better if I wanted to stick with it, but it was really just an experiment born out of frustration with the fact that Merge doesn't offer LHE HUSnGs above the $23 level (and there's not much action on those). I enjoyed the NLH games at first and it was a good learning experience, but in the end I found I just like HU LHE a lot more.

I'm hardly playing right now except for a little LHE on a smaller site. I'm about 50/50 between heading out to Vegas to make a run at the live games or just getting a regular job while waiting for fully legalized & regulated ipoker in the US.