Yeah.. I started playing poker back at the end of February. I was really really bad. I lost 24 BI's at 2NL to start things off- and things didn't improve for quite awhile. I gave you guys some truly insipid bad posts that I'm sure caused a few of you to develop looks on your faces usually associated with glue factories and paper mills.

I moved up to 25NL tonight. Something clicked a month ago and suddenly I started CRUSHING 5NL. I kept crushing 10NL. Despite a serious downswing at 10NL I still managed to crush it over a 30k hand sample.

Tonight I crushed 25NL for 3 BI's in 1200 hands. I ran good. I also played good- and for that I pretty much credit all of you.

Thanks,

Matt

Thats good to hear! Keep it up!

LOL I was talking to everyone but you.

I'm just kidding.

lol tbh i probably haven't helped you much at all but its still nice to hear success stories from ppl in the micro forums.

Graph please? Just curious.

Good job! Now beware the downswing...

graph plz for confirmations

may the variance be with you.

So true. Unfortunately that "something clicked" feeling is usually just variance at play.

"something clicked" for me as well and I was able to crush 5NL... had to move back down 3 times when I tried to move up to 10NL, but now i'm in the thick of it there and well on my way to 25NL...
10NL has been an adjustment, but I don't think I could have made it if not for 2+2

The thing that clicked for me was range based thinking. In the middle of a hand I'm actually putting all the hand combinations my opponent is likely to hold into my thought process- and I'm frequently right.

This leads to me doing things that get my opponents to do things that are profitable for me. Doing that inside a TAG framework is simply insane. I recently had a 10 BI downswing at 10NL where I ran 2/17 on flips.... So honestly I can see the +EV even on my way down. And that's really really reassuring.

GL good job

You're welcome.