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I played a staggering number of micro hands starting early last summer through this spring. I really enjoyed the stress free pummeling and whoring at .50/1 and made a remarkable amount of money by taking advantage of all the intro bonuses at all the party skins and many other sites as well.

As those intro bonus opportunities dried up and my game got much beter I realized I was leaving too much money on the table for my time. The ridiculous cost of a second child starting in daycare made me take my poker time more seriously and I've been inching my way up since the late spring.

Knowing I needed to improve my SH play in order to move up successfully I played about 20K 1/2 6mx hands late spring/ early summer and somehow eked out a profit (with massive amounts of help from quercus, death donkey and titlaholic, you guys are the best!)

Mid summer I moved back to full ring and have recently played about 10K 2/4 full hands. Currently I'm whoring 2/4 4-tabling and starting to play 3/6 full while 2 tabling between reloads. I admit I play 2/4 on the auto-pilot side but when I play 3/6 I actually concentrate, work on reads and try to improve my game.

The only problem I have right now is that I don't play enough hands. Only about 4K this month. I need to find more motivation and time (vacation and surgery set me back but I still feel like a slacker)

6-max made me a better player but was awful swingy. I left because it was making me hate poker. Many of you remember my tiresome bitching I'm sure. I left 6-max but not for good. I still hit it occasionally when I need to get a lot of hands in fast to beat a bonus deadline. I will continue to dabble in 6-max as it certainly helps my full ring and I'm sure that's where the money is at higher limits. If I ever get over myself and stop caring about the swings so much I'll probably try to make a go of going up the six max ladder. 6-max is such a difficult game to see the longrun in. 10k breakeven hands is two months of playing for me and within that are massive ups and downs. It seems like it would be easier if you were playing it full time so the longrun would approach more quickly but then again I have no clue. It's probably just more intensely difficult the more hours you play. Entity and DD are certainly much tougher than I am. Seeing you guys succeed has been very ispiring. I just wish I had your stones!