[TheMetetron]

Alright, so I tried taking a shot at this game full-time and promptly got shut down in about 10 hours (4,000 hands) with a 100 BB downswing. Whatever, variance sucks, I'm a big boy and can handle it. I'll just wait until January to try again and keep playing one or two tables of it when the game looks good.

Just some observations and questions/comments I had.

- First of all how in the hell do you datamine this game? Partymine keeps giving me full tables which I don't want to import since I'm filtering PokerAce for 4-6 handed anyways. I had limited sucess with opening 6 tables in addition to the 4 I was playing and just manually swapping them in and out as they gained/lost players. This was good as I had stats from 10 tables going while I was playing, but still couldn't get anything while not at the computer. I need to come up with a remedy for this before I try this game again so I am better prepared.

- There are so few tables running at this limit short-handed. During peak hours, there are maybe 6-8 4-6 handed games tops going on. Table selection is pretty hard if you are playing 4 tables. Are you guys playing this game doing $30/60 and $20/40 mixed in with some $10/20 when the games really aren't that great? Seems to me like that really is the only way to do it.

- I call down too much against TAG players when they do things like check/raise the turn when I'm holding mid pair good kicker. I also dislike playing a handful of very good players. It reminds me of when I played on Absolute. Oh well, life is a bitch.

- I've forgotten what it's like to play 4 and even *gasp* 2 tables. I definitely have to do it more often as it really helped me to think about hands in ways I haven't gotten to in a long time. I played most hands the same way, but there were a few I noticed I've obviously ben misplaying for a while, though. I need to remind myself to do this at least for one or two days a month.

- Along with there being a lack of games, this game almost seems unplayable during the morning and early afternoon hours. There is in no way enough fish to fill up the 4 tables I want to play at this time.

- To compensate for the lack of short-handed tables, do you guys just play some full-ring games as well? I was really trying not to unless I had good position on a big fish, because I just don't think the full ring games at this level are all that profitable (at least compared to the short games).

All-in-all, I felt good about the shot I took even if it didn't work out. I was pretty comfortable with my game and that I was making at least 1BB/100 long-term there, but unfortunately 100 BB just isn't enough to sustain a lot of the variance. I did feel slightly inadequate against a few of the TAGs, but I went back and looked at some of the hands and realized my mistakes.

In short, take shots, they are good for you even if they don't work out. Also, this game is going to be harder than my limited past with it had led me to believe.