To make it short: forced by the DOJ to make the transition from SNG-grinding to play ringgames, you can find me playing mainly 100NL and 50NL (Full Ring) on Lock and on FullTilt. I also played a couple thousand hands on rush poker.

I run at about 4BB/100 after all, which boosted my roll quite a bit. Due to diverse bonusses I was forced to switch between formats a little bit, lately I am clearing this IPAD-promo-thing. Running at 4BB/100 seems to be pretty ok, so from that, yes I am a winning player, but here is the thing:

In all formats I was playing I was experiencing tremendous swings, which I only know from back in the days from playing SNGs. After being pretty much on a heater running at 22BB/100 wiht skyrocking red lines and stuff, I always experience a long lasting break-even or slightly losing streak with a couple huge losing sessions in between. So for me it seems that my 4BB/100 I am running at are everything but sustainable.

That was last week. After starting to doubt that ring games or even poker is the right thing for me, I spend hours in analysing my game to find leaks. It seemed I really lost to often in this whole blind-stealing war, which I probably took too serious. While at 6max blind stealing/ restealing is pretty essential, in ring games it isn´t that much. I found myself 3 betting/ squeezing way too light, often faced by a 4-bet. It took me a while to figure out, that the regs at 50 NL Full Ring are a lot tighter, as I actually thought.

I adapted this insight to my game and it seems, that I am back on track since then.