So whenever I go on the worst runs of my life by the end of them I am usually questioning whether or not I can even beat the game, that I had crushed for long before this. It's a completely demoralizing feeling, and it was usually preceded by me being extremely confident/cocky. As they say, pride before the fall, and I think I finally learned my lesson this time.

So anyways, after grinding a session of full ring last night, and crushing, it finally donned on me. I had this exact feeling at the beginning of this school year. I went on a terrible downswing, had to cash out like 1/3 of my roll for car insurance, and my roll was at like 300 dollars. I cashed out like 30K FPP's for like 285 dollars, and gave myself like 10BI's at 25NL, before I had to drop back to 10. I had been grinding 6m for like 150K hands at this point, and I decided that there was too much variance in 6m so I was going to grind out the full ring.

Once I got there I realized that full had not evolved anything like 6m had. My guess is that like 85% of the players who are really working on their game, watching vids, posting hands, reading books ext. are playing 6m and HU. This is just my guess, but I don't think it'd be to far off. I only play on Stars and it seems that there are a bunch of good, winning regs at each limit you play. I mean it's obv. argueable how good they are, but if your not table selecting hard it's more than likely 4/5 of your opponants at each table are regs. Now at full ring it seems that the only regs are the gaggillon table nitwads grinding out FPP's. And even tho they are regs, I do not cosider them in that 15% of players that are really thinking and working on their games. I really think that is the percentage of good thinking players at full ring at 50NL anyways.

It seems as if I can just completely run over the table and players just give me their money. After the first three players folds, which is very common, there are 6 players left in the hand, and it is a 6 max game. I will play accordingly, raising and reraising a ton. Except most player wont realize this concept and they will just fold like the fr nitwads that they are. I have had a + red line at full ring so far and I expect this to continue.

I remembered that the only that I quit playing fr is because I got a puppy and I didn't want the hassel of booting up so many tables. Well he's finnaly a little bigger, and hopefully potty trained, so I now have this freedom. I have gotten a ton better in the last couple months, so it was in no way a waist in the poker world. However I am going to go back to playing full ring, 8 tables for now, and grinding up steady winning days, at least 5/7 days. I will play mostly fr, but also throw in some 6m when the games are good. Its going to be sick and I am ready to start that fast progression in my poker career just like the one at the begining of this school year, right after I cashed out for my car insurance. I had 300 dollars in my account, and jumped into a game that I hadn't played since I started playing cash games.
3 months later I turned that 300 into 4K and hired a coach.
A week later I luckboxed a donkament for 8K

I can't expect to win another donkament, but I am excited to go on a similar run in the cash games, only this time I'm starting out with a bigger role, and hoping to run it up to 10K and be playing 200NL by this summer. That is very possible, and it would also be very dope.
So if I am winning consistantly at the fr, like I hope to be, then you can prolly expect some pretty consistant blog updates, lol, so talk to ya soon : )