Best Week of Cash Games EVER!

Well, the title pretty much sums it up. I played on two computers, so I don't have all the info here, but basically I won 15 PT bb/100 (30 big blinds) per 100 over about 5,000 hands at 1/2 NL. I have been buying in short stacked and crushing the games. I think it has been so profitable for several reasons:

1. A bit of luck. I have had some back luck (KK ties QQ, AA loses to KK twice, flopped two pair loses to a rivered set, etc.), but naturually I have had less bad luck than normal.

2. Players think I am bad because I buy in short stacked. They think I don't have much money, or am playing higher limits than normal, etc. Then they don't give me credit for being able to put any thought into the game. Some of the hands people call me with are crazy!

3. I play with 30 big blinds - they play as if I have 100 big blinds. Opponents incorrectly play speculative hands against me (low suited connectors, low pairs, etc.). If we both have 100 big blinds, these plays can be correct. But when I only have half that, it usually is not, since the implied odds for the villain are not there.

4. I can play more aggressively with strong hands without worry of really tough river decisions. If a scare card hits the river but I only have $30 left with a pot of $60, I can call without much regret. If I face a bet of $75 when the scare card hits and the pot is only $60, then I have a horribly tough decision that I could (and have) easily screw up.

I don't expect the streak to continue, but I will ride it out as long as possible.

I might post about my 2007 goals tomorrow.

New baby

Sorry for the lag between posts. It was the end the semester which is always busy, and then on December 19th my wife and I had our baby.

I have played quite a few cash games in short bursts recently. Mainly, I am playing NL holdem. I am playing full buy in NL holdem and playing quite LAGGY pre-flop with decent results. First, I take down quite a few pots PF, players can never put me on a hand, and some players think I am also a maniac post-flop (which I am not). This all results in making decent money postflop. I am also playing some of the cap NL games at full tilt where the most you can win or lose in a hand is 30 big bets. When there are not many of those I just buy into a game for 30 big bets. The strategy is different there - big cards and big pairs are more valuable, small connectors and small pairs are less valuable - but it seems quite profitable.

I had a 2nd in a (really) small bugsysclub tourney last week, so now I have three of the "round 3" entries for the WSOP freerole. In that freerole, the top 2 players will win a WSOP seat, and I have one buyin and 2 rebuys for it. I won my 2005 WSOP ME seat through that freerole in September 04 and tend to play well vs. bugsysclub players, so I am looking forward to that freerole in early February.