NLHE Shorthanded 5 Max

It been a while since I have actually played poker so I figure why not update the old blog. I have given myself a challenge of learning short handed NLHE. I almost exclusively played Full Ring over the last 4 years and I always wanted to play SH but wasn't able to open up my game enough while I was learning.

So my challenge was to play 10k hands at bwin's 5 max tables before moving up. I deposited $400 for this and I said I will only move up to NL50 if I show a profit and have a decent understanding of the short handed game. I also cleared a PSO promo for $150 and am almost 35% done a 8x Ongame bonus of $250.

Here is a graph of my last 10k hands. I was 6-7 tabling for the most part and the downswing at the end was in about 1 hour of playing just before I typed this.



Things have gone relatively well, the play is pretty atrocious at these limits so its not saying much that I actually beat the games. I ran at 6.25 PTBB/100 and they say anything over 5 is good enough to move on so I think I will.

I will play another 10k hands at NL50 before the end of December and then reevaluate in the new year. If I go on anymore than a 5-6 BI down swing I will probably move back down and reevaluate. I made about five NL50 BI's in profit so I will let it ride so to speak.

I will also invest in Poker Tracker 3 or Holdem Manager as soon as they are more stable with Ongame's software. I haven't been using a HUD but I think I will need one since I plan on playing 6 tables at a time. I have been using a Bet Pot script as well over the past 10k hands and it makes things a lot easier to multi-table as it saves me 1 sec every action almost.