Morning all,
Long time, no update.
I've played a few thousand hands over recent weeks, just trying to have fun in the games; not really worried too much about winning. During that time I have lost a few buy-ins at Zoom. I think it's largely negative variance; however, the games seem to have a high % of regular players so I'm beginning to question possible return rates. I'm aggressive and selective enough in pots that I believe I'm winning enough non-showdown cash but it's the big pots which seem few and far between. It used to be quite straight-forward to limit non-showdown losses (i.e. the blinds tax) and then profit on the difference between making good folds and making the most of value positions. Entirely possible that this is still true but that negative variance is obscuring the truth.
In an effort to regain some trust in my post-flop play I've returned to the games where I began it all: Heads-up Sit n' Go (HUSNG). Still seem to be plenty of regulars but at least when you get a fish, you get them all to yourself! For example, this morning first hand I snapped up an open 25bb shove with AK facing ATo.
Enjoying these games again right now, and going to try to move up fairly aggressively if I can make a profit i.e. as soon as I reach 10 buy-ins at the next level I'll move up, but strictly move back down levels as soon as I no longer meet that threshold. I suspect it will take a long time to reach any kind of meaningful judgement on profitability of the games but it's good to be playing some post-flop pots again.
Suspect I'll post again in a few weeks and will update on my view on the state of the HUSNG games then.
