Hiya!
I played a lot of FR, 500k or more I guess, to get a feel for the game. When I switched to SH I took a lot of beating. Didnt play any worse than in FR I think. Well, when I finally tilted (and this can happen fast) due to bad runs, I did ofc. Have heard others with the same experience. Can play my micro limits successfully now. The first 5 years are the hardest :f_biggrin:. And I play FL and I guess in NL there will much worse swings and tilting tendencies. I say you go with FR for some months at least. Think your overall skill will develop best that way. Gonna give you some examples of how it usually is for me:
Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$16,65:///////;BB$50:203/29/24/1,1/48/30/56/59;MP1$17,55:253/26/14/0,7/56/31/0/43;MP2$41,85:74/24/9/1,3/37/40/100/43;MP3$56,25:107/35/17/1,0/61/29/25/52;CO$13,5:882/40/13/1,7/41/48/20/40;BU$43,65:29/21/10/14,0/60/50/100/67;[/tg]
0,5/1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (7 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.102 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is SB with 6♥, 6♠
3 folds, CO raises, BU folds, Hero 3-bets, BB folds, CO calls.
Flop: (7,00 SB) Q♦, T♥, 5♠ (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.
Turn: (4,50 BB) 3♥ (2 players)
Hero bets, CO raises, Hero calls.
River: (8,50 BB) 8♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero calls.
Final Pot: 10,50 BB
Results follow (highlight to see):
CO shows ett par i åttor (Ah 8d)
Hero shows (6h 6s)
CO wins with ett par i åttor (Ah 8d)
Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero$4,75:///////;BB$53:886/27/13/1,2/42/22/46/55;CO$12,1:239/31/28/3,8/42/46/20/62;BU$16,2:1036/29/22/1,5/44/46/47/53;[/tg]
0,25/0,5 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (4 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.102 by www.pokerstrategy.com.
Preflop: Hero is SB with Q♥, Q♣
CO raises, BU folds, Hero 3-bets, BB calls, CO caps, Hero calls, BB calls.
Flop: (12,00 SB) 6♦, 5♥, 3♥ (3 players)
Hero bets, BB calls, CO calls.
Turn: (7,50 BB) 7♣ (3 players)
Hero bets, BB calls, CO calls.
River: (10,50 BB) A♦ (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, CO bets, Hero calls, BB folds.
Final Pot: 12,50 BB
Results follow (highlight to see):
CO shows ett par i ess (Ac Kd)
Hero shows (Qh Qc)
CO wins with ett par i ess (Ac Kd)
Nevermind the play, my point is that it's not unusal to lose on the river. Some can even draw to a runner-runner gutshot. Expect these things. TC and avoid counting with runner-runner trips