Hey All!
After a long time of thinking about it, I have now created my own poker blog.
My name is Kyle and I have been a pokerstrategist since 2009. I started out playing 9-man SNGs and moved up to be a winning player until 5.50s. I then switched to FR cash games from NL5 to NL10. Back then, the games were a lot softer(I think) and winning was easy. I considered myself as a decent player with a solid fundamental grasp of the game. I played about 2 hours everyday 6-tabling NL10. I was about to move up to NL25 when I decided to cash out thinking that rebuilding my roll was easy and if I had done it before, I definitely could do it again.
So I withdrew and left $50 in my account.
Grew it up to about ~$700 in no time and withdrew again.
This rebuild --> Withdraw --> rebuild loop went on and on. It was easy, it was fun and sure enough rewarding for a hobbyist like me. I did this for about a year and after my most recent cashout(late 2010), I kinda stepped away from poker as I was busy with my job and had no time for it.
The horror started...
Black Friday.
After a recent cashout, I tried grinding some profit in FR NL2, 12-tabling it until I had $100. After about a week, I moved up to NL5 and had some downswing. I tried SNGs again, the $1.50s, and built my roll up to about $160. After almost 1000 games, I thought my ROI isnt exactly what I wanted it to be. So I switched to SH NL5 with a roll of $175 and that's when I started questioning myself and my game.
SH NL5 crushed me hard.
First mistake that I made = I played too many tables without some experience in SH. My game was in autopilot most of the time and I certainly were missing out some EV spots. I was crushing the first 15k hands so from 9-tabling I added 3 more tables. The next 30k hands was in complete reverse. I realized I wasnt as good as I thought I was.
My roll was cut in half and was forced to use my RB to refill it back up.
With a BR of $175, I decided not to play SH anymore as it might not be the game for me.
One day, I was browsing through some articles in the site and had an idea of playing MSS.
I tried 9-tabling MSS in FR NL5, and again, the first ~10k hands, I was crushing it. So I added more and more before I realized that I was 20-tabling. Again, I was in autopilot and was really playing badly. I learned a valuable lesson and I certainly paid my tuition. MSS is not for me, IMO, it is not a winning strategy. NL5 is really getting the worse of me.
Again, my roll was cut to more than half. I tilted and tried to recover some of the losses and I found myself having a BR of about $47.
"Boy, do I really suck".
It is what I usually tell myself. I used to crush these stakes before but it seems like everyone in micro knows some stuff now. It might have been an after-effect of Black Friday. The live ones are really hard to find now. 
But I never gave up. When I started playing poker, I told myself that I will never quit until I bust my free $50 capital. And I will be true to my word. I will never quit poker until I get busto. And never will I make a deposit and be a fish 
I went back to my fundamentals and started to confront what I have been denying all along. That I have leaks and I should fix them. This is when I started analyzing my game. I started watching videos, reading materials, browsing forums, reviewing my sessions. I also started cutting down tables. I found it to be more enjoyable and engaging.
My journey begins...
I am currently grinding SH NL2(4-tabling, yes!), and i find it very interesting. I am discovering my leaks and boy they are a lot! Currently I am doing OK. I'll be using a 30 BI rule and 5 BI shot to the next. I currently have about $79 in my account and I need $6 more to take a shot at NL5 and move back down if I get to $60. Here is my graph so far:
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Stats:
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My database got corrupted and I am missing about 5k hands or so with about ~$10 in profit. So far, NL2 has been very easy and I am eager to get back to NL5 to teach those nit bitches some lessons. LOL.
Thank you for having the patience of reading my long post. Like poker, your patience is greatly rewarded...
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See yah all!
