Update

So it's been awhile since I found that $100 sitting around. Life's been hectic, working on purchasing some investment properties, so had some trips to Daytona and heading to Tampa in a couple weeks. Just in the last couple days I had some extra time a couple evenings and put in some time playing. I ran the $100 up to $200 playing $4nl FR and HU hyperturbo SnG's. Once I hit $200 I sat at a few $10nl tables, and my God man it's going well.

I've put in just under 7 hours for ~$143 in winnings. The thing is, I'm doing it by playing what feels close to my tightest poker ever. These guys just love throwing in bad money, I fold a ton, get AA/KK/QQ and bet it hard and they go all in with whatever junk they have. I've been playing way more straightforward too. If I'm cbetting air, I throw out 1/2 pot, if I have a real hand I'll bet 2/3 - full pot. Easy game right?

So I'm definitely tighter than before, letting a lot more hands go in early position, not expecting to get implied odds as much, and all that is helping the bottom line for sure. Even my steals have been requiring a bit more hand strength than I used to go for. Granted I'll still exploit high FvSteal %'s but not like before where my button VPIP has seen the high side of 70%. Actually, checking my stats my Button unopened PFR is 60%, so not as low as it seemed, just I'm getting out of the way much more often when there are limpers or late raisers. Which I think is fine, I'm making the vast preponderance of my money from premium pairs, so wait to get those and then 3bet them for value. Where I'm making (or losing) money

So here's where I'm at so far, hopefully I can keep this up. I really feel like this is the most fundamentally sound poker I've playing in a long time. I'm not making moves on people, not making hero bluffs (hardly any bluffs at all actually). I'm folding to most any aggression except when I have a strong holding of my own, and simply betting those good value hands. I've always sort of forced my game into a mode where I'm making moves, trying to outmaneuver the other guy, and I'm seeing how unnecessary that all was.

Let's move this forward and back to the full time pokers!