Mixing It Up

I've been mixing it up a bit lately, playing mostly NLHE but playing a variety of stakes and formats, which has been fun. It's probably the WSOP being on that has made me feel like playing more tourneys, so I've played some 45 man and the odd 180 man SnG's on Stars. Havent made much of an impression on the 180 man, but have been cashing pretty frequently on the 45 SnG's. Had a few 3rds and 4ths, and was a big chip leader in another one with 8 players left when I lost the net connection for a few hours ... I found out the next day I blinded down to 3rd - so I think I would have been a really good show at winning that one. My focus has been on being a lot more aggressive in position and building a stack that way, rather than simply playing tight and waiting for the cards to come. It's been pretty successful in the 45 man SnG's but havent had a lot of success with it in the 180's, I find especially at the start people are too willing to call the position raise and arent willing to fold to the continuation bet. Mind you, I havent played that many and the times I have tried I have been pretty card dead, not catching anything.

With the cash games I'm feeling more comforatable at 25nl. So much so that I have tried to take that aggressive in position approach across as well. It seemed to be going OK ... made half a buyin a few days ago ... but today lost a whole buyin trying to play aggressive poker. I don't think I've found the right balance yet, and it certaintly depends on the table, some tables are a lot more liable to be pushed around. I think the key is more practice and being able to mould my play to the table, rather that deciding a style before I sit down and not adapting once I see how my opponents are reacting.

I've also played about 200 hands of $10 6-max, which is a lot of fun and seems quite lucrative. Maybe I was just hitting hands and getting lucky but I'm running at about 70BB/100 hands there so far :) Obviously that won't continue, but good fun nevertheless.