My first proper brag post

This is my first real 'check me out and chill' post because I have made my first $100 in pure profit! I nearly reached the landmark around one year ago but donked off 10 buy ins and then withdrew all my starting capital. I came very close to the threshold a week ago but had some mental problems crossing the finish line as it were and lost a few buy ins trying too hard. This felt like the start of a tilt-induced downswing so I took a few days off to reflect and since then it has all come together with a cash game mini-heater and freeroll final table finish tipping me over the edge. To make the magic $100 I landed 6th place out of 3000 runners in a freeroll through a combination of insanely good luck, bad calls and suckouts:)

I have already started playing some cash games at the next level 2/4 (or 4nl if you want to use forum speak) but these are mostly 6max which is a format I am not as successful in as full ring.  In a recent foray into 2/4 I played a $5 pot and it would not take many of those going the wrong way to send me into screaming monkey tilt! I have also dabbled in 2-tabling 1/2 (2nl) but the problem I see with this strategy is that it is tricky to table select well and there are a lot of regular 2nl multitabling players, many of whom play across the microstakes. I am not sure if I want to sit in a big pool of rocks waiting to be coolered in overpair vs set confrontations. I really enjoy the challenge of heads up play but took a break from turbo HUSNGs because I kept losing to weak-tight players and I had to take a step back and admit that my heads up game is a little too spewy. I would rather work on my heads up game in a regular speed format which on my site is more than double the buy in of the turbos, so I need to wait until I am suitably bankrolled before I can regularly play in these games.

The good thing is there is a high proportion of donks across the stakes on my site so as long as I keep my bankroll management tight and keep working to improve my game, I stand a very good chance of climbing up the ranks. I often open up tables at the higher stakes and it is great to see weak players I have notes on entering $24 tournaments or playing 5c/10c cash games for example. Even better still I have seen $5/$10 cash game players limping in then min betting AK across all 3 streets. That is the kind of action I am used to seeing at 2nl! Oh boy...