[Zybomb]

Good post...

~ It seems you want to get better at the game, and move along in limits accordingly. When doing this make sure to stick to a strict bankroll management of 20 Max Buy Ins minimum. If you are playing 6 max and feel that the variance is higher, then by all means wait until you have more.

~ Some tough beats you've posted... but thats all a part of the game. Remember this is still gambling and there is luck involved. The important thing is to be DECISION oriented, rather than RESULTS oriented. This means that every time you made a correct decision, you did good, even if you lost the pot. Every time you made an incorrect decision you did bad, even if you won the pot. To help yourself track this, it's great to use Sklansky $ (a term coined by David Sklansky which tracks the % that you are favored (or not) when the money goes in) For example, if you get all the money in preflop (lets say $100 for simple math) with AA and are called by TT, you should win roughly 4 out of 5 times. Thus you would win $400 and lose $100 for a net toal of $300. So each time you'd get all in with AA vs TT you'd win 300 Sklansky dollars, regardless if you lost or won real dollars. Theoretically at some point in time, your Sklansky dollars should equal your real dollars. Stay focused and don't let bad beats affect you, they are bound to happen (by math!)

~ This may be strange advice, but I'd actually recommend increasing your aggression a little. 6 max is about aggression and position more so than it is about the cards you are dealt. Remember UTG in 6 max is MP in a normal game... so you should be opening all hands you would open MP with. You should primary focus on playing the majority of your hands from the cut off or the button however... and you should have a wide raising range from these positions. I personally include everything from all pairs, Ax, KT+ and all suited connectors and one gappers, and sometimes expanding to unsuited connectors and suited 2 gappers as well... although you dont have to be this wide at first until you are more comfortable playing postflop. Try and avoid limping in in 6 max for the most part. Especially don't open limp... with hands that play well multi way, occasionally limp behind a limper, but even still get comfortable with raising to isolate the limper (weakness). NEVER open limp the button

This wide range of hands is all assuming the pot is not previously opened. If an opponent has entered the pot with a raise, you should generally tighten up a lot and fold mostly. Try to rarely call raises from either of the blinds... for the most part reraise or fold. In position you can call a bit more since you have an advantage postflop, but do not do so with trouble hands (AT etc) and still reraise a lot of the hands that you do feel like playing.

~ When you put up your aggression a lot you'll take down a lot more pots and not need cards to so (be comfortable making a CB a large % of the time that you raise preflop and receive of call. This CB should be roughly 2/3 the pot). These tons of little pots tend to add up.It'll also possibly set you up for a big pot when you do have a bomb (although it seems opponents are calling you down pretty light despite your super tight image... I dont quite know what to make of that. ) The main thing is most of the time people lose a big pot, it is because of cards (funny, thats what we all are hopin to get) Very rarely will you lose a big pot making a positional play or showing some aggression... it'll be when you have a strong hand and run into an even stronger one... or simply get sucked out on

Best of Luck...