Shortstacking Speed Poker

Kinda got bored/fedup with playing DoNs... as everybody whose played DoNs knows they could be a pretty boring game

Plus i had taken a pretty bad downswing at them so i decided to mix it up a lil bit

Right now I'm a slight winner post RB and stuff, due to my downswing 

I played a few MTTs for fun also

1 night i registered in a $1 R/A tourney with like 70 people in it..i registered for it while i was in bed and figured it just end up playing dumb and tired and bust away my stack in like 15 minutes. I ended up grinding a big chip stack and made it to the final table like 3rd in chips. When there were 5 left i was chipleader with about 90k and average was like 55k, i ended up losing 70k in chips one hand due to a semi bluff on the turn with a flush draw i believe.

First place only got $49.80 which is really little considering i was playing $10-20 DoNs. Yet i managed to end up grinding back a good stack and ended up winning the tournament for the $49.8 lol (so about a 50buyin cash, sure as hell helps my average ROI)

I also got like 50th in a 700 person $5 R/A which was good for like $30....i was about 15th in chips when i busted on a river bluff with a missed flush draw, the guy called me with a pretty weak hand, he was chasing like a K high flush vs my A high flush draw and rivered a K so I figured he would have folded there

But ya, so basically I've decided to give speed poker a shot, you can get a ton of hands in and action is quick and exciting so its been pretty fun...I've been shortstacking because I figured swings wouldnt be as high and Id have more edge, its nice being able to leave the game after doubling up and then instantly rejoin with whatever stack size you want

I had started out at 10NL figuring I havent played cash games in a long time and it might take some getting used to. I wasnt playing terribly at first but i wasnt playing well, my non-showdown winnings were terrible and my blind play was really bad also. Around hand 6000 a friend of mine who only plays cashgames game me some simple advice to helpout my nonshown winnings and my blind play. My first session after the advice I killed it but then kind of pissed away some of my winnings, Ive ran pretty damn bad lately, about 8buyins under EV, which is quite a lot considering i was never really playing deeper than 40-50bb

Heres my graph for total winnings since Ive started playing Speed Poker. Ive been typically playing 6 tables which plays over 1500 hands an hour. My EV is about even which isn't terrible I think, if I maintained an even winrate Id be a pretty big winner post RB and be able to move up in stakes pretty quickly