Where did the fish go?

It was a rather strange night of poker last night. I've pretty much decided to keep all my play on OnGame, as the action there is so much better than Pokerstars/FTP/ most other sites, although I'll admit another fling at iPoker would be worth a look.

So I managed to pretty easily this time move most of my bankroll from various sites to Hey Poker, where I should get constant 8x bonuses, and possibly a decent points shop, although it's down at the moment so it's hard to tell.

So sitting down with my bankroll on there, I just felt a little suprised as I thought I'd have very little and have to muck around, or not even play possibly. I could play whatever however, so went about setting up the software and ... well playing. Only, tables were very scarce. The usual 40+ VPIP tables weren't to be seen, and when I sat at one that claimed to be 40+ VPIP, it suddenly turned into a bunch of 22/18 grinders!!! What the hell happened to my tables. It's possible this is usual for the early part of the week, but I'm panicking that my sickly sweet tables have dried up due to there being some crazy January deal that people were chasing like free ipods etc. We'll see.

So my only interesting moment there at 6 max was stacking off AKs to AA, down 1 BI. I decided to play some HU and was running over someone before he hit the nutz, down another half BI, but at NL50. I then tried to seriously look for 6 max tables, but only one on my page looked decent at all, and it was NL200!!! So I joined. I added a fairly loose NL100 table, but was focusing on the big table. I played a bit of this and was up just a little, but would have been more if it wasn't for a decent bluff that ran into the top of his range. I finished the night slightly down, but had a good confidence boost mixing it up and still managing to hold my own.

I'm not ultimately that concerned with the tables yet, but another week or two of dry tables, and I might be forced to take a look at iPoker to see how they run there. I can't say I'm that pleased to do that, but I'm not going to risk my bankroll too often just trying to find tables that suit me.

On another note, I'm more than happy with how I'm playing now. I feel I can mix it up with the TAG's just about anywhere up to the NL50/NL100 levels, but really focus on getting the money from the fish at the table. I've had it easy with so many donks donating money, but am getting very comfortable fishing finding and stomping. I'm certain I'm never going to be the big 10 tabling 6 max guy, but more likely to turn into a professional fish finder more than anything else. I will try to put extra emphasis on improving my fish finding skills this month I think, and start labelling people again as to where I want to sit like I have in the past. Obviously really loose or aggro players I want on my right, any tight or positionally unaware people I'm happy to have on my left. I think this is certainly where the easiest money is, and I want to feel comfortable sitting on a NL200/NL400 table if the fish find their way there, without giving away too much of an edge against the TAG/LAG's at those levels.