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I don't have poker spreadsheets at work, but a small + on the final day sees me nicely up for the month and, I guess more importantly, the poker points being well in excess of 2k is a good barometer of having played a good wedge this month.
Between a couple of micro videos and lots of re-reads of poker player strategy sections + hand posting in the poker clinic and occasional online poker strat article has hopefully started to tweak my game and the positive month reflects that.
Am starting to now collate some hands together to run through with Lambert in the next couple of weeks. Trying to find generic spots as much as possible which will hopefully remove a few -EV spots from my game.
One more time...
I played this poorly and got lucky... but yet another RF... mental! (was kicking about at NL4 for a bit because there were zero seats at anything higher unless I fast-tracked to like NL40!)
Not me, but made me chuckle at the tables last night...
ChatBoxWarrior had been going crazy over a 60p pot they'd lost "too many lucky **** on this fixed site" being one of the many articulate and well thought comments popping up in the chatbox, simulatenously while playing out this hand.... lots more bile spewing about after the flop... then kindly letting us know all money would be withdrawn to move to another site (good luck with that!)
I might have to start being more moany in the chatbox, just in case!
No updates, just been destroying my body and now needing a couple of days of water and healthier food. At a guess, the terrible diet of the last 4 days will have a negative impact on my poker.
I'll test that theory when I take a break in paper stripping to spin an hour of cash tonight and look to pick up 2 more spots to throw onto the BBV section for Mr Lambert180 to have a look over.
If you happen upon this post Paul, my 8 hands will make their way on to the boards at some point tomorrow. Probably early evening, given I should probably be wholly focussed on various work based presentations during the daytime (joy).
Bankroll £719.83
Very little poker playing since the last post. After the stag / birthday party weekend last, I had a short stop at Gleneagles last week and had no inclination to think about firing up the laptop in place of enjoying the amenities up there!
The few short sessions I did fit in during breaks from DIY were incredibly depressing and made me wish I'd stuck to the decorating!! Very much a mixture of poor play and poor timing, running aces into sets as often as I was trying to push through a bluff and getting called down by 4th pair.
I think I need to seriously revisit how aggressive I play hands as I must have gotten TOO loose and need to rebalance back to my nitty tendancies. Consider giving up all flops with zero equity (ie stop cbetting completely when I whiff) and reduce my opening hands from button and cutoff significantly (I already play very tight in early position, a hangover from my poker career starting at 10-max tables), as well as cutting out turn and river barrels - as it seems people see me as a maniac and I'm therefore going to get looked up by any pair / some A-high hands.
The flip side, if I do play super-snug it hopefully gets me paid off quite regularly for the next few weeks!
Another very sigh night, even though I held back from pushing my luck with big turn / river bluffs and stuck to playing tighter hands.
Maybe I was being bullied, but was getting 3 bet pre and c/r on flops by otherwise passive players and making lots (possibly too many) sigh folds.
That said, playing so tight was pretty much keeping me break-even in the main. The big dip coming after I got it all in on the flop with middle set (vs AA) only for the turn to bring an ace.
With the losses approaching nearly 20 NL10 BIs since my bankroll peaked a couple of weeks back, the mental side of things is definitely being tested! Will continue to review hands and go back over some basic strat articles before powering on through - I must be due a session soon where I don't make too many noddy errors / fluke some pots
I feared it was going to be another drip-drip-drip of a session last night, but a double up at NL8 when I already had chipped up to over £16 from smaller pots was just enough to see my mark a small profit for the first time in several days (inner whoop!)
The second hand of the night made me worry that my judgement may be a little off again, it always feels light getting it in pre with JJ when you have committed so little to the pot at that stage - especially when recent history tells me that people at these levels just love to do this with monsters
Then the other two bigger hits were the one bluff I tried all night, cleverly picking the time the button actually had the goods (doh). They'd opened most times it was folded to them so weren't playing a super-tight range... maybe if I'd braved the third barrel (which I'm trying to stop doing!) it may have got a fold, with any J a reasonable part of my range?
In short, I need to a) stop thinking it's OK to make up the small blind and b) stop going broke in limped pots!
Yes, maybe we shouldn't flick in the extra 5p (though I deffo would cos I'm a big whale). Yes, in limped pots we probably shouldn't be shovelling in money. But.....sometimes the deck just slaps us in the chops and all the money has to go in. This is why we should have a bankroll and be playing within it comfortably, like you do.
And I also like to gamble
Haven't played much at all myself this last week or so coz of work commitments and saw you're little post about cbetting.
In general you can't just cf if you miss and bet when you hit - even the blindest of opponents will begin to figure out what you're doing but what you can do is look at the types of flop etc... you pick for cbets and double barrels.
I'm more inclined to cbet with zip as it's our only chance of winning the hand but if we have a hand that has some showdown value we don't always have to bet. The suggested % for cbetting is somewhere between 60-75% - Any less and you're being too passive and more means burning money. Gotta also balance our checks with a mixture of hands too.
Whilst this might not necessarily be optimal at NL10 (ie ruthlessly value bet and don't bluff) it will start to play a part a NL20+ as the better NL20 players are in general a lot better than the good NL10 players.
GL anyways,
FF
In Response to Re: a little fish trying to out-swim the sharks...: I still wonder if my gambling background is a plus or a minus to poker, but yeah my dopamine-starved brain needs to take these punts to truly enjoy the game!
In Response to Re: a little fish trying to out-swim the sharks...: You're right FF, a bit of me was just trying to continue some nit advertisement in an effort to try and stop a few readers from calling me down quite as light as they were... after a few days of oppos calling me down with air for 2 streets just to spike a river pair, there was frustrated negativity added to my post.
I do try to mix it up as much as possible and have never been a 100% cbet sort of player. I think I posted a page or so back that I was trying to work with an article I read by Patrick Leonard in Poker Player magazine about leaving the majority of your no-cbet to boards with two cards between 8-Q as those are the ones likely to have given oppos a pair / extra equity.
If you have no equity this seems a good rule of thumb to just be done with the pot, but also one to not get too carried away on with some equity eg KQ on a QT8 flop, where 3 streets of value is unlikely to be a viable option.
I think this is one of the biggest core-learnings for cash play, as getting things wrong with the cbet can quickly escalate/exaccerbate errors later in the hand.
Well, after dipping below the £700 mark again in-play, it was another poor start to a session.
Apart from losing a pre-flop flip KK vs AA (which I'd probably been overdue to run in to), I then...
Lost half a stack in the first hand below - where I was obviously always calling, but just had such a bad feeling that I ended up slow-rolling and only just calling before I timed out... some poker 6th sense was just trying to get me to dodge the car crash.
Then in the second hand, I probably played too weakly to be long term +EV, but on this occasion managed to lose the minimum and drew some chat-box chuntering from villain as to how I got off so lightly lol... lesson being learned though - for once I didn't go bust in a limped pot!
Hand 1
Hand 3 - leaving someone to pot commit themselves... had taken this line on numerous hands in position to me: float flop / bet turn / give up river
Very little play ahead of me with a last meal with a condemned man this evening and wedding tomorrow... may not be at my peak if/when I play on Sunday!
Yes, FWIW, I've been seriously struggling with posting hands myself, having been using a mix of Opera and Google Chrome, I've had a number of Pop-under's appearing with Chrome running lately, so have decided to Bin it, and have downloaded Firefox, after another member PM'd me saying they were using it to post up...
OK you get dots for the card types when you first paste it into the window, but when you submit the post it appers correctly.
Hand 1 - I probably lost the minimum here... albeit the long term correct way to play would probably be to jam over the raise? To be honest, if it was a set of Q/K/A I would have, but a bit of my mind figured that this could also be 89 having got there so settled for the call.
Hand 2 - Stationed off to the Donkey Kong play... It's not unheard of see big bluffs from this player, but it feels like, at NL10, I should be getting away here and figuring villains range is heavily weighted to 99/AK/AQ/A9? But then they have donked previously and then given up, so I felt I had to call the flop bet... then the 2 didn't change anything so I stick around... and almost 3/1 on my money on the river didn't seem far off the odds that it could be a bluff... IDK... sigh... wp sir
Hand 3 - don't play junky hands vs one of the best players that occasionally drops down to NL10, because I'm not yet good enough... I'm pretty sure he knew I had the straight as well... read me like a book lol... alas, no miracle hit of the straight flush gutshot out
So yeah, cash ended up nearly £20 down yesterday - bit of a waste really as I think I had a bit of rungood in there, but wasted that by getting carried away in the hands noted above (well, the 2nd and 3rd anyway).
That was off-set by a good run in the 8.05 BH which I came 9th or 10th (?) with a few heads to make like £9 profit (high roller!). Will post the exit hand after this, I'm pretty sure it's a fold and this highlights one of my major weaknesses in tournament play... am sure ICM would tell me it's a mistake on my part.
I'm guessing I could have snuck up a few more rungs of the ladder, but got a bit sidetracked after the 2nd break due to Derek being on the telly... probably should consider using the live record button if I'm in a tourni in future and watch programmes after the game ends.
Best thing on TV at the moment though - highly recommend catching up on series 1 and 2 to anyone that hasn't yet discovered it. I don't really watch much telly these days but that sort of show justifies still paying license fee/virgin fee etc.
No poker today - trying to find the motivation to drive from Swindon to Gillingham for my aunt's funeral and if I get back in time, joining friends for a trip to Bristol to see Japan's greatest export, Electric Eel Shock.
I mean, UTG raiser has been pretty snug and seemed to be looking to ladder, he's never going to be super weak here and the AI is unlikely to be playing much worse although could be shooting for the bounty hunter.
In short, there is most likely a pair and an ace - or in the most lucky scenario, two pairs QQ or lower to give me 2 live outs to get 2 bounties.
If it's a pair and an Ace, one of my outs has gone and the pair is slightly bigger favourite, esp when they rock up with KK.
IDK, my play has been too biased towards cash so not really put any work into improving how I think about tournament play