Worst session – no problem!

Another big step! Yesterday was my worst day ever, I mean in result: - 4,5 bi. BUT: I wasn’t mad or sad at all. I played every big hand as a unique one – no fights or vendetta. This time there were some coolers and unlucky hands. But I’m very proud of myself because there were no hard feelings. I slept like a baby after all.

I’m not saying that I’m sure I played my A game but I wasn’t on tilt. That was a short session (680 hands or so). I think this could be happens with everyone sometimes.

I lost an all in with KK vs AA, another one with my flopped straight vs an agro monkey’s flush, another w AK vs QQ (board: AAJ Q T), another with flopped two pairs vs oesd + flush draw, etcetcetc…

Wasn’t a funny session but I tried my best and I’m happy with it.

Let me show you a few interesting hands from this session!

1. Str vs Agro’s flush



Honestly I think I played it good. I don’t think that I can fold this ever against a player like him. He could play like this with so many hands and only flushes betas me. Please, let me know if I’m wrong!


2. Top 2 pairs vs draws



Any thoughts?


3. AKs vs QQ - my fault I think!



Same agro! He won that str vs flush hand too. But this one was earlier. On the flop I didn’t want to give him a chance to fold, that’s why I just called. The plan was let him betting on every street then stack him off. Then Q came. Honestly I didn’t like that turn card. He is an agro guy but jacks, queens, tens are in his pre flop 3bet range too. The river gave me a straight and because of my turn check he could betting on the river with his airs or weaker hand again (flush draws for example), that’s why I called that 1/3 pot bet. What do you think?


4. Questionable fold



This one was just the 6th hand on this table and I had no history with these guys. I think I lost a lot with this type of hand a couple of month ago. I never believe them and they almost always had me with their flopped sets.

The question is that: what kind of hand is good enough to call an early raiser’s cbet on that flop then raise his double barrel to all in on that turn? Could it be just a draw or a slowplayed monster? Or this is a clear flopped sets? Then why shove it? If hi just call, he has a chance to win my whole stack on the river.


5. KQ vs 25/1’s AK



What do you do against a calling station from position with this hand?


6. And a little one finally



Is there any way out from this hand or did I play it well?

Recovery month!

Here I am! The last couple of weeks were too busy to blogging, but I’m still playing if I can.

I had a coaching session in the end of October – after those horrible days. Steve give me some advices how to recover my play.

My only objective now (in November) is to play my ‘A’ game regularly! If I can then we (Steve and me) can start making my A game better.

What I need right now is a session score chart. I used Steve’s one and made some changes. So here is mine:

Session Scores for Recovery - I try to be as rigorous as I can

E Game – Check results and continue session
E Game – More then 6 table
D Game – Check results and quit
D Game – Bluffing Calling Stations for a stack
D Game – Not respecting turn check raises (except aggro monkey)
C Game – Chatting
C Game – Folding Frustration
B Game – Lack of pre-flop aggression
B Game – Auto piloting
A Game - Use Starting Hand Charts (for my pre flop A game)
A Game – Post Flop Focus: cbetting, board textures, opponents style (preflop range, post flop aggression frequencies)
A+ Game – Reviewing Session


Yeah, I need hand charts again. I reviewed my session and I saw that I started to play too loose from early positions and not enough agro from late. Then nobody respected my cbets which could be very frustrating.