I was talking about my A game and my new aggression which is indicating a much better numbers than I have ever before, but I wasn’t pleased with the SD one. Today I saw it finally :-)
FT - aug 27
FT stats - aug 27
I try to write some details tomorrow... I really want it to!
My start was horrible today. I made a huge fault for a stack.
First hand at this table, so no hud, no stats, no nothing
First of all I didn’t raise pre flop which is bad I think. Then I overrated my top 2, but why did I call his 4bet on the flop? If I think I have the best hand then it’s a clear all in, if it’s not then easy fold, but call??? Oh man...
So I think there are 2 options in this hand
1. check pre and fold on the flop after hi reraise me
2. raise pre and go all in on the flop
JJ vs the target at the table
He is 41/18/43 but he is not a pre flop 3better (0% actually), that’s why I just called his minraise pre - just for a set.
Ace comes and his post flop agg is very high. If I’m checking I’m sure he’ll bet this out. And this is it. I forget that why I’m here? I decided pre flop that I’m just setmining… So WTF am I doing? Or, if I bet this flop then where is my double barrel? I know I was scared if I do that we’ll be committed so I went to a check/fold mode. Ridiculous.
Same table and the very next hand
JJ again... At this time vs a 26/26/30 guy (only 10 hands or so). Same idea pre flop: setmining. If the UTG raiser 4bets us I just snap fold my hand btw.
I was thinking so long on the flop. I couldn’t decide what to do. I was between call and fold. He 3bets the UTG raiser from SB pre flop so AK and QQ+ were the biggest part of his range I think – and I did have no read about him.
I’m still not sure about my call honestly. If you know nothing about your opponent the fold could be the best option I think… Anyway I called his bet. My plan was to bet out any hearts, 6, 9 and J on the turn if he checks. The turn wasn’t a good card for me. Didn’t hit any draws. If he has an over pair he is not going to fold it I think.
Maybe I’m wrong and I missed a bet on the 4th street.
Then I folded because I thought that he already had me pre flop…
Few minutes later still the same table
I don’t see any other way to play this so I’m good with it.
And I lost one more half buy in pre flop all in with AK vs QQ, which is okay too..
Since I started to play aggressively I have some problem with the SD-hands. I thought if I’m harder post flop and raising more then it will be easier to win huge pots when I have a hand. My wosd is much better then ever before thanks for my new aggression but where is my sd?
It could be too early to talk about this so I’ll waiting for a bigger sample before I make any conclusion.
I had a little off yesterday afternoon when I didn’t play just review some hands and make some notes etc.
I think my biggest fault was that I didn’t choose the right opponents for my moves. For ex: bet from utg with AKo, than 4bet after the BB raises me. This is sounds good except that he is 11/3/5. Of course he went all in and I folded my hand. That move costs me 30BB.
So I found a couple of hands like this. And if you are playing only 2-4 tables, and don’t have too many good hands (in a short term in this case) a fault like this can kill your daily results in a row.
After this I changed my mind and played again. Was a weird session, I wasn’t too lucky vs my targets, I lost a couple of 80-20 all in, so my EV went up in the sky when my green line felt down again. But - and this is a big BUT - I didn’t care because I think that the way how I played was good.
FT
FT stats
This time I did a good job to choose the boards and the targets for my moves. And if you cannot win with showdowns you need to do it without them :-)
I keep losing this week. Every time when I have a break (visitors for a weekend or so) I lost my game and I don’t know why. Last week I’ve played very well and the results have come too. This weak I try my best as well and my stats looks similar but I just couldn’t win a hand. I know, it’s just short term and I’m too result oriented etc.
But I feel I miss something here. Maybe I start to play like a robot and couldn’t see the differences between my opponents or I don’t know. I just stop playing now and try to find the leak because I don’t want to sink here…
Today’s 1st on FT wasn’t as good as it could be. I’m surprised that I could win 20% w$sd, because I felt that it is close to 0%...
I had a perfect position on a dream target, but couldn’t beat him. I won a couple of small pots with my cbets on an A or K high type of flop vs him and that’s it. He won a flip against me (AK vs his 66 pre ai) than a couple of small pots. Nothing special I just played my game and waited for another chance…
FT - very simple session
FT - only one lonely hand
FT - short session's stats
I hope that the 2nd session will be better, much better. I lost about 3 buy ins in my last 2 sessions (about 1k hands) but I think my play was okay, so there is no panic, result will follow the knowledge.
Did I say knowledge? Wow, the NEW AGE is here, isn’t? :-)
I had a long-long session last night. After the first 90 minutes FT I had a little break than I opened up PS as well and play on them simultaneously (2+2 or 3+1 tables).
FT + PS from yesterday
I wasn’t happy with my play on FT at all. I lost too many middle pots. Missing 3rd barrels maybe – need a review! There were 200 hands in the first our when I just couldn’t won a pot. That was a huge falling.
FT yesterday - midnight started with the 205th hand
And that was the reason why I left a couple of tables there and change them to PS ones. When I’m looking back it seems to me a perfect move. Maybe a little bit late but my game was much better after that.
PS yesterday - midnight started with the 203rd hand
This month is not the best for poker. We have visitors on every weekend. We are happy with them, but man this is where my money came from… I need to work more and more when I’m alone.
Anyway, I play less but I’m playing much better than before.
And finally my worst enemy, the ragweed has arrived. So my nose closed my eyes are red and I’m sneezing a lot. I have nose spray that can help me a lot when I’m wake up, but I couldn’t sleep more than a couple of hours without it. And I’m using eye drop too so we’ll see what can I do this week. I’m waiting for a rainy day…
Let’s talk about poker!
I have a short FT session today (40 minutes or so) and A game again! No big hand, no big moves but 25.2/24.4/40+ (Agg%) stats again, good cbets and 3bets, I like this.
Since we started this whole group coaching with Steve and the other guys I feel that this is the best thing for me. Our coach is talking about aggression, 3bets, 4bets, cbets… these are the weakest parts of my game, worth every minutes for me!
A little bit later I started to play on PS. Almost the same A game, but interesting how different it was again. I made a couple of mistakes (in 20-50 BBs pots) and that’s it. There weren’t too many good table for me (I still don’t play on those 20-50bb tables, I just hate them), so next to my 2 PS tables I opened up 2 FTs too. And again the game was mine on those 2. I think I need to play more on PS to be better on it.
Full Tilt
FT
FT sessions
FT stats
Pokerstars
PS
PS stats
I know these are small sample sizes again but 2 or 3 tables, not just 5 minutes or so… And sooner or later a lot of small samples will give us a huge one :-)
...too long actually. I’ve played more than 145 minutes and only 567 hands. My KK was running vs AA again. That was the 3rd time in 2 days. Start to bore me honestly. And I was 120BB deep again…
Anyway, I’m still a newcomer on PS so this was maybe the first session when I felt absolutely comfortable myself here. And I was playing my A game so I’m happy with that.
PS
I’ve lost 3 or 4 3bet pots on the flop or on the turn with AK type of hands so I need to review them tomorrow.
I started a day with a $827.28 BR. My plan was to hit the $900 and I counted a $20 bonus pack in it.
My 1st session was $43.58, then my 2nd $31.01, so I hit it before the bonus which is good. Then I've got that $20 too, so I finished on FT for today and I’m going to play on PS tonight.
FT
As you can see I’ve played only 638 hands summa, but that means 79.5+94.6 minutes, which is almost 3 hours. I’d like to play another 90 minutes session on PS… That’s my plan. And playing my A game there as well!
Today was really good. I’ve played my A game both of the time. I was agro enough, I had good reads and I’ve played my opponents very well I think. And I didn’t have any huge unlucky hands. I split once when I had a full house and villain hits his miracle 2.7% on the river but that’s okay. It’s just happens with everyone.
I just finished my first FT session for today. I played my A game again which makes me so happy! In August I’ve already played 37 sessions on FT (scoring: 29 A, 7 B and only 1 D – D is tilt and quit)! Okay a lot of sessions are just between 150 and 300 hands, but this is still an hour at least on 2-3 tables.
Bluff…
I had an interesting hand. There was a 17/11/41 guy on my left. I attacked his blinds all the time from the BTN and sometimes from the SB too. OOP he folded always but from the BB his 3bet vs SB is 50%.
I usually 4bet as a bluff from BTN vs CO, I don’t remember a hand where I did this from oop in a blinds war with a hand like this. I just thought that this is a good spot to try something new. His 3bet was small enough for me to make a light 4bet (I mean under 20BB). Easy fold if he likes his hand…
He called me, so I already give up my hand. The flop gives me a 2nd pair - which is clearly nothing here - so I wanted to check/fold it. But he checked back and I’ve hit that turn hard. I think if I bet here he folds every worst hand and call or raise me just with betters. My hand not a monster but he never ever puts me on a 6, I’m sure.
What kind of hand he could have?
I think with our history he could have 99-QQ, 50% AK, AQ, KQ here. With KK, AA and the other 50% of AK (AKs for example) he would be happy to shove pre flop. Maybe I’m wrong with this again. Maybe he folds 99, TT and KQ pre flop, or slowplays a monster, I don’t know.
I’m good here vs any flush draws + 99, TT, JJ, KQ, AQ and non flush AK, I’m dead vs QQ, and had 10 outs vs a flush.
I think a check/raise is a good option here. After two checks he would think that I have nothing, missed AK maybe or just a clear bluff. Don’t forget that I was very agro here, especially vs him.
Everything else is just a history now
He did what I wanted from him to and my hand was good enough to win this pot. I’m sure he made a new note about me :-)
I had my second session on Full Tilt. I was playing my absolute A game I think. The biggest problem was the second KK vs AA pre ai today… My whole day was weird in showdown hands. Was a day when you can do anything you are not gonna win an all in hand…
I’m happy with my day btw. Not with the result but with my game and my mental reactions. I was down with 5 buy in summa (FT + PS) but I wasn’t on tilt, I wasn’t angry at all. I was watching myself and I saw that I’m okay with that, I can handle it at this time, I can play my best game and doesn’t care about the result. Not a familiar feeling for me…
So, the second FT session started with the 168th hand at -$23.83
FT summa
My wosd was really good thanks for my 3bets/light 4bets/bluffes. These elements are growing up since the group coaching session. I’m not going to be an agro monkey but I’ve already felt the blood in this. And with more aggression my cbets got much more respect from regulars. Another good point!
FT and PS summa
Results
FT: 12,84
PS: 0
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I was a winning player between 8th and 13th of August so Steve sent me the bill of the first coaching group and I pay it off already. That means -$29.35 in my BR on FT.
Today is a bad day. I had a short session on FT (good play, but my cbets were running in hands), the server was off a few minutes before this so there were just a few tables..., I decided to play on PS a little. Another bad decision... Longer session, not a bad play either but man… I’m on the worst side of Fortuna’s ‘dick’ again. Or I’m just an idiot…
Let's see a couple of huge loosing hands from this session!
1. I know nothing about him (only 7 hands)
Do I need to check back the very draw heavy turn and call a reasonable river bet? Do I need to put more jacks and KQ in his range here?
2. KK vs AA pre ai... no need to talk about it
3. Villain is the target. I had only 14 hands on him at that moment (57/7) but I already saw some crazy plays from him. Later he went up to 81/14 so no question he is a fish.
Just a hand before this we both have AJ, we didn’t hit the K high board but he called my double barrels from oop with one over then we both checked the river and split the pot.
He wasn't agro ‘till this so his ch/minraise was a little bit scary to me. I think I missed a shove here but this move was so unexpected from him, I wanted a cheap SD and see what is that means.
