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Uptown . Nov 28 2008 08:52. Posts 3557 | | |
Day 2, PT3 says it was roughly 7 hours and 4k hands.
First "running real bad" day of my short poker career w00t! I almost feel like I'm part of the gang now hahaha  .
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A lot of people have suggested that I should really open up my preflop hand selection more, and after looking at yesterday and today's sessions, I can't agree more. As expected I have almost 'too' much respect at the table, and the lack of action is most likely inducing betting patters postflop that are either just bad decisions outright, or are chasing the profit too hard and making the villians fold rather than stay in. Towards the end of the session though for the last ~500 hands or so, I opened up a lot more from CO and BU, just going for blind steals really aggressively. It's a direction I'll follow tomorrow as well, since even though the overall results don't show it, I felt like the overall gameflow was much more positive. Anyways, I'll take you through today's events if you so care.
Session 1
Just a lil up and down, got hit by a few suck outs, got some good hands, etc. Ubernitty 7-8 table play at this point. I quit the session about $1.2 down to go have dinner. Nothing mucchhhh to say tbh (plus, I tend to not remember what happened by now haha!).
Session 2
During the second session, most things were teh same as session 1. A slow grind upwards, usually winning the small'ish pots but losing the big ones, story of my poker life yay! (I bet it relates directly to my nittiness). At the very end I caught two huge suckouts to put me about +$8, which prompted me to msg someone on aim saying "it's a sign I should quit now!!". And boy was I right! A short while later I had lost a bi or so and was basically breakeven for the day. Which is perfectly fine with me. Went downstairs for a few hours to take care of some paperwork I had to do.
Session 3
EPIC DOWNSWING TIME BABY!! I really feel like I played most of the hands well, with a handful of exceptions where I was clearly being too aggro betting each street hard to no avail. It's really a huge flaw of mine to win a bunch of small pots c-betting, then give up like 10x those pots in one epic fail attempt. However, the majority of the losses came through suckouts or just being beat, like having KK vs AA, and actually having TPTK/TPGK with AK/AQ on the flop, shoving, and the opponent having AA. Happened twice in an hour span which finally convinced me this is a sign to quit hahaha. The ratio of suck outs suffered to just being beat was roughly 1:1 iirc.
Wheeeeee!
I believe I am down 8bi's for the day yay~. But honestly I'm really not that disappointed, or frustrated. OK I lied there, of course it's frustrating to one degree or another. But I've seen from today that I need to loosen up more from LP, need to really be prudent about my postflop play and really talk myself over why I doing what I am, what I'm representing with the hand, etc. It's something that I can't do 7-8 tabling, and the last few hours of the day I was strictly 4-5 tabling and my brain's level of information crunching was much much better. So basically in the end I've learned the hard way (i suppose?) what you guys told me right off the bat: "reduce the table #s, and loosen up from late position". Righty-o!
It's encouraging for me, despite these losses, that I haven't gone on full tilt. I'll usually facepalm myself and let out a "argh", and that's that. I can live with being beat. I can live with being suckered. But I can't stand making shitty decisions. And today, I felt like I mostly made good decisions. I really can't help it when I push the flop with a set of 5's on a 235rainbow board and the villian shows A4o can I, or in the aforementioned case of having AK/AQ against AA on the flop. He very well may have had KK, who knows. Well maybe if I were a better player i could have known, but hey you get the jist. I guess these are what pple refer to as 'coolers' right? (sorry I'm pretty weak on the pokerz linguo here) I'm pretty okay with them, and I'm really being truthful here, not lying to myself or anything like that. It's part of the game, Overall I'm making good decisions, and I just have to work at becoming better. Well, not really sure where to work on or how to go about 'getting better' (such a vague phrase), but it's a process for sure.
An AF of 7.5 points to postflop spewing in situations where c-betting/doublebarreleing just isn't the right move. Shoving on marginal but strong hands is probably terrible too. And I need to be able to discern situations where I'm semibluffing the river or valuebetting the river. Overall, lotsa stuff to work on, and I think the two main things will be preflop loosening up from CO/BU, and tightening up postflop, as well as really focusing on the dynamics of the table/boardtexture by reducing my table count to a maximum of 5 at once. I also need to figure out the process of getting the most out of the nuts, since I probably kick the villian out of the hand too often. Hm.
I really should look through the huge loss hands and figure out whether they were just bad beats, or whether I fucked up. But right now it's 5:30am and it would be really quite depressing to do so, so hopefully I can make myself tomorrow when I wake up!
Better luck tomorrow I guess!
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maryn Poland. Nov 28 2008 09:25. Posts 1208 | | |
end looks like tilt
ur wins w/o showdown suddenly raised i assume u started to 3 barrel or shove with marginal hands not a best approach on nl5 |
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genjix China. Nov 28 2008 11:14. Posts 2677 | | |
stop playing 6max. FR is less volatile since you see more hands and the action isn't as forced as much.
TPTK is not a fantastic hand. I'm laying it down often. Sure they could be bluffing but the small chance that they aren't makes it -EV |
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