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Uptown . Nov 29 2008 20:01. Posts 3557 | | |
Trials, Tribulations, Retardation and Light at the End of the Tunnel
2800 hands or so.
4-5 tabling
Day3 saw some changes to the way I was playing. Still as nitty as ever, but concentrating a ton on making prudent plays postflop. I'm happy to much AK/AQ when the flop misses and the guy leads into me. I'm happy to much QQ if the turn/river smells real dangerous. I'm trying to be less attached to my hands, fold quickly if I don't have the goods, and also finding out a little more about how the NL5 regs act in general.
For instance, it seems like smaller cbets work just as well on these guys as a relatively larger one. If they were going to fold, they're going to fold anyways, etc. Esp with my uber uber nit stats, even a 1/2 pot cbet looks damn well like a vbet.
The day started off with more of the same as Day 1 and 2 - super swingy, huge do or die pots, semi-retarded shoves and calls that made for an ugly PT graph. By the end of session 2 of the day, I was down about $5 for the day over ~1400 hands. But when I checked my cashier, it said I was right at the point where I started NL5 at. I was pretty happy to be honest, considering how much I had lost the day before I was still plus minus zero. I saw it as an opportunity to get a good fresh start.
I really came to the realization that while I was playing tight preflop, I was NOWHERE close to tight postflop. I mentioned this before, but I had an AF of over 7!! I was cbetting far too much when there was no way they were going to fold, I was double barreling far too often, and I was building pots on marginal/retarded drawing hands. I had to learn to manipulate the pot given each of my situations: do i have TP? Overpair? Draws? Good, strong draws? Monsters? Do my monsters lose to other possible monsters? The key was hedging the risks and getting an approriate risk/investment/return factor for all situations.
B/c I tend to play well beyond midnight I can't seem to filter graphs properly on PT3 (or is there a way to say "just give me the last 3k hands"?) So i'll just post the 3rd session of the day. The first two sessions were just swingly messes anyways, where it really demonstrates my retardation. I freaking lose a 2bi all'in with what turned out to be a marginal hand ffs. (I think it was like QQ calling a shove on the river when the river was a K or something, and the guy had K4o or something)
Overall : +3.5bi for the day
Won't be able to play much today because of paperwork I have to get done, plus I'm going out to dinner for my best friend's birthday. I won't be drinking b/c I'm carpooling with him and I'm the DD, but it'll take a good number of hours. Hopefully I can get about 1.5K hands in when I get back around 11pm or something.
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Ridiculous instance of the day
I have AK, flop comes 3Kx of hearts, then 8, then K, I'm valuebetting each street, then encounter a river shove, I don't see the boat I have and I fold and lose a 2/3bi pot. Chances are he had Kxo but it's just free money I gave up and I seriously felt depressed. What saved my psyche though was that the very next hand on a different table, someone 3 bet donked into me when I had AApf and he had TTpf, and I won a 1.5bi pot. If not for the mental save of this donk I probably wouldn't have been able to keep my cool for the next few hours, slowly building my way up with good plays.
I really do want to play today to solidify what I was learning yesterday, because I feel like if I don't keep playing then I'll lose the good habits I was picking up. Kind of like my golf game to be honest. In my "prime" playing days I still needed to practice at least once every 3 days or my game would go to shit and would take weeks to get back. (although my skill is a far cry from what it used to be now, haha)
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hhse Australia. Nov 30 2008 04:11. Posts 213 | | |
Good luck in your endeavour mate. I just started 5NL myself one or two days ago.
Regarding what you said "it seems like smaller cbets work just as well on these guys as a relatively larger one.", I personally have to disagree with you. A weak c-bet is just calling for a re-raise or call.
But yeah, good luck mate. Hopefully, we'll both make it to 10NL soon. |
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went down yesterday to 165 but today i started thinking alot about what i'm representing and what they have... was up at the end of the day to 210. sweet! 
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