[NL10] Day 3.1

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Uptown . Jan 13 2009 06:08. Posts 3557

Gonna just bundle this into NL10 blogs since really I'm fixing my game for the purpose of being in NL10 (though I am playing at NL5).

Two biggest leaks I'm trying to fix by dropping down to NL5 are:

1) Not stealing / isolating enough from CO/BU. Before, my steal percentage was around 23%, which is far too low. I'm trying to get this up to around 30-35% over a large sample size.

2) Spewing postflop. In particular, keen identification of flops in which cbetting is +EV. Also not being tempted to cbet on marginal boards (or even at all??) against villains who have below 30% fold to cbet.

One minor(?) issue I have over a small sample size is raising a ton from CO and then being called by the button with about 33VPIP then kinda getting fuxxored OOP on the flop. Or in a different situation, isolating a limper then having BB call or something like that (this isn't nearly as big a deal as I'm IP so w/e, if it's 3 way it's a coinflip whether I can cbet even on decent flops because it's 3way...)

Unfortunately I couldn't get in the hands I wanted to today (only like 370/1000 goal), but I did manage to play for like the first time in forever w/o browsing TL/LP or chatting on MSN, so that's an improvement. I foresee my sessions to be about 1-1.5 hours, having 3-4 sessions per day.

Actually, come to think of it I have a question. Say you're the sb with KJo, KTo, ATo, something like that. folds around to BU (say 30/10 or so), who limps. What do you do? Right now I tend to just muck it b/c I hate playing these marginal hands OOP potentially 3 way. What if there are two limpers including BU - (I guess I fold here obv if I'm folding to just one limper, but if you do raise to like 6-8xbb, does having a potential 4way pot deter you from doing the same?)

Thanks as always,
-Uptown

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Critterer United Kingdom. Jan 13 2009 09:15. Posts 5337

id suggest avoiding playing marginal hands oop as a beginner.

sure u can increase your winrate if you do play them and play them well, but tbh just starting out your postflop edge wont be significant enough to really warrant the awkward spots you are going to get into

LudaHid: dam.ned dam.ned dam.ned. LudaHid: dam.ned northwooden as..hole

mikeymoo Canada. Jan 13 2009 11:44. Posts 988

If the bb doesn't make a habit of raising when limped to him, I don't mind playing these hands and folding to a lot of resistance. If these guys are limping/checking they're probably not that good either. KTo I'd probably muck, but I think the KJo is playable, even for most beginners. Your goal is really to hit a TP type hand, or an OESD and just lead for pot when you hit. Otherwise c/f. KJo rarely puts you in a position with kicker problems, along with ATo. If you get raised, just leave. Rarely do people at NL10 do that with air.

And I was wondering why you haven't been on msn lately

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Maynard! United States. Jan 13 2009 11:55. Posts 4453

If someone limps on a button they are generally a much weaker player. Many players like that will either call any raise then fold if they don't hit flop hard or they will just call raise and call anything afterwards. Once you identify his play style you can play those hands much easier. You can be raising simply to cbet and take it down or you can raise for value. Like say you raise KJ and the flop is J36. You can bet this for value the whole way.

These types don't typically raise unless you're beat. So give them a bit of respect if you haven't seen them raise before. If they do have a history of raising a lot of flops then you know if your KJ or KT hits it is likely the nuts.

Now I really am a busto. Thanks FTP.