Changing my PF

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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. May 05 2009 20:10. Posts 15163

I watched some Loose-ish NL200 vids on Pokerstrategy and I decided to start altering my PF betsizing.

All positions but blinds: 3BB+XBB

I decided to tighten up UTG and UTG+1, mucking even ATo and mixing low sc only very very rarely or when the games get deep. I was playing way too many of them before and the KTo kind of hands cost me more than won me.

I am very confident in my flop play and I feel I have an edge over the vast majority of the limit, thus 3BB+X even on 9 tables.
LP I want to get called because of position and my edge.
EP I want to get called because I play only premiums.

Blinds
SB- I raise to 5BB if I am first in. I don't want people to be calling and when they do I want larger pot for C/bets

BB- 4BB+XBB with limpers. I am OOP so I throw in an extra bb
Standard- if sb completes

3Bets
I still play 10% 3bet, but I will alter bet sizing now.

-Standard exactly to 3X raise when I am in position

-3bet to 3.5X raise to 4X raise (0.75 Raise its 4X, bigger-3.5x) +match dead money.
Same as before, I don't like to be playing OOP and it makes me feel uncomfortable, hence the bigger raise.

Yesterday I made a retarded spew session with -7BI when I was completely exhausted from National Floorball Championship I was playing over the weekend (I am a goalkeeper, but I found out that Poker grinder and high speed sport career is hard to sustain at top notch for both ;o) NO thinking, robot poker with retarded play. I still have tendencies to spew like this when I lose stamina and concentration and it costs me huge amounts of profits.

Today was the first day with altering bet sizes.
I actually didn't run very good being -1.5BI Under EV and I can't recall any obvious heaters, but I did get sucked out a few times.

I pick up loads of pots and my red line floated to around +1BI, pretty decent score with 24/20 stats. I made a huge 150bb spew though at the end as always. I really really suck when I am tired and lose focus-.-

As for my learning progress, I am moving to the NL100-NL200 resources and hand evaluation at Pokerstrategy and I I will be more active in the medium stakes poker section here (well here its just about reading really, the spots posted are much tougher on average)

I feel I understand the broad micro stakes ABC quite well and I am attempting to move to the more precise range guessing thought processes.

As for NL25 I plan to hang around for the rest of this month. I hold 6BB/100 as the retarded spewfest session was balanced by a 13BB/100 heater and they both cancelled each other out so the general trend copies today's session (talk about a business cycle lolz) and I feel I can easily sustain it at 9tables.

I will take a shot at NL50 when both these conditions are met:

A) I will be able to sit at a reg only tables and beat them steadily at 4BB/100 or so, the move to NL50 will not be a shot but rather just an easy transition as was NL10 to NL25 this way. I hate to gamble, I like to own.

B) Standard BR requirement: 34BI with 4expected to lose to the initial doomswitch (Happened every single time I swapped a game or stakes ;o)

Thats it for now, Please comment on the PF bet sizing folks

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Last edit: 05/05/2009 20:52

joLin United States. May 05 2009 20:36. Posts 3818

instead of getting a doomswitch whenever i move up, i always get teased with a big heater and then have the doomswitch come immediately after.

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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. May 05 2009 20:43. Posts 15163

Well I had the heater soon after the 5BI 'Your Set/Straight/Flush is lower than the other guys'.

I know how it feels, and I started playing differently and the spew session was partially a result of this (You just raise any two in a heater and rake the profits ;o)

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joLin United States. May 06 2009 01:07. Posts 3818

oh and 5x from the sb seems excessive.

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k2o4 United States. May 06 2009 02:23. Posts 4803

do you play FR or 6max?

overall it doesn't really matter that much on betsizing. you might be putting a bit too much thought into it but I dun think you're doing anything that will hurt you.

10% 3bet is idiotic though =) So is watching NL200 videos while u play NL25, or thinking that you should be in the medium stakes forum now. It's fine to check things out 1 level above where you're at but 3 levels above is very different. hell, look at midian - he pwns 3/6, 5/10 and so on, but he tries the same style on NL100 and loses to fish cause he's leveling himself. Strats that apply higher up don't apply lower down, so stop watching NL200 videos.

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Last edit: 06/05/2009 02:26

rednalluk Sweden. May 06 2009 03:12. Posts 626

5x on SB is just burning and extra bb every time. Also, how did you come up with 10% 3B? If a dude is raising 5% EP, do you still 3B if your hand is in your 3B-handchart (or whatever you used to get to 10%). If so, dont. If you just said 10% as a benchmark (or something) then i like it better but still think that some ppl will adapt eventually.