Welcome to Episode two, Call PFR has been bringing me profits in the past, but last 10 days the graph looks like this:
How come I was making profits before and suddenly half of my loses are from call PFR?
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10 days BEFORE the downswing:
A big chunk of this will account on the setup differences, as you can see in much lower profits from 3 of a kind and flushes.
Some money can be leaking from High card, although I expect it to be because of missed draws mostly.
So what we will be our main focus will be the ever killing one pair hands when called PFR.
Section A: Pocket Pairs
The Graph: 
Small Pocket Pairs 22-99
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I WAS NOT SET-MINING PROFITABLY!
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The General Pattern: I overplay Small PP!
I was laughing at regs who call $4.30 3Bets with 77 and I do practically the same!
I am way too aggressive since I am without initiative most of the time and I try to make hero plays when I can pickup only few reads since I am often OOP and not the Preflop Aggressor.
I must play small PP WAY more passively when I call PFR!
Large Pairs
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General Pattern: I was playing large pairs too passively, especially QQ.
With the Jacks and Tens... I seemed to run into AA KK like always so the pot control approach was good result wise, but I still think that keeping these hands in 3bet ranges is better for me.
Broadway minus Large Pairs
Lately I have been seeing the opinion of calling Broadway cards pre is good if you will only isolate yourself with a better range when 3betting. So I have been trying to call here and there
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Submitted by : LemOn[5thF] PokerStars Game #27838600542: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/05/05 11:47:29 CET [2009/05/05 5:47:29 ET]
Table Gudula 6-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: mwakael ($6.75 in chips)
Seat 2: patatzak ($15.95 in chips)
Seat 3: dannyboere ($70.35 in chips)
Seat 4: teamarf ($22.55 in chips)
Seat 5: DoC.LemOn ($26.25 in chips)
Seat 6: trcafer ($5 in chips)
DoC.LemOn: posts small blind $0.10
trcafer: posts big blind $0.25
Holecards
Dealt to DoC.LemOn  
mwakael: calls $0.25
patatzak: folds
dannyboere: folds
teamarf: raises $0.50 to $0.75
DoC.LemOn: raises $2.15 to $2.90
trcafer: folds
mwakael: raises $3.85 to $6.75 and is all-in
teamarf: folds
DoC.LemOn: calls $3.85
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Very obvious pattern: Calling PF Sucks, and especially I suck at playing like that as I almost never know where I am at, and its problematic calling bet bet shove with KQ or AJ kind of a hand.
The Obvious solution: Go back to the style I have been applying successfully for many hands before: 3Bet.
These spots are so ugly and its so hard to guess exact ranges at micros that 3Betting a ton and forcing villains to adjust or just surrender their PF raise amount is a way to go.
Pissing off the regs and forcing them to adjust to my 3bbet and playing with fishes, therefore be ahead most of the time with these hands was proven to work for me, winrate and table image wise and it is time to go back and start calling with broadway hands when I get to higher limits and can guess range even when being passive PF.
What To improve:
-Play WAY more passively with low pocket pairs when I miss
-Call less PF, 3bet more with Broadway hands.
-Play aggressive poker again, especially with QQ, JJ.
-More Bet/Fold lines, way less C/Call lines
End Note: I am a creative person, a Monkey at heart. I have the edge over 95% of my limits, but only when I do what I know best- Apply huge amount of pressure, annoy people and force them to make mistakes.
This downswing has pushed me more towards peacefull Hippie poker, which I have never been applying before and....I suck at it. Its time to start utilising my competitive advantage, to focus at what I know best and to wake up my manliness and leave Calling PF without passive set mining to others.
EP3:
Defending Blinds
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Since the Small Blind is not 0.5BB, you can see that I have done more harm than profit by completing/ Passively defending Blinds
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