Short session, after returning from a weekend away. 1st hand, 1st table, 3 bet AKs, 2 callers, A high flop, bet, get one caller, check turn for pot control, he makes a tiny bet which I think is stupid so I reraise, he folds. Later I see he’s 75/25/6, watch him make a 4BB raise […]
Two up sessions, even if my bb/100 overall is still negative One short session of 6 tables before dinner, one session of 4 after while playing on a 0.01/0.02 with a friend Up 1/2 a buyin in the first, 1/3 in the second + one stack when I open raised 33, got callers, 932 flop, […]
Did two small sessions, one of 3 tables before dinner and one of 4 after. Down 1/2 a buyin in the first, up 0.50 in the second. Paid off a loose (VPIP 65) player who limp/called QJo, called down a T9 flop until his 8 hit on the river. I paid off his 1/3 pot […]
Down 4 buyins. My $25nl bb/100 is now negative overall for this project. Two instances of having a small pot hand hand myself (QQ overcards, QT in a button steal), but reading the opponent as playing a possible draw aggressively. In one case he had a set of 4s, the other QJ In another I […]
Thought I would be up, but was down 0.40 Didn’t 3 bet pre w/JJ from SB. Opp was 19/19 and for some reason I thought that was reasonable. Maybe I just read the ratio and thought that was reasonable but I should have 3 bet pre. Instead he flops trip tens and I play WA/WB […]
Sunday session mentally much better lost one stack to flopped set while set mining, preflop raiser ch/cl on QT3 board with FD, he had FD and gut shot, hit gut shot on turn with a J gained one stack much later w/AA vrs KK, we both hit sets Bad FP/slow play of AA. Mid raise, […]
a 3 session Saturday. Sessions still around an hour in length First was only 4 tables as I tried to record a video for posterity plus to force myself to explain my thinking All three were not great sessions; all down a bit Ran into what seemed to be a lot of aggression; was 3 […]
Fifth up session in a row since the first session which was down Lost one stack to CO raise, I’m dealer with AK. 3-bet, 4bet, I shove, he calls with AA. As I recall he was relatively new to the table but seemed reasonable. It’s almost like blind/blind and we’re both ahead of the ranges […]
One 6x25nl session, third or fourth in a row up 🙂 As the last two tables were winding down, I was down something over $1 for the session. Then I picked up AJ in mid, called by BB, dangerous flop so I checked down until the river had KQJTx with a 3 flush. I had […]
short 3x$25, longer 6x$25 Short session was fine. No big hands, but all tables were up a few bbs due to steals/raising limpers. This may be a general target of mine; to be patient for big hands but try to steal/raise limpers and win small pots Full session won two stacks. First AA vrs AK, […]
later, 2nd session of 6x$25 Felt much more comfortable, though my VP$IP was down to 9, PFR 6 <- -I was playing like a nit and it didn’t even feel like it! Basically it was a lack of cards/situations. Always seemed to get too many limpers ahead or raises instead of limps. Was surprised to […]
Had another good session of 8x$10, then next session suddenly decided to try $25, 6 tables Felt a little out of place Down one buyin but lost a stack with JJ to AA, both hitting a set on the flop and then a boat on the river Down 1/3 stack with JJ vrs AK all-in […]
Tried a session of 8 tables, +74bb/100. obv not sustainable, but not unmanageably frantic either. Played 17/14 or something, definitely looser and more aggressive than normal, how much was just the cards I don’t know. Red non-showdown line flattened a bit in this session, whether that’s due to players playing back due to the LAGier […]
Made one weird play, flatting a raise w/99, then flatting a 3 bet from a 55/33 thinking there’s a good chance he’s squeezing. Flop comes T76 or something, and I donk into him. He calls, and another T comes. Turn goes ch/ch, river I check, he bets 1/3 pot, I call thinking he still might […]
Yesterday was not happy; too much anxiousness Today, kept getting donked into. Maybe partly because my stats were high on some tables; 32/24 and the like; 21/13 total for the session Made the mistake of c-betting w/low pair into three because I didn’t notice that I had 2 callers instead of 1; need to fix […]
What’s happened is that I’m playing more poker, playing more regularly, playing more focused. Meanwhile, my philosophical meanderings continue, which is what my main blog has become. So I came up with the idea of creating a sub-blog, somewhere to keep only daily grind or daily play thoughts, in note form. In many ways, this […]
