Two sessions today, 8x25nl and then 6x25nl. I think I’m playing 8 too fast so 6 might be better for me. I don’t think that it’s 8 that is too fast right now, but it’s that with 8 I’m tending to not allot enough time with more important hands and making the decisions too fast. […]
No happy about this one. 8x25nl, but I was frustrated at the onset as I had planned to play a full session but didn’t get time when I had originally planned, plus I had to fight trying to hang a mirror on the wall beforehand. Only 288 hands. 13.2/11.0 so those stats look good. But […]
380 hands of 8x25nl, 13.2/9.4 (almost bang on my previous average stats), PfPA of 9.67, so nitting it up from early position again. I didn’t get a lot of hands, especially early on. Here a 29/7/8 flats and then re-raises when I 3 bet. Am I ahead of a 27/7 when he does this? It’s […]
Second rough session, 8x25nl, 700 hands, 15.4/10.1/2.04, PFPA of 6.85, W$SD of 38.5, EV of -47. KK runs into AA, JJ runs into QQ for –135 bbs. but A8s in the BB vrs new SB raise, flop an Ace and call down, he has AQ. A8 is not good on an Ace high flop against […]
8x25nl, 435 hands, 18.9/11.8/1.89, PPA of 5.77, but -32.92 bb/100. EV plus 8.20, largely due to these two hands, both on the same table: Not too much to be done about those, I think. Maybe the KK I didn’t need to shove but the AJ still would have called a flop bet with top pair, […]
Well, Happy New Year. And I start out some grinding right away (after spending the first day traveling). Instead of moving back to $10nl to start up I had played about 45 min of 4x25nl during the holidays and felt comfortable enough to restart at 25nl again. 6x25nl, 372 hands, 13.7/10.4/6.5, though this is after […]
So because I was a little pissed off, I decided to play $25nl anyway. Got up to 10 tables, then purged off the two that I was having the most difficulty with. This hand I’m after the guy who I’ve noted as unable to fold overpairs on the flop, so when I flop a straight […]
Meh, still not sure what I want to do. Played one short session, up a few dollars, but somewhat unenthusiastically, of 25nl FR. Only 14bb(7BB)/100 or something. Basically I think the options are to make a full-ish move to 50nl FR, or to 25nl 6 max. A third option would be to donk for a […]
First down session after 10 in a row up. Lost a full stack twice. Once in the small blind with 33, flopping a set in a limped pot, losing to a set of 7s. The other one hurt a bit more, flopping a set of 5s against AA, getting it all in on the flop, […]
Thought I was finally going to have a down session. Had a hard time finding loose tables with decent stacks and not huge wait lists at both sites. First big hand at Stars was flatting a small 4 bet IP with QQ and getting it in on a KQx monotone board, only to find out […]
I’m up to 8,456 hands of 25nl on Stars now since Sept 1, playing a paltry total of 23.4 hours, running a ridiculous 20 bbs/100 and averaging $18.66 per hour. Last three one hour sessions I was up $77, $34, $55, and that’s with a couple tables from Tilt mixed in (which finally had an […]
I have trouble calling raises. Here I actually told myself out loud, “you have to call a tight player with almost anything.” This is another tight player, calling me from the blinds this time. I have QQ, but even if I 89s I think I bet here because this hits my range much more than […]
The difference between Full Tilt and PokerStars $25nl is weird. For starters, it’s often very hard to find tables with more than 30% players seeing the flop at the full tables. Either that’s because there are fewer players at Tilt, or they’re tighter. Then they play a lot of trappy plays; opening limping AA from […]
481 hands of 25nl FR. EV of -$ 13.08, but up $ 41.20, so obv I don’t understand how EV works. One hand I got it all in on the turn with KK on a dangerous board but against a LAG; flop was 8J9 and he had AT. I won $ 22.60 but my EV […]
Well, 434 hands at 25nl, -28.34 bb/100, -EV of -37.47. At least my net is better than my EV. VPIP of 15.5, and it was higher early and I made a conscious effort to lower it. I wasn’t getting great hands but I was limping behind or iso-raising from late position. But the worst part […]
A 429 hand session today, after a short 4 tabling session yesterday. I didn’t check yesterday’s stats before but 14/12 and 14 bb/100 over 172 hands, and 12/9 winning 17.8 bb/100 today. I’m surprised by the win rate in both days. In both cases I thought I might even be running slightly negative but apparently […]
First big down session. 587 hands of 25nl, anywhere from 9 to 5 tables, running 13.6/9.8, minus EV of $26 and net of minus $27. W$SD of 41.7. The net result would have been worse if not for a loose player paying me off on a AA6 two tone flop with his A2 against my […]
In 432 hands I flopped AA 5 times, so it’s got to be an up session. This hand was good for the bankroll. I was watching a coaching video today and the coach was talking about having KK and how that hand is an Ace magnet. Here’s an example of it. Can’t do much when […]
Finally played a session today, for the first time in 4 days. And a tough one, if only for the bad tables that filled up with shortstackers. Ran slightly lower than my EV for once but still 10 bb/100. 15.2/8.7, 464 hands or so. I couldn’t find good tables so I ended up only playing […]
480 hands of 8, then 7 x 25nl. 12.7/8.2. On one table apparently I was running 4/1 and hadn’t noticed. 🙂 Ran LAGgier on a couple of other tables where I was getting cards to even it out, I guess. A couple of hands. First one you could say I shouldn’t stack off with TPTK. […]
Only 367 hands of 8 x 25nl for two reasons. One, I looked at my Pokerstars hand totals and forgot that I had played some $10nl and $2nl earlier trying to fix my HUD, and 2) one $25 table shrank down so I had to wait to get on another table. Still, 12.4/9.7, 33.41 bb/100. […]
464 hands of 8 x 25nl. Didn’t really feel like playing, but the television was being used so I couldn’t finish my WII Fit session. 🙂 EV was flat, only winning at 7.7 bb/100 as a result. And more nittiness; 10.5/7.0, and my preflop positional awareness is extreme to the point of being awful; 16.29! […]
450 hands of 8 or 7 x 25nl. What concerns me a bit is how physically tense I was. I tried holding my breath just to stop the lung/diaphragm tension that was to the point of making my breathing tight and trembly and the rest of my body had various tension symptoms as well. Maybe […]
8 x 25nl, 478 hands, still a nit at 11.2/7.6. Got 3 bet often on one table with so-so raising hands and ended up folding them. Had plans to open my 4 betting range but then didn’t come up with a situation before I decided to end the session. Ran 38.24 bb/100 in spite of […]
