After the last post I decided to fire up a table of $25NL while surfing the web. Lost a few dollars flat calling a short stack with JJ, it turned out he had QQ and I doubled him up. I was annoyed, but realized too that with those cards and the low board it would have cost much more had he been a full stack.

I finished surfing and this particular table was very slow moving so I started up three more tables but played short stacked ($5 buy ins). Ended up slightly up on each table.

Here I’m against the one of few players with a full-ish stack. Not so good table selection on my part. Note that I haven’t rebought since losing to the short stack. I do so if the table has full stacks or others are rebuying, otherwise I don’t want to give the impression that I’m a better player and know that I should rebuy. Weak/limpy table so rather than my normal raise I open limp UTG. On the flop I want any Ace or flush draw to call against odds, but the table has played weak so I think a pot bet will chase everyone. I opt for 2/3 pot. Then I realize that I forgot that one caller gives subsequent players better odds OOP I should have bet more. Call a weak turn bet that I think represents an Ace, so I play the river as if he has an Ace. What I forgot is what I was representing which is an Ace as well so I could have re-raised bigger on the river. I think an Ace that raises the river still might call my reraise, and flushes will call unless I make the bet way too big.

Next opponent is a fish, playing most hands and has already lost most of his stack without rebuying. I chickened out here on a value bet on the river, just because the board became more dangerous. Flop I flat called because I’m likely ahead and I want to give him some confidence that maybe his hand is good. But I missed the river value bet against this bad a player. What does he think I have?

Anyway, this is more hand analysis than I normally do, but I wanted to try the hand replayer and to cover my session following my last post about not playing poker enough or seriously enough. It felt good, partly because of the up session I’m sure.

I checked some of my stats and I’ve played 40 hours of $25NL (7,400 hands) since the beginning of July. 40 hours in 5 months is not a lot of poker. I’ve played a lot of other stuff; SnGs, cheap MTTs but even in 6 or 10 hours per week of poker I should be playing at least half at cash no limit hold’em, so 4 hours/week by 5 months = 80 hours. Hmm, down, but not down as much as I expected.

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