Review of my day off playing poker
I'll give myself a score of 1.5/2 for accomplishing my goals. I did play a decent volume: 5 MTTs over the course of the day, 2 on 888 and 3 on Stars. So that's 1 point. The half point is for the one semi-decent score, a 14th place in a 1.50 rebuy on 888. A final table appearance would qualify for a full point.
The day started off very frustrating to say the least.
1) $1.10 Progressive KO on Stars: Out after a whopping 35 hands. The only big pot I played was the one that busted me, but I was happy with the way I played it.
PokerStars - 75/150 Ante 20 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG+1: 25.6 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
Hero (MP): 18.46 BB
MP+1: 13.08 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
MP+2: 95.9 BB (VPIP: 65.38, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 26)
CO: 49.88 BB (VPIP: 26.92, PFR: 19.23, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
BTN: 86.59 BB (VPIP: 46.15, PFR: 3.85, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 26)
SB: 94.98 BB (VPIP: 23.08, PFR: 11.54, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 26)
BB: 20.91 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 21)
UTG: 19.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
9 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.7 BB) Hero has T
T
fold,
fold,
Hero raises to 3.17 BB,
fold,
MP+2 raises to 5.33 BB,
fold,
fold,
fold,
fold,
Hero raises to 18.33 BB and is all-in,
MP+2 calls 12.99 BB
Flop: (39.35 BB, 2 players) 5
Q
7
Turn: (39.35 BB, 2 players) A
River: (39.35 BB, 2 players) J
Hero shows T
T
(One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 69%, Flop 82%, Turn 2%)
MP+2 shows T
A
(One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 31%, Flop 18%, Turn 98%)
MP+2 wins 39.35 BB
Although it was a small sample of hands, I went with my read on his stats that he was a laggy player who was 3-betting light. I certainly couldn't fold, and didn't want to call and play OOP, so I shoved and hoped he'd call with a worse hand. Which he did. But I lost anyway.
2) $0.55 turbo on Stars: Out after 45 hands. No hands of any real interest to report. I did double-up when I 3-bet AQ with 21bb and got it in, beating 55. But then I lost it a while later after my stack dwindled and I called all in with 8bb with K9s and lost to A7s.
3) $2.50 rebuy on 888: Out after 64 hands. Actually played a number of interesting hands in this one and although I made a couple of mistakes, I was happy with my aggression. Here's one example:
888 Poker - 50/100 Ante 10 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
Hero (BTN): 32.58 BB
SB: 19.35 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 3)
BB: 16.24 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
UTG: 50.27 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 25.00, Hands: 10)
UTG+1: 64.05 BB (VPIP: 70.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
MP: 67.25 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
MP+1: 39.3 BB (VPIP: 80.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 5)
CO: 46.65 BB (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
8 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has 8
Q
fold,
fold,
fold, MP+1 calls 1 BB,
fold,
Hero raises to 4 BB,
fold, BB calls 3 BB, MP+1 calls 3 BB
Flop: (13.3 BB, 3 players) 8
3
K
BB checks, MP+1 checks,
Hero checks
Turn: (13.3 BB, 3 players) A
BB checks, MP+1 checks,
Hero bets 6 BB,
fold,
fold
Hero wins 13.3 BB
Unfortunately I also lost two big pots with AK in this one tournament, one time losing to 65s and the other losing to Q9s. The latter one erased a massive pot I won a few hands earlier and knocked me down to 10bb. I was out a few hands later when I made a loose 6bb shove with Q2s in the HJ seat and lost to A3.