Location: midwest regional casino
Question: Does this describe winning at 1/2? What would others add? Skills? Strategies?
- Pre-flop looking to play top 15% range in tight games, loose games look for hands that easily make/draw to the nuts
- Positionally selective with hands
- Situationally selective with players
- Watching exposed cards to identify bottom of villain ranges for a situation/position and help w/ taking future reads
- On occasion running a squeeze-play, check-raise, blocking-bet, or floating where makes sense
- When getting 2-3x my buy-in take a legit 45min food/coffee break, pocket the winnings, and re-sit at new table with fresh buy-in (1x)
- Try to limit session to 6-8 hours as to not get too tired or mistake prone
Results:- Friday (6hrs): Start 75BB finish 451BB, saw AA/KK, flop sets, and nut flushes multiple times (thinking this is just run good)
- Saturday (5hrs): Sat 75BB finished 232BB, played and collected modest pots, session defined by holding QQ on a board with 555 ... villain tried to rep case-5 with all in, called and caught a double up to that 230BB mark
- Sunday(3hrs): Sat 75BB finished 252BB ... played modest and took some pots until it I 4bet all in pre-flop w/ QQ on button (knowing QQ was better than bottom of their ranges both short stacked) ... one villain held AA and board hit hard with 4 clubs to make Q-high flush to reach the 220BB mark
- Monday (4hrs): Sat 75BB finished 253BB ... bunch of 2/5 regs playing 1/2 and it was fast (for me) ... played tight/fast to the 125BB mark ... a tourist showed up who flopped full house 5s over 2s ... no-bet flop/undersized turn bet from villain ... river comes A to give hero better full house of Aces over duces .... hero 3bet all in and got the call to take down his stack
tl;dr: - had a consistent weekend catching fish (with some run-good) but looking to improve beyond just doing that ... what skills/game-development would others look to add? Eventually wanting to reach the 2/5 limit later this year or next.
Last edited by JFS; 05-14-2013 at 03:46 PM.
