Winning Poker Network Game #693402895: No Limit Holdem ($0.02/$0.05) [2016/08/01 20:54:01 UTC]
Table: (PRR) Cyclops - 13
Seats: 6
Seat 1: Eichel2015 ($12.56)
Seat 2:
hero ($9.17)
Seat 3: McCabe ($3)
Seat 4:
TxSCARxMOBILE ($13.48)
Seat 6: onetimemoney ($8.28)
Button is seat 2
McCabe: posts small blind $0.02
TxSCARxMOBILE: posts big blind $0.05
*** HOLE CARDS ***
hero: dealt [T
9
]
onetimemoney: folds
Eichel2015: folds
hero: raises $0.12
McCabe: folds
TxSCARxMOBILE: calls $0.07
*** FLOP *** [A
2
J
]
TxSCARxMOBILE: checks
hero: bets $0.16
TxSCARxMOBILE: calls $0.16
*** TURN *** [A
2
J
] [6
]
TxSCARxMOBILE: checks
hero: bets $0.42
TxSCARxMOBILE: calls $0.42
*** RIVER *** [A
2
J
] [6
] [K
]
TxSCARxMOBILE: checks
hero: bets $1.32
TxSCARxMOBILE: calls $1.32
*** SUMMARY ***
Pot: $3.86 | Rake: $0.14 | BBJ: $0.06 |
Board: [Ad 2h Jd 6d Ks]
Seat 1: Eichel2015 didn't bet
Seat 2: hero lost -$2.02 [Td 9s] High Card, Ace
Seat 3: McCabe lost -$0.02
Seat 4: TxSCARxMOBILE won $3.86 (+$1.84) [As Qh] One Pair, Aces
Seat 6: onetimemoney didn't bet
Not able to figure out the HH converter, but I tried to clean it up to make it viewable. Anyways, I 3 barrel here with Td9x and bet 93% pot on river. After I finished my session today, I watched a couple videos on RIO, one being "Intro to Bet Sizing", again by Steve Paul. Very math heavy video where he solves a game he calls Nuts/Air vs Bluffcatcher or something of the likes. Very interesting concepts, and again today, similar to the other day with the preflop range video, as I was going for a run I could feel myself thinking about and trying to solve this spot based on the information he presented in the video. This spot is a lot more complex than preflop and so I feel like I really need to dig into this spot, pen and paper, and try to really get into the math behind it and what my ranges should be here for a full pot bet and maybe also a 2x pot bet.
This also kind of leads me back to the book I am reading "The Art of Learning." The book is an autobiography/philosophy book by Josh Waitzkin. He was a child chess prodigy and then became a world class martial artist. One thing he talks about early in the book is how his upbringing in chess (wild park games vs street hustlers combined with training sessions focused on endgame rather than openings like most of his peers) played a critical role in his development as a player. He was able to survive his opponents complex openings/traps on his intuition and force them into the endgame where he was vastly superior and far more comfortable than them. This is a parallel to poker, preflop vs river. So tomorrow I think I will spend as long as is needed to try and solve this spot. I think spending time on spots like this is a more effective use of time than solving for preflop ranges. I can survive on my intuition preflop (although I made a big preflop mistake today that cost me 100 bb) and, hopefully, be far superior in the endgame.