Daily Update - Tues 12/09/17
Hours Played:
9
Profit:
$909
Notes: A good day today. In all areas. Have had a slack start to the week and had a lot of volume to put in today. I was shooting for 10 hours but was fairly happy with 9 hours. Also played one of the bigger hands of my career today. Was pumped af after the session so I got a quick workout in after the 9 hour grind. Quick back/shoulds/triceps circuit to get the blood flowing after taking the last two days off working out.
Hand 1 - VARIANCE REDUCTION
I played this hand poorly. There is a better, lower variance way of playing this hand.
I post first hand at table in CO $5 w K7o, goes 4-5 way to flop.
Flop: Q56r
Checks through
Turn: 8o
Checks to me, I bet 2/3 pot, two callers
River: 6o
Checks to me, I bet 65% pot, one caller, I muck
Notes: I don't hate the way I played the hand. We turn a lot of equity although I don't think our bet on the turn really has much fold equity. On the river I expect the bluff to work sooooooooometimes but maybe no one folds an 8 and people can still have Qx.
I think we can exploitatively bet like 25% pot on the turn to "price in" our draw. Or who prefers checking back and taking the free card? I think checking back is probably best in terms of EV and variance reduction. Because when we bet we often have to fire river like we did not knowing how much fold equity we actually have. I'm trying to get into the habit of "making a hand" and THEN betting - because we just have ****all fold equity in live poker. Online you can just bet 1.5x pot and go crazy but we're just not pulling that trigger here in a live game. Obv you wouldn't bet 1.5x pot online, but the point is it's never as multiway and if it's HU we have a much better river bluff.
Hand 2
1 limp, hero opens AKo UTG+1 to $25, 5 callers.
Flop $150: AJ4hh
Hero cbets $85, CO calls, UTG calls.
Turn $405: 3hhcc
Hero bets $225, CO calls very quickly, UTG folds
River $855: Ko
Hero shoves $465, CO snapcalls and we scoop a $1,785 pot vs AJ.
Notes: Flop we have to cbet obv. Turn, not loving life because we get called in two places on the flop but IMO we have to bet again since there's plenty of draws we can still get value from and we're just never check folding here. Interesting that CO snapcalls turn, I expect him to have a flush draw very often which is why it's quite surprising he had what he did. River with 0.5 SPR, we're never check folding, kind just have to stick it in. Don't really hate it actually because realistically, villain probably raising sets and AJ earlier and the only hand that gets there is QThh. Hated life when I got snapcalled OTR but lol at seeing that hand.
Kinda funny because villain berates me for the rest of the night for "hitting a 3 outer" - like dude, you can still fold river. And he should imo. I have top and middle set, top two, and QThh - and absolutely no bluffs on the river. Why tf is he snapcalling what a phish.
Full Results & Graph:
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?...7C8876B842!334 - Don't think giraffe is updating properly, will check in on it again in a couple days.