Daily Update - Sun 13 Aug 2017
Hours Played:
10.7
Profit:
$24
Variance:
3
Notes: Jesus ****ing Christ, what a session. I was down $1.5k after 20 minutes, I **** you not. It literally took me another 10 hours and quads twice to get the money back. I was thinking this would be my biggest losing session yet and was tossing up a career in drug trafficking for a while there...
Then as time went on, I was down about $750, and felt that euphoric feeling I've been known to get when losing... Just found myself smiling and basically laughing at the table and for absolutely no reason. Felt great. Anyhow, still in the hole big, floor manager comes over at about 3:05am and says "guys we'll be having the last hand in 15 minutes" - ****ing dismal. Next hand I get quads, and manage to break even. Obv super nice way to finish the session.
Anyway here are the hands:
Hand 1
Hero checks in BB w Q7o, 5 way to the flop.
Flop $25: Q
2
7
Checks around
Turn $25: 8
Hero leads $20, UTG limper (600, covers) raises to $50. Here I think we should probably just call... we lose value to 78 and flush draws yeah, but are we really happy to stack off here? Maybe I'm just being results oriented.
Anyway, hero raises to $175 and villain snap shoves $600 effective, we sigh call and he's has 88 to scoop. Meh.
Hand 2
Hero opens AA $25 over one limper, one caller IP.
Flop $50: T52r
Hero cbets $25 v has maybe 350-400ish and raises to $75. Now this is a spot where, on the one hand, we want to be XPLO folding here often. But the fact that it's heads up and this guy can sorta muck about a bit, has shown down some weird ****, we have to call. There's a difference between this spot and if it goes 5 handed, we cbet get a caller and then some raises, that's different.
Hero calls.
Turn: 8tt
Check, check
River: Jttt
Hero realistically should go for value here but it sucks when we get raised and tbf we might struggle to get called by worse. Hero checks, villain checks behind and says he has an 8, MHIG. What do you guys think, small river vbet?
Also this is an annoying spot where I think I struggle to differentiate between calling and folding. Like do they just always have a set? Do they raise AT here? I feel like if the hand had played out where I called flop and villain jammed turn and we called and lost to 22, we'd be absolutely livid with ourselves for not just XPLO folding flop. IDK.
Hand 3
This was my first hand when I sat down, villain covers.
Hero opens JJ UTG to $20, call, villain calls(covers hero $600 deep)
Flop $67: 82Tdd
Hero cbets $60, villain raises to $125 - villain is young Asian, has like 2k in front of him, probably playing fairly aggro though I've never seen him before.
Hero calls coz, as per the last hand, v might just have AT or a draw - if any player type is going to have a flop raising range, it's this guy. Feel like just folding flop is too weak in this spot.
Hero calls.
Turn $320: 2c
Hero checks, villain bets $100, hero jams the rest in, villain calls and shows AA?!?!?!?!??! Like he snap cold called after an open and a call pre, obv I'm never ever putting him on AA. The 2 is a good card for me OTT and I feel really good about my hand on that turn and when he bets so small. Think I played it fine TBH but it's close.
Hand 4
Hero opens up TT to $30 over a couple limpers, one call in CO, flop is KKQr, hero checks, villain bets $50, hero folds. Felt like this was a super weak way to play our hand but is it really that terrible? I don't really see much merit to cbetting this flop, expect villain to check behind with his smaller pairs mostly and float the flop a huge amount when we cbet. Think it's okay.
Full Results & Graph: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AkK4doh8PHLEgk6pBpFJrgcokPKM
MISTAKE COUNTER
So this is something I'm going to begin tracking instead of variance, as per a suggestion from one of you guys. Major and minor mistakes, a major mistake being my folding AA on the JJTJ board last session, and a minor mistake being something more innocuous like missing easy value or calling a river bet when we don't need to or limp/calling some bs from UTG. The idea is to compile no. mistakes per week and hopefully eventually see a downward trend in mistake frequency. We'll also review mistakes with more scrutiny this way and will hopefully iron out some creases in our game. Will start logging these tomorrow.
Was strange tonight tbh, rocked up to the casino at about 4pm and managed to get a seat immediately - there was like no list all night. Tomorrow is a public holiday for like 50% of Brisbane so hopefully we'll be able to get a good session in at the casino - might end up at a homegame too; we'll see. Wanna get another big session in if possible - or maybe even a shorter one since I want to get up early on Tuesday (our day off this week) and go for breakfast before midday ideally.
Also I've had my car parked in the casino car park for a week... I got my parking validated after one of my sessions last week and I'm hoping the ticket will work and let me out on Tuesday, otherwise I might have to make up some BS to get out of paying a fortune in parking costs. If the ticket machine works, and we can get our car out, I'll be absolutely stoked because it means I will basically now have free parking for good.