Ok, bigger update incoming. As I already told you, I ran horrible on Sunday. Just didn’t really have a chance, got momentum, overall very frustrating since I’ve ran super bad on Sunday throughout my ‘poker career’. I don’t have all my databases anymore, but wouldn’t surprise me if I was down close to 1000ABI on Sunday. Don’t really want to turn this into a whining blog however, so let’s move on to what happened earlier this week.
Played a session on Monday which had so much potential, ran super hot for like an hour and a half, and had stacks everywhere. Unfortunately that’s where the heat stopped, and I ended up being somewhat breakeven for the day. I also bought piosolver earlier this week, and it has been really interesting. I think the most interesting part was building my own ranges, and try to determine what population tendencies are in a lot of spots. I then crunched some numbers for several spots. I think I got the most out of realizing which board favors who, etc. instead of the actual output numbers. It’s super hard to implement a proper piosolver strategy, since it wants to use a mixed strategy with so many hands, so I think it’s probably overrated to try and copy that. However, realizing which board favours who, and what sizings are the most optimal, etc is a much more valuable approach to it imho. I also reviewed a few hand histories this week, and it’s funny how your game changes so much in just a couple of months. I reviewed a tournament from late 2015, and I found myself doing quite some stuff different today compared to then. Like picking different 3betting hands, using different sizings, etc. I once heard a saying that if you look back at your game 6 months from now, and you think you haven’t changed/improved, you are doing something wrong, so I was pretty happy with that review in general.
Yesterday’s session funnily enough was my worst ev bb/100 session in a while, think it was just variance/skewed though due to punting a bit pre-ante in good spots, where villain happened to have top of range or whatever. Post ante bb/100 looked good again, so I rather take that with me instead of focusing on high variance pre-ante winrate. I couldn’t get much going yesterday, besides one tournament, which was a 50fo bowl on Ipoker. I absolutely played great throughout that tournament. Had a decent chiplead with 14 left, and then started to lose almost every pot. Standard variance stuff like not getting through cbets on A82r, being outflopped etc anyway got to the final table as 6/9 and stacks were pretty equal. I laddered a few spots, and eventually found myself reshoving from the sb against aggressive chipleader (who had heaps) but bb woke unfortunately. Last final tables have been really annoying, but I actually think I am playing very good at those final tables. I think one of my main strengths is measuring how much of an impact ICM has on these final tables, and trying to come up with a strategy to leverage that/really tighten up and reduce variance depending on spots. For example, there was one hand where I limp/jammed AQo with a 22bb stack UTG 6 handed, where I felt raise/calling was quite disastrous icm wise.
In other news, I already went to the gym twice this week, and looking to get in a 3rd one too. Picking up the pace again, and regaining some power I built up last year. First session after not going really surprised me how quick you lose the gained power, but apparently it doesn’t take too long to rebuild it too. I also ordered a new computer mouse, since I am pretty oi about my Logitech G500. Have had this one for years, but lately it hasn’t been as comfortable as it used to, also the wire is somewhat screwed, so I figured it was time for a change. Ordered some ergonomic mouse (evoluent 4 – apparently Hollywood haxton has the same -), which I am pretty excited about. Main strength of it should be the more natural/neutral position of your arm compared to usual mouses. Would be nice if I could have it before my upcoming Sunday session.
There was one super interesting hand in yesterday’s session by the way. This one Is with 75 left (63 paid) in party’s 109FO. UTG had been pretty aggressive so far. Pre super std obviously, but flop is really interesting. Obviously if there isn’t icm involved, it’s a standard call, but now it’s a really weird/tough spot. If we look at it, there are a lot of turns where we will just have to x/f our hand. Also, there is something to be said to prevail some fold equity to get in some reshoves. I’m not sure what’s the best play, I’ve had different answers from my friends, so would be cool if some of you chimed in on the discussion. In the past, I’ve done a lot of calling in this spot, because I have middle pair and backdoor flushdraw, but I’ve been rethinking these spots lately. It’s hard to measure exact EV of both plays obviously, so it more or less becomes a guessing spot. Would really appreciate some feedback on this one.
Post ante winrate graph so far for the year, let’s see if we can continue that upwards trent.
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Originally Posted by Flopping bad
How can you not get laid and run good with a face like that.
I know, right?
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Much love
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Originally Posted by gogitos
Man, you describe so well those situations that i feel like i'm reading my own blog!
The way you talk about variance generally is so close to what i'm feeling about this s**t, that i really enjoy reading your posts. Anyway, those days you said, that you feel like you ran good and you should have won a ton of money but nothing happens, are indeed the most annoying thing in this game. They cause you the thought "If i can't even win on my rungoods then when the hell will i win???"
Keep it up and it will come bro.
Ha, really cool to read people are enjoying this blog. Yeah bolded part is exactly what it can feel like. We'll just have to continue battling. Gl to you too