Session Review 01/04/17
Ended up having a super bad session in LSQ. I spent about half of it stuck in a -1.5k hole, which any live grinder will attest to as "pretty gay". In the end I managed to crawl my way semi-out of it in a standard get-all-the-money cooler, where I reduced it to a session loss about £600.
The £2/£5 looked awful so gave that a miss. In general, the £1/£2 games played really deep which was nice; unfortunately I was pretty tired having had a rough nights sleep on Thursday. Playing tired + sitting pretty deep is a recipe for disaster - not good.
Positives:
-Didnt blow all my money
-Had a really good mental game going into the session.
-Was really disciplined for about 2 hours prior to losing a big pot. I didn't showdown my hands out of turn, I switched off my phone, didn't respond to hand post-mortem sound-bites from my opponent, took my game really seriously - really pleased with myself in this aspect.
-Was super, super alert during this time-frame, paid attention to the whole table, looked what hands people limped in with etc, and raised my preflop aggression ranges appropriately.
Basically the way I want, and should expect, myself to play every session.
-Alack of fearfulness that I sometimes get when playing live i.e. 8 other people all watching you etc.
Negatives:
-Playing tired
-Not going home / leaving the session early enough i.e. refusal to quit.
-Losing that insanely good vibe I had, all for losing one £400 pot or so.
-In a select hand or two, just a tragic lack of any basic hand-reading and going down the lazy blockers route without any critical thinking based on their position, preflop action etc.
Some hand histories........
H1 - Vs your standard LSQ regular who's played poker for years but not very good etc.
Pre 4 limps EP, 4 calls, I complete 66 SB, BB checks
Flop A
T
6:heart Pot £12 I bet £10, V calls, other guy calls
Turn 9
Pot £40 I bet £40 only V calls
River 4 Pot £120, hero?
H2 - Against local celebrity...if theres one person I'm happy giving £600 to its this guy "salutes". Loves to make very large overbets and manaically sized 3bets with 7-2 or 43s.
Pre, reg opens £10 HJ, I flat CO ATs, BTN flats, BB rips £600, I more or less snap call (he had already done it 3x this session):
Flop comes 772 (I don't think I need to continue with this hh....)
H3 - Versus Reg guy thing.
Pre, I open HJ £10, CO flats, BB 3! to £50 I flat Hu
Flop KJ4ccd £65 I call
Turn 3h £165 xx
River 8h £165 he thinks for a few seconds and bets £120 hero?
tl;dr dont play tired, donked off.
have a good sunday!