Damn. This just put me down to break-even for today. Guy sat down and was playing like an absolute maniac. 3/4betting everyone, raising every bet, potting every street etc. Already managed to win a bit from him then this happened. Shame it didn't happen at 5NL
Pretty good day if I ignore the results. Was playing pretty well and I finally feel comfortable at 10NL. Don't know if it was just today but the tables felt really soft and witnessed some horrific play Shame I had to run into this at the end of the session....
Although it's not a fold obviously he doesn't have many 6x in his range. Probably isn't worth raising the turn as his range is going to be a lot of Tx and overpairs. We don't really want to be bluffing him I'd imagine so we may aswell just let our range be really strong and let him overvalue overpairs.
I'd also question not folding ATo pre. I don't even think it's worth a 3bet in all honesty unless he is folding to 3bets too much too.
Even with a fishy player calling OTB and we're closing the action? I appreciate it's a highly speculative hand and I wouldn't be staking off with just top pair etc or am I just falling into FPS?
You might be closing the action now but not postflop where it matters. Ur playing vs MP's opening range and OOP for the hand. I presume you don't have postflop reads on MP or the fish so how do you intend to TID unless you hit an obvious hand which will make it hard to get paid off anyway
Thanks guys. I don't make it a habit of calling ATo in the blinds but I see now how this is a pretty bad play and how my logic was flawed. My blind play is definitely one area I feel I need to work at and I guess this proves it
calling ATo in the blinds is usually fine against someone who isn't a nit and who has opened from the CO or BUT. Or someone who you can exploit postflop.
I raised pre because my table was really passive and folded a to my steals.
Villain is 30/23 so pretty aggro but not a complete sicko either. When he raises my turn bet I need to have 35% equity to make a profitable call. I appears that he had a set and that my hand was crushed but I somehow think that he could do that with Qx, Tx, AJ, worst flush draws. Am I completely out of line? I could very well be that's why I would love to hear your thoughts.
Pretty easy to blame runbad on my cash graph, but my showdown line is extremely sh*tty as well. I'm not sure if that accounts for all hands at showdown or just river calls, but yeah, I'm a showdown monkey and it's something I've been working on. The huge dip in my HUSNG graph is purely tilt. Something else I have been working on lol. I only played 5 HUSNG's on Sat or Fri b/c of tilt, so I would say I'm making progress on it
Hero shows A K (Two Pair, Kings and Twos) (Pre 43%, Flop 87%, Turn 95%) BTN shows Q Q (Two Pair, Queens and Twos) (Pre 57%, Flop 13%, Turn 5%) Hero wins $4.32
h2: Looks like i spewed this one. Auto reload wasn't on so it's insta fold pre.
Is overbetting the river fine? He doesn't show much strength with his line.
h3: Not sure if i should be raising this flop. I watched a video where coach suggested to call donk bets down. iPoker - $0.05 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
HU4hoes, do you plan on playing a lot more online now or still just doing it when bored at home?
Also, note to self and those that are reading.
Do not play when tired, or when you've only just woken up.
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Thankfully my afternoon session was better.
Still down for the day, but to an amount that I can feel happy with.
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I think one thing which I've REALLY improved upon is my ability to have losing sessions. If I booked a -1 BI session, I'd be really pissed off with myself and coax myself into playing more hands to try to make it back, which in turn gave me the whole "gotta win as quickly as I can" mentality, which resulted in a lot of bad decisions.
These days that has changed. This mornings -5BI session still hit me a little, but I was happy with how I played in some of the larger pots. Sometimes people will make calls against you where the only thing they beat in your range is a bluff, on the one time that you do actually have a bluff, but I rest easy these days knowing that long term I'll be making money when they call me and I have them crushed.
There's more I'd like to improve on my game though. Generally my thinking has improved a lot, my hand reading is really improved dramatically. One thing I can see myself draining away my winrate is when I'm facing a 3bet. I tend to call too frequently, to fold to too many flop cbets.
If I'm unsure what someone's range is, and how it transpires on certain flops against my range, then there's a good chance that I'll need to tell myself that folding preflop is the better option. While it might result in me folding 70+% to 3bets, I don't mind doing so if I'm losing less bb's from folding than I am from calling.
Also, spotted oop u mad at the tables today. Said a quick hello.