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Keeping Warm in Winter
AAroddersAA:
Played a quick session this afternoon, here are the results:-
Hands = 575
VP$IP = 12%
PFR = 7%
3-Bet = 3.92%
BB/100 = 3.77
Profit = $10.83
I am going to quickly run through the hands tomorrow morning and will post some interesting ones. The biggest win of the session though was $4.63 and the biggest loss $3.
One important consideration of this session, is that I ran at about a long term expectation. It felt like I was sitting there not doing anything at all just making standard plays, it was quite an easy session to play. During the year not all sessions will be like this. There will be sessions where I run way above expectation winning multiple buyin"s and sessions where I run badly and lose multiple buyin"s. The trick is going to be maintaining discipline when it is going wrong still being able to make correct fold when I have too and not making calls that are too loose and chasing draws against the odds. These are the things that seem so easy when winning and so hard when losing.
Right I am off to the pub so everybody have a great new year, get as drunk as you like and have a great time.
AAroddersAA:
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY
Played my first session of 2012 this afternoon. I may need to reassess the volume goals I have set, playing 1000 hands was much harder than I expected. 30K hands in a month might not be doable, unsure on this. It did not sound that hard but is actually much tougher than it looked. Not sure where the pros who play 200K+ hands per month keep the concertration for what must be some monster sessions.
I am not totally happy with how I played although it was decent and I was in profit. I made a couple of bad calls that cost me about $18. Both times it was after I had clearly gone behind after being ahead. One hand I flopped two pair and my opponent rivered a set and made a massive overbet OTR. It was pretty clear at that point I was beaten, but called out of stubborness. I did something similar when I had AQ on a queen high flop and bet the flop and turn after being checked too. Then a King hit the river and my opponent fired a pot sized bet at me. He is not supposed to have a king here but I knew he did and called anyway telling myself that he has not played it like he had a king. He obviously did. Really important that I get this right this year. I also need to ensure I don"t catch fancy play syndrome again.
Hands = 1094
VP$IP = 12.25%
PFR = 8.41%
3-Bet = 3.05%
Profit = $17.52 (about $2 above EV)
BB/100 = 3.2
VPP = 59
These stats don"t look that great the VP$IP and PFR are too far apart and it still looks too tight but I am happy with the game I am playing. If every session of the year goes exactly like that one it"s going to be a very good year anyway :-).
May play a bit later, not sure if I will play cash or 180 sitngo"s though. Will also check for overlays in the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 just in case they are worth playing.
AAroddersAA:
OK, played another cash session which did not go very well. I was doing fine then I hit two coolers pretty much at the same time (within a couple of minutes of each other anyway).
First hand I have AJ in MP and raise it to 75c. One caller in the SB. Flop is A-J-2 rainbow. He checks it over to me, I bet $1.50 into $1.75. The SB raises it up to $5.60. I shove and he calls with pocket two"s which is the only hand he can have that beats me. I am pretty sure that I played that hand OK but ran into the top of his range.
Second hand I have pocket twos in LP, there are some limper"s so I limp as well. The flop comes down Q-Q-2 and we get it all-in on the flop. My opponent (who was BB) has Q-2. These two hands cost me about $60.
I come off pretty quickly soon after this as I was coming off pretty soon anyway. Bit disappointing as I had played quite well and can"t do too much about either of those hands. End of day stats looked like this
Hands = 2150
VP$IP = 11.99%
PFR = 8.18%
3-Bet = 3.45%
Total Loss = $21.39
VPP = 110
Still pretty happy with the way I played but do feel like I deserved a winning start to the year. If I keep playing like I did today I should have a profitable year though.
AAroddersAA:
I had intended to leave poker for for the evening then got a message on Facebook inviting me to play in a private game. Thought I may as well play whilst watching the darts. It"s a 5c/10c game with a $25 buyin. I obviously buyin for the max. I only open the one table as I don"t want to play a full session.
So I play a bit, lose a pot to Darren Shallis somehow (how bad can I run *lol* - joking obv). Anyway I win back the $21 I was down earlier, so was pretty happy with that. I decide to stay for a while as the darts was overruning due to all the playing about with the breeze on the stage. I win some more and get myself nearly back to where I was before the last session. I am about 600bb deep and cover the table. The next biggest stack is about 450bb deep. A hand comes up where there is a raise from EP to 40c. The 2nd biggest stack then shoves about $45 into the middle, I have two Aces, which is useful and elect to call. The EP player folds after thinking for ages and I am up against AK. This is a good thing.
PokerStars Home Game #73130738577: {Xtreme Poker} Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2012/01/02 0:22:58 WET [2012/01/01 19:22:58 ET]
Table "Rostia IV" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: AAroddersAA ($59.74 in chips)
Seat 3: wansky69 ($14.77 in chips)
Seat 4: Si_player_1 ($19.27 in chips)
Seat 5: DigsyDave ($26.76 in chips)
Seat 8: Dayeface ($20.50 in chips)
Seat 9: bevan147 ($43.53 in chips)
bevan147: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
AAroddersAA: posts the ante $0.02
wansky69: posts the ante $0.02
Si_player_1: posts the ante $0.02
DigsyDave: posts the ante $0.02
Dayeface: posts the ante $0.02
bevan147: posts the ante $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ac Ah]
wansky69: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Si_player_1: folds
Dayeface said, " haha what an absolute clown"
Si_player_1 said, "lol"
DigsyDave: folds
Dayeface: folds
bevan147 said, "
Newportlad:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on January 02, 2012, 01:41:41 AM ---
I had intended to leave poker for for the evening then got a message on Facebook inviting me to play in a private game. Thought I may as well play whilst watching the darts. It"s a 5c/10c game with a $25 buyin. I obviously buyin for the max. I only open the one table as I don"t want to play a full session.
So I play a bit, lose a pot to Darren Shallis somehow (how bad can I run *lol* - joking obv). Anyway I win back the $21 I was down earlier, so was pretty happy with that. I decide to stay for a while as the darts was overruning due to all the playing about with the breeze on the stage. I win some more and get myself nearly back to where I was before the last session. I am about 600bb deep and cover the table. The next biggest stack is about 450bb deep. A hand comes up where there is a raise from EP to 40c. The 2nd biggest stack then shoves about $45 into the middle, I have two Aces, which is useful and elect to call. The EP player folds after thinking for ages and I am up against AK. This is a good thing.
PokerStars Home Game #73130738577: {Xtreme Poker} Hold'em No Limit ($0.05/$0.10 USD) - 2012/01/02 0:22:58 WET [2012/01/01 19:22:58 ET]
Table "Rostia IV" 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: AAroddersAA ($59.74 in chips)
Seat 3: wansky69 ($14.77 in chips)
Seat 4: Si_player_1 ($19.27 in chips)
Seat 5: DigsyDave ($26.76 in chips)
Seat 8: Dayeface ($20.50 in chips)
Seat 9: bevan147 ($43.53 in chips)
bevan147: posts small blind $0.05
AAroddersAA: posts big blind $0.10
AAroddersAA: posts the ante $0.02
wansky69: posts the ante $0.02
Si_player_1: posts the ante $0.02
DigsyDave: posts the ante $0.02
Dayeface: posts the ante $0.02
bevan147: posts the ante $0.02
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AAroddersAA [Ac Ah]
wansky69: raises $0.30 to $0.40
Si_player_1: folds
Dayeface said, " haha what an absolute clown"
Si_player_1 said, "lol"
DigsyDave: folds
Dayeface: folds
bevan147 said, "
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