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AAroddersAA:
Back in work today, which I don"t mind, weeks off are nice but you don"t realize how much you miss the day to day stuff until you get back to it.

I have not played any poker since my last post but wanted to make a quick update post. I have started to properly go through my database (which contains lot"s of hands from the last 18 months or so, must see if I can purge the older ones) and look at regular opponents. I kind of did this anyway but was missing a lot of info as I just looked at hands that I was involved in and usually the ones I lost.

Yesterday after a Facebook conversation with Noble1 (who must surely be bored with me by now *lol*) I have started to actively research my opponents and update my notes on Pokerstar"s. It"s going to be a long process as the player pool is so large but I have already developed a colour scheme to help with table selection and have started adding some really useful notes to players who I see regularly at the table. Things like their basic betting patterns and how they play certain types of hand. A lot of players have tendencies that will allow you to narrow down hand ranges and actually improve my ability to make the most valuable play . Obviously I knew this before but if you have never properly gone through this process you will be surprised how much info you can glean from it and how much it provides extra understanding of the general game play.

It"s hard work but very interesting and I am looking forward to doing more of it, I am going to put in about 90 minutes after work on this each day this week. I would recommend this process as it also really shows you how a standard opponent at this level actually plays, I have only just started really getting into it but will be making it a regular thing to do. Even if I never meet any of the players I have made notes about on the table (and I will) it will still be a worthwhile use of time.

Whilst I am here I can say thank you very much to Noble for his help and some of the stuff he has shared with me really is well worth having. Although I don"t always agree with him (that would be really boring), I admit but have to respect his knowledge of the game and the research he has clearly put in. Also the way that he has spent time gathering all of this stuff together and passing on to me and answering questions when he really doesn"t have too at all. I should also mention that Brendan (aka snapper) has done the same in the past but I never really thanked him on the thread.

A few people have recently commented on the way people on this forum are happy to help each other out just because it what they do. This is another example of this, hopefully he, along with people like Noble and Brendan will continue to be contributors to this thread as their views are really helpful to myself and make the thread more interesting.

AAroddersAA:
Had a pretty poor day yesterday. Over the week I had been working on my HUD and the way that I play against certain types of player. I thought I had worked out a good few improvements to my game and my setup for the HUD. I had also spent quite a bit time going through regular opponents and making notes on them to try and exploit certain types of player better.

It didn"t work.

To begin with the table looked cluttered as the HUD was taking up to much space, this directly lead to me making a poor mistake in one of the first hands I played and losing a buyin. I then ran a straight into a rivered full house which cost me another buyin. I then ended up down $75 after losing some smaller pots.

I did at one point manage to bring it back to being only $10 down then ran QQ into AA preflop, I really felt that it should be a fold pre in this pot but against the stats I was looking at QQ seemed to be ahead of his three bet range so I called and got it in on a low flop.

Then I rivered a full house in a small pot ended up getting more than a buyin in against quads.

Overall not really happy with the new system I have setup. I still need to put some more work in away from the table but I am pretty sure that if I had not done all of the stuff last week and just played my normal game with the same cards and situations I would have ended up up yesterday.

Hands played = 1799
VP$IP = 14.34%
PFR = 9.67%
3Bet = 3%
Total Loss = $79.13
bb/100 = -4.4

Not sure if I should play or not today, I want to but kind of feel like I should not due to thefact I don"t think I was playing very well yesterday but I think it was more that I was trying to do thing differently to normal, maybe I will just try and play a small session and see how that goes.

TheSnapper:
Do you use HM Rodders?

Have you tried to customise your pop up Huds? much tidier especially when playing on a laptop. Image below is an example of some of the pop up hud stats I use. You can set your permanent hud to show minimal stats and set larger custom pop up hud panels to appear when you hover over a stat on your smaller permanent Hud.


Right click select "view image" for full view of image.

I"d be happy to help out if you are unsure about this HM feature. Feel free to drop a pm and we could do a quick teamviewer session sometime.

Swinebag:
brendan, you are a star, and sum up what APAT is all about

noble1:
read page 42 onwards rodders, every1 goes through it, EVERY1.....

http://www.groene-appel.nl/moving_through_uNL_2010_verneer.pdf

tough it out dude........

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