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Keeping Warm in Winter
AAroddersAA:
Played a little bit of NLHE cash today as I have not played a lot recently. I wanted to try and play a bit more aggressive and play more hands. Played micro stakes Zoom for a couple of hours and ran well.
Overall stats for the session were as below
Hands:356VP$IP:30.06%PFR:21.07%3-Bet:8.63%Profit:$50.16
I was only about +$30 in all in EV though so definitely was running good. Since playing a plot of PLO though I do think I have vastly improved my post flop game, don"t think it was that bad before but because PLO forces you to play flops properly you get to recognize things strength and weakness better. My red line looks a lot better than normal. Some of the hands I played.
This is probably an example of a hand I played badly and the sort of thing I just have to get right if I want to alter the play style
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4343925
I also made $20 at PLO which was nice but then lost $20 trying to play PLO8, maybe I should spend some time trying to figure that game out before trying to play it.
Played 2 $4.50"s did not cash in either of them Current stats on them are:-
Played:9Cashed:0Total Loss$40.50ROI0%
Will play two more tonight whilst playing the league game.
AAroddersAA:
Nearly broke my run of non cashes but then this happened on the bubble
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4345351
AAroddersAA:
Last night I was bored so decided to play poker and wanted to make some hands for the Strategy board. This is a leak as being bored is not a good reason to play. I also didn"t really get any hands for the board. This hand happened pretty early on.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4348531
Don"t like how I played it obviously The flop shove is a great move if the pot is heads up and gets a lot of folds but 4-way it is just not very good.
This one is not great either http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4348532
Anyway the stats for the session were
Hands: 314
Profit: $4.80
VP$IP: 41.4%
PFR: 29.3%
3-Bet: 10.38%
Looking forward to the Blonde Bash this weekend going up on the Friday, going to have to come back on the Sunday but it should be fun.
EDIT: Hang on didn"t we have one of these a couple of months back?
http://www.pokercircuit.com/index.php/pokerstars-announce-new-micromillions-schedule/
AAroddersAA:
Completely unable to sleep last night for some reason, still not tried now. Anyway thought I may as well get up and play some poker, this might also be a leak. For some reason I seem to be playing quite well at cash currently. I played 149 hands with the following being of interest
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4349119
This is more of a cooler than anything else. When I reviewed it I was wondering if I could get away from it but I think it is silly to think I ever could when I flop the full house 68BB deep. If he had had 300BB then it become a more interesting problem. I should be good enough to get away in that spot without getting stacked. I would lose more though. I have to call if he pots the flop and the turn. If he then pots the river it"s interesting, not sure I could fold although I probably should. This is the only hand I had played with this opponent.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/4349120
This one is far more interesting as it is against a Zoom regular. He is a decent player for this level who will sometimes call a cbet and fold on the turn with a marginal hand (top pair type hand). He probably views me as aggressive, does not lay down hands that easily and knows that a 3-bet does not just mean AA or KK. Importantly in this hand I would expect him to know I almost never check the turn with a good hand. I could have AA or KK here but I never have QQ or a 5 (from his point of view) and there are no real draws for me to have. I make a mistake by betting the river as it is a pretty obvious check/fold when that card hit"s as the only draw he could have was the flush draw and if he had any sort of hand the only hand he can put me on that beats him is JJ. So this hand is a mistake.
There is one hand I played I am really not sure what the best option is even after reviewing it. I think it is a difficult one to be honest. It may well depend on the players but it is hard to get a good read in Zoom, although if you do review sessions and make notes on players it is a great advantage as most players are not going to have this.
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=58014.0
Overall stats for the session were as follows
Hands: 149
VP$IP: 36.24%
PFR: 22.15
3Bet: 6.35%
Profit: $25.05
One thing I think I have improved recently is my non showdown winnings. My red line is now consistently in the positive which it never was before so I am picking better spots to steal pots and playing better again the players.
I have to stop playing at the wrong time though if I want to get my game back to the level it should be at. Both of the sessions I have played in the last two days were not played because I felt like playing or because I thought it was a good time to play but simply because I wanted something to do. Will try and stop that as it is really bad and most be -EV long term I would think.
AAroddersAA:
Quick update on this had not had much time to keep it up to date.
Running pretty bad at the moment at the pokers but not losing money whilst doing it which is obviously how I like it. I THINK I am playing quite well. Its not alway easy to tell.
On Pokerstars I am down playing PLO cash this month by $50. I was doing well until hit a bad run and tilted off 3 extra buyins so will gave myself a stern telling off for that. I do that way too often, it"s down to not wanting to have a losing session and trying to play "just a little bit longer" to get even. I have said it before if I could just get that out of my game I would be far more profitable as a cash player.
I am $70 up at NLHE cash and very happy with my game which I have been working hard on this year and I am playing so much better on the turn and river now and making much better plays against certain players. Playing PLO has helped a lot with that. My red line has improved a huge amount and is now usually positive after a session.
I have manged to lose $103.50 at the $4.50"s by failing to cash in 23 straight. But a nice run in the Sunday Storm and the Bigger $11 last Sunday plus a couple of little cashes in the VIP freerolls has put me $325 up in other online tournaments this month.
So overall I am doing quite well.
Right I am off to win the Silverstar freeroll and then to draw blanks in another 6474564658 $4.50 180 manners :-)
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