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| Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
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So I feel like I've turned things around in the last few days. I just gotta remind myself that beats and suckouts are going to happen, and sometimes a weeks worth is going to happen in a 5minute span. Nothing I can do about that but keep getting my money in good whenever possible, and find the damn fold button when necessary.
Finding that fold button is'nt as hard as it seems either. A lot of the time that I make dumb plays and stack off with top pair/weak overpair its because I've had a series of beats and coolers in that session, or recent sessions and it just messes with my head. I'm not going to let it do that anymore. Its just way too destructive to my winrate. And on that note, I really think that I'm capable of sustaining a really strong winrate over a large sample at 25NL. I just need to find that calm zen state of mind. Get rid of the emotion in my game because it has no place anywhere near the felt.
So here's a chart for the last 18k hands or so of 25NL. Not too shabby imo. I just need to ramp up my volume a bit and I will be well on my way to moving up and hopefully staying at NL50 for awhile.
Aside from just running better, and playing more disciplined, I think I'm actually still learning. I've been trying to cut down my losses in the blinds. I was getting hammered in them before but I'm really improving there.
Some adjustments that I've made are:
3betting lighter - I was 3betting fairly light before against anybody with a high attempt to steal and fold to 3bet but I think I was 3betting a lot of hands that I should have just been calling with and playing poker postflop. I've been 3betting a lot of non premium broadway type hands like AJ, KQ, KJ, QJ etc. I think its +EV to do this but I've been working on polarizing my range much more. The above hands are rarely going to get me any good action postflop in a 3bet pot. I'm usually going to take it down pre, or with a cbet. It seems kinda like a waste of a good hand. I can accomplish the exact same thing with complete trash.
So what i'm trying to do now is continue 3betting my premium hands out of the blinds like QQ+ and AK, AQ. I still sometimes 3bet JJ but I think this hand falls into the category of turning it into a bluff postflop because we're never getting any action after the flop in a 3bet pot unless we hit the flop. When I dont improve I can rarely get my money in with JJ except for when villain is a complete moron. I guess I need to point out here that I'm still planning on 3betting some of these hands i've mentioned for value against the right opponents but against anybody decent at 25NL you cant 3bet AJ for value because they're folding pretty much everything that you beat.
I'm now 3betting a bunch of junk hands
J5s, 23o, and any other hand that has no other use but as a bluff. Hands where it doesnt matter what my hand is because it isnt going to showdown unless I flop hard or villain lets it me show it down cheap.
I'm definding my blinds carefully with a lot of hands I'm no longer 3betting and as they play a lot better against most villains stealing ranges.
I 4 bet bluffed 22 from the CO against a positionally aware TAG's button 3bet and took it down. Did it against another guy with 77.
I really think that lowering my opening raise size down to 3bb has helped give me a lot more room preflop. Doesnt sound like a big deal, but it has a big effect on 3bet and 4bet sizing. If I raise to 3bb, I'm usually getting 3bet to 9 or 10bb as opposed to 12-16bb. When I fold to the 3bet I give up less, and when I call its less so it gives me more room to make some moves at light 3bettors either by flatting and raising/floating the flop or just plain 4betting them. |
posted by TheBowlBoy @ 8:45 PM  |
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