Oh, some goals

I sat down the other day at lunch and didn't bring my book for some damn reason. Anyway, I set a couple of goals.
1. 5k hands by Jan 1. I've put in just over 2k in the last 3 days. I think this will go.
2. 2 500h sessions with Jackson. This I think I'm going to make 1x any #h session with him as he's doing a good bit of traveling and I'm working pretty much every weekend that he's in town.
3. Mess with the reports function in PT and get some good data to run off of as a baseline for my next 10-20k hands. This should be easy enough if I just friggin sit down and do it after my 5k hands are done.

huh? 12/8-12/10 and a hand I lost

I'm winning again and I'm not sure what the change was that made this happen. I'm really using my hud a lot more. Maybe that's it. People's ranges are becoming a lot more transparent. The hands just seem to flow by. I sat down last night and played 1100 hands. That's so weird for me. 9 to 10 tables seems the norm for me. Usually I'm playing 6 tables for 4 or 5 hours. I can't play that long now that I have to be up at 630am every morning. I can start at 830p or 9p to finish at 1030 or 11.

hmmm. I played a lot tighter last night (9/7) vs the last couple of nights (14/10). I didn't win nearly as much last night. I was a full AF lower than the previous two sessions as well. I know I was exhausted, but I was still playing probably my B- game.
One hand that killed my profits and put me into the red for the night (before I came back) follows:
I pick up AQdd in MP and raise 6x to iso the utg limper who was about 32/8/1 (like almost everyone else at my tables). I get 5 callers. The CO, BTN, both blinds, and the limper. Wow. I'm not happy. Flop is QQT, 2 spades. With the pot at $1.5, I lead for $0.60 after being checked to and I can only get the btn and blinds out. The turn is an offsuit (QQT) 3. Check to me again, so I lead again for $1 killing draw odds. I'm thinking that I'm up against another (hopefully worse) Q and I'm committing here. After calling the bet, the CO has just less than one PSB left. So if he calls, I'm shoving any river blind. The river is another offsuit 9, giving only straights and kickers made hands. I bet a red bird and he snap calls to show J8ss. Wow, didn't expect that. Then again, I'm getting that in on the flop if I can. So I drop little over a full stack there.
If I had to do it over again, I think that things would be going in on the turn. I'd make the flop bet like $0.90. (Hopefully the limper would call here at the bigger cbet) Assuming that the same two people called, the pot would be $4.20 instead of $3.80. I could shove into that and maybe have some FE too as CO would have like 1.3 PSBs left and no made hand. The call cbet % for most of that table was around 35-45%, so this would be as likely a situation to happen as what did happen. (I think CO's call cbet % was actually a bit lower at 25-30%. So if he was calling my flop bet at .60, then he was calling it at .90-1.10 (this is given that I don't know his hand)) Shoving $6 into $4 is more than $5 into $6.

hmmm down and up

So I had a bad session on Sunday night. I was running meh, playing well and then I ran head-first into a Mack truck. At that point, I was up about 350bbs. I was playing with a few regs, but pretty much everyone was terrible. I c/shoved with a gutty+NFD into a full (200bbs) stack and ran into QQ (simple overpair). Ouch, but meh. I take a couple of small pots. Then I pick up 33. Villain and I are 300 deep at this point. Of course it's raised, by me. Flop is Q73hhh. There are 4 people in the pot. A couple of checks, villain fires a stupid small (I almost saw it as a post-oak) bet into a meh pot and I call, isolating the two of us. Turn and river are Js and 6d. He checks turn to hesitantly call my 3/4 psb to check the riv. I think, and say no way would he play a flush like this. His AF was 4. He would've raised me on the flop, or the turn if he was "slowplaying." I shove. He tanks and calls with QQ. I think these two hands were the only two well played hands vs me the whole session. And they combined for just over -550bb. Kind of frustrating, but sessions like this happen.
Last night, I played and took roughly +450bb. I compared the stats and there wasn't too much difference. 14/11/4 I was slightly more aggro PF and slightly less aggro post flop. I might play again in the next couple of days, but my best friend's birthday is today. Her family is having some sort of a shindig and I'm invited. Until later...

Thanksgiving

I'm thankful for a lot of things. Among them, I'm thankful for some time to play poker! I had 3 or 4 positive nights in a row. All of the sessions were short (<1k hands). But it was fun none the less. If by fun, I mean having top set of kings snapped allin on the turn by a nekkid nut flush draw. Insert more whining here. :D

so break I guess?

I've played once in the past 9 days. My new job is a bit draining so I'm not at my best in the evenings. I might try to make Saturdays my new workday.

so yeah.... back to relearn the basics

Well after that huge heater in July, I found myself on a disgusting downswing that left me broke on tilt and only a small roll on stars. I was just plain old playing bad. I wasn't focuesed and I felt like it was just more for the fun of it. I wasn't trying. I left just enough on stars to play in a big (64-man) HU tournament. That was fun for sure! I walked over my first opponent and then promptly destroyed myself in the second round. To be fair, monkeyhat played very well. I just know that I wasn't in A-game mode and I feel like he would still have something of an edge over that. He was focused and made moves at all the right times. SO!
After my first match win, I took some of the "freeroll" money and sat into a cash game. I ran it up to like $18 or something. Then I lost my second match and had no more commitments from my roll. So I took it and started grinding 5nl.
Now, the thing I love so much about 5nl is that it is deep. Other than 2nl, 5nl is the ONLY stake that is deep by default. I love the fact that more sites are adding deep tables, but I feel that they are behind the curve in this regard. Anyway, I've put in about 24k hands since then. I bought PT3 and it has paid for itself. I'm wondering how much of teh munnies I've missed out on from not having it sooner.
Okay, so over my last 13kish hands, I've had a winrate right around 8PTBB/100. I feel that this is on the low end. I really think that over the next 10k my WR will be closer to 10 or even higher. I made a post on 2+2 a while ago that "if you are not beating it for at least 8, you're not paying attention." I think that WRs of 15 or 20 are not out of the question. I believe that they are at the top end for sure, but certainly attainable. I've had sessions 1k+ hand minimum where my WR was close to 30. Granted, I ran well in those couple of sessions, but none the less. I think that as you move up, WRs will drop accordingly. This is because the edge you have over the other players will decrese in size. Hopefully not too where it disappears! I remember hearing somewhere that a winrate of simply "1" in the big game is the equivalent to destroying it! Anyway, I'll grab a screenshot of things maybe over the weekend and get it up here. Until then....

horse FTW!!!

so I got wasted last night and had some fun...