Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

I think you have got that pretty spot on Mike. The call pre is bad, I should have 4-bet or folded. Flop is OK, Turn is bad and it is too late on the river, although I most likely should be folding even there. I am only beating a bluff from the turn onwards and not many bluffs are betting all three streets.

I entirely agree with your point about trying to break down the hands it does indeed help at the tables as you learn what spots look like and become more inclined to do the right thing.

[TheSnapper]

Flatting 3b"s light is something you should restrict to the ample opportunities you will have, in position

[AAroddersAA]

I played some more of the FR games as I said I would. Here is the overall results

Hands: 1000
VP$IP: 24.90%
PFR: 22.20%
3Bet: 9.51%
Fold to 3-bet: 71.49%
4Bet: 6.98%
Att to Steal: 84.76%%
Total Profit: $58.53

My observations of this game is that it is quite different to the 6-max games that I normally play. The first thing that I noticed is that stealing worked a lot better. At 6-max I get played back at a lot but in this game people were just folding. This could well be down to the regs in this game not knowing me and therefore being less inclinded to play back again a player who is known to be pretty aggressive. It did get to the point though where I was basically opening every unopened cut off, button and small blind. I also found c-betting was much more effective in this game, again I found people folded a lot more than the 6-max. Conversely firing on the turn after getting called on the flop was less effective, I assume this to be as you get less floats. Checks tended to be nothing so I was also betting a lot when checked too. The thing that surprised me a little bit is that 3-betting from the blinds and button worked just as well as it does in the 6-max games.

I will post some hands tomorrow.

[Charlie44]

Wow - nice profit Steve   - is this 10NL ? If so 58bb/100. Very very crushing !!

Not to take anything away from the cracking result, believe you will find the regs playing back a lot more at you as they build their hand histories. 

Please keep us posted if you plan to continue your assault !!

[AAroddersAA]

Wow - nice profit Steve   - is this 10NL ? If so 58bb/100. Very very crushing !!

Not to take anything away from the cracking result, believe you will find the regs playing back a lot more at you as they build their hand histories. 

Please keep us posted if you plan to continue your assault !!

It is $10nl but obviously I ran very very well and this is not sustainable, not even close. Below shows that EV adjusted I was up about $38, which still means I was running hotter than hell over a small sample.



The regs have start to play back at me but you just have to adjust to this. This hand is against a guy who seemed to like to 3-bet my opens pre (this was the third time I have seen him do it) and he has a 3-bet of 15%. He also seemed quite passive post flop and inclined to give up when he missed. I had already flatted him from the button and taken a 3-bet pot off him using position, there is also some history with him as he is also a 6-max player. In this hand I tried something different, flatting to take it away on the flop might be better vs this player though. Saying that playing 4-bet pots in position against passive opponents is probably never a bad thing.

http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/5306802

I will post some more later and over the weekend.

[AAroddersAA]

For later read over the weekend, gonna fire up some 180"s and see if I can do half as well as Stu (I seriously doubt it lol)

[AAroddersAA]

Only fired up 5 and out of two already. I have three going though as follows

1) 6147 chips vs average of 4285 with 62 Left
2) 6865 chips vs average of 3417 with 79 Left
3) 1715 chips vs average of 3375 with 80 Left

[AAroddersAA]

Min cashed one and made the last two tables of another.

Played: 5
Loss: $5.95

[AAroddersAA]

Played some cash this morning, did not play that well but no massive damage, lost about $20 which is a pretty standard session which is going to happen sometimes.

I am going to play some 180"s, might do some MTT"s later depending on how I feel

Hands Today: 189
VPIP: 35.45%
PFR: 28.57%
3-Bet: 13.04%
Fold to 3bet: 68%
Loss: $23.56

I will get around to posting some hands in the PHA section soon. I have fired up 4x$2.50 and 1x$4.50 will keep regging for a while

[Fatcatstu]

Fancy playing some 180"s tonight?

[AAroddersAA]

Fancy playing some 180"s tonight?

Not going anywhere today (was working earlier so could not make the football today - sigh).
Yeah likely to play some.

So far I have played 8 today, min cashed in 1, busted 3 and 4 are still running. I also have one $4.50 on the go which I have a good start in.

Will be playing for a while this afternoon then likely to take a break, get a curry and play evening session around 7pm, if I am feeling up for it may play the big $11 as I have some tokens for it.

[AAroddersAA]

Played 14 and only min cashed in two for a loss of $31.

Will probably play some more later.

[Fatcatstu]

I shall join you then Looking forward to a session tonight

[AAroddersAA]

I shall join you then Looking forward to a session tonight

Will do for sure. I seemed to be running bad today for some unknown reason so I spoke to Pokerstars about this. Apparently the RNG was broken and generating random cards (rather than the specific ones I required). They assure me it is now fixed so I tried a quick Zoom session to see.

It seems to be working right again.



Hands: 251
VP$IP: 29%
PFR: 23%
3-Bet: 5.38%
Fold to 3-bet: 45%
Total Profit: $50.42

[AAroddersAA]

Pokerstar"s is working right again. Played some 180 manners tonight. PLayed 14 and cashed in 4 including a win.

Month to ate on them is

Games: 33
Profit: $68.77