OneGreenChip

*sigh*

• NL 50: 498 hands / ($104.05) / (20.89)
• NL 25: 8,568 hands / ($27.46) / (0.64)
• PL 25: 12 hands / ($26.70) / (445.00) <-- lolz
• NL 10: 2,989 hands / ($27.55) / (4.61)
• NL 2: 38 hands / $0.90 / 59.21 <---- pwnd NL2, bitches

some bad play and some suckouts, imo. I took a shot at 50nl at one point on a Friday night, and found, shit you not, the WORST PLAYERS I HAVE EVER ENCOUNTERED. Seriously. I don't know what they were doing there. All were unknowns, all had 300BB stacks, none knew how to play, constantly putting me on bluffs, shoving their 3rd pair, and turning/rivering cards to crush me. I made millions of Sklansky dollars. lol. It gives me a lot of hope for the future, if I can discipline myself to solid play, and listen to my intuition...I don't see a whole lot of difference between 25NL and 50NL. Actually, it seems like there are MORE fish at 50NL...possibly because players who are lifelong 'depositors' probably can't discipline themselves to drop any farther down than that?

or maybe I have a good nose for fish. that was basically what made up the 2nd spike in the graph. The first spike was when I ran into a Good Lag player at 25nl, and he took me for over 5 buyins. I thought I could outplay him, based on his stats, and finally realized he was the shark and I the fish. We had some great sessions....you'll see his name fluvium in a few of my hands to be reviewed.

and I'm not posting the suckouts, either. Fuck that. I'm posting hands where I made mistaaaaaakes. BTIMM, I'm emulating your posting style, because I think it's the most value-added. Bless you, weaktight.com :D

On the good side: 13K hands!! I <3 my new monitor. Now if only I can start winning with it....

january before monitor (1/1 - 1/15): 3.4K hands / $103.83 / 6.02 bb/100
january after monitor (1/15 - 1/31): 8.8K hands / ($255.86) / (5.34)bb/100

Holy crap. I'm in the midst of a 10BI downswing? wowowow.

hands like this are why!

Lose A Big Pot / Win a Small One
(villain is 31.5/17.5/2. AFt = 3, AFr = 5)

For January, I am (23.12) with AA 35 times. I'm fucking bananas when I get them here. What do I do? The crucial mistake for me here is the turn. Flop line I like. Turn line I'm a little stressed -- what raises here? AQ+, two pair, a set, the flush, or the straight. Looking back on this now, I wouldn't hate a A shove completely, but the line I took looks conflicted.

I don't like a call here. A shove is getting value from 2pr/set, and losing to straight/flush, which both just got there. Dammit.

Me Run Goot

I don't mind my call from the SB here, as I've got a concealed hand and can get away from it. And then I flop second nuts. I can't slowplay this. I'm quite happy getting it all in with 2nd nuts and a backdoor draw to a flush, and am amazed when the flush hits. weeeee

50NL fishies
um, thanks? these types of players/plays were STANDARD. i can't wait to find this guy again.

nightmare donking
sadly, sometimes I am capable of it myself. this was my biggest lost pot of January, and I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I don't hate my PF call too much...maybe I could flop a strong draw or something. I have to put the 3better on (JJ+, AK+), and that's why I was willing to play against him, because I had his range narrowed so well.

It's not even too bad leading out at this board when I catch a piece, but wtf am I doing calling his raise? This is horrible. I'm getting value only from AK, and were he to try to C-raise me off with AK, it'd be MUCH bigger.

Basically, I decide to represent a set, he doesn't buy it, and I drop almost 3 BIs in this pot. Horribly, horribly played. Certainly a set is in my range, but it's just a small part of it. I can't expect him to believe that I've got one, even though my PF play suggests it. Terrible read and terrible play.

entitlement
villain is 21/18/4 over 422 hands.

Here i 3bet standard from the BB. Sizing is a little off, as we're almost 200BB deep. I wouldn't might a 3bet to 12BB ($3). He 4bets me to 27BB, which is a little small, so I'm less likely to think it's a 4bet bluff.

options now are to 5bet, 5push, or call and commit to a non-A board. I choose the third option, not wanting to let the fish off the line. And the board is the worst possible board I have ever seen, and he leads out on it. I tank, put him on QQ/JJ, and stack off. Embarrassingly bad.

sense of entitlement (OMG COWBOYS) + failure to think hand through = stacked like a jackass.

you know what? For the MONTH, I think that's it!!! Very few of my hands were errors as serious as these...they were just standard variance hands. Getting it all in with top two vs a flush draw and the flush came in, or sucking out on somebody when i made a bad read and push. Nothing too interesting that I have to change up. My errors are so incredibly serious and obvious in my big hands...putting people on bluffs when they have the nuts, etc that there is only BIG tuning, and not fine-tuning, to be done on my game.

quizzically,

OGC