Another strong session

Coaching lesson got put off 'til tomorrow night so I decided to do some grinding across 6 tables. I'd rewatched Verneer's 6 tabling 100nl video through the day today, so was in a good mindset to get a bit more TAG. I feel like a caught a good run of cards tonight and played really well. It was one of those sessions that just clicked and most things went right. It's amazing what new goals and focus does for my play.

As you can see I've tightened up my stats a lot, I think this is about my optimum multi-tabling grinding game. Maybe a little tighter. Played 21.5/18, basically playing TAG but isolating a lot from the CO, and loosening up a lot from the BTN. One thing to note is that my aggression factors were pretty insane, I think this shows that I was value betting hands a lot, probably because I caught a lot of cards.

Mixing up the c-bets
One of the things I think I did best tonight was mixing up my betting when players figured out I was playing so aggressively postflop. As soon as they started adjusting to my constant c-bet pounding I'd start check-raising them on the flop, or letting them float me and check raising them on the turn occasionally in good spots to mix it up. I also put a good amount of delayed c-bets in. I think it's really important to mix things up against good players when they start adjusting to your position raising and cbetting game.


Some hands
Cheers for everyone submitting votes in weaktight on what to do on some of the hands in my last post. Feedback is always appreciated.

Rivered trips, bad spot for thin value
This is the hand of the night for sure.

Standard button open with JTo, called by a tight SB (12/10). Obv bet, same as I would a cbet, and he calls. At this point I'd give his range J9+, a mid PP or like maybe 56, or a set. Any other hands I'd only give about 10% of his range to here as I really don't think he's floating me OOP here.

Turn is a K and I check behind for pot control, again pretty standard.

River makes me trips, and he bets $17 into a $20 pot. Without any hand-reading I'd be raising here, but taking into account his range based on previous streets and his PT stats I think this is almost certainly a fold. I really don't beat much, I don't think it's that likely he had nothing on the flop, or that he caught the K. I think I beat only like 25% of his river range here (J9/56/middle pair/bluff). I think he has it about 75% of the time, either with a better J or a set. Does anyone else lay this down on the river?

Anyway, I ran my time bank down trying to talk myself into flat calling. But ended up trying to get some thin value and raising up about 2.3x his bet. He just called with 33.


Overpair fold in 3-bet pot
Pretty easy fold, no way calling here is +EV in my opinion. Despite Verneers recent advice on always felting overpairs in 3bet pots I think this is definately somewhere I can get away.


Another biggish fold - AQ on A-high flop
If we have full stacks I re-raise the flop for value/info. But in this spot I think a flop re-raise will commit me, so just flat call. 6 on the river and he over-bet ships it. Eugh, this is close I think. This is the first time he's cold called so I doubt he can have a straight. I was figuring him for 2pr or a set. I'm beating A9/AT/AJ which match his line, hmm. I guess he could have like 99-QQ or something here too, but these don't match his line as well. Meh, I think this is tight. Could prob call or fold here. Will pokerstove this tomorrow.


Most of the hands where I won big pots tonight I played pretty well, pretty standard. Here are a few of the more interesting winners...

Getting value with a turned set
Got nice value here from a loose player who calls too much.

Shipping AK ** (TM) DodgyKen
God knows what this fish is doing. :)

Post-oaking a reg
This guy likes to make hero calls on the river. So I make the river bet look like I'm trying to steal the pot on the river.

C/Ring an aggressive players float
My cbetting image was out of line at this table at this point. I liked C/Ring the turn here and letting him float me.

And another float C/R here
Looks like that flop would have missed me and I was cbetting. But no! That's right fish, hammertime!

Snapping off a river bluff
Loose player, pretty easy river bluff call, most likely middle pair of missed draw.


Running hot
So I've been running pretty hot since I've moved to the new iPoker skin. I've got a special reverse luckswitch activated account, which is nice. Give me a shout if you'd like a luckbox account and I'll hook you up. :)