Railing
Did some railing sessions with Graham over the past couple of nights, cheers for that mate. He railed me last night in a completely insane 300 hand session with some HUGE hands. I've sent these to Messiah to help analyse. Anyway it was cool having someone railing while I was playing, kept me thinking about the hands more, but it was difficult to play more than 3 tables while trying to talk and commentate on my thoughts too. So when railing using mikogo/skype from now on I'll try to just play 3 tables and concentrate on improving my reads/play rather than grinding for high volume.
Then I railed Graham for about an hour tonight while he played some $50nl on iPoker. Was good to sit back and watch and chat about some of the tougher hands. At the end of the session we went over some of biggest losing hands in PT which I think was pretty useful also. Graham played real well and crushed the session for like 20bb/100 which was pretty sweet too :)Hands
Got 500 in tonight 4-6 tabling before spending the rest of the evening railing/studying. Over the past couple of weeks I'd basically loosened my game up to about 23/20, and I've been finding it really tough to play postflop with my loose image and in some of the marginal spots I've been in. So tonight I decided to pull it back a bit and grind. I played 19.5/16.5, TAG with tricks and ground out a $60 profit, 11BB/100 (not PTBB anymore). My buddy Jamie (who plays much higher stakes) railed me on MSN for some of it which was fun too, got some great advice from him, cheers man.
Here are some hands from tonight as always, thoughts welcome.
AA with lots of action
lol, sitting with AA and watching everyone dump money in the pot pre was pretty sweet. Flop is, err, dangerous. But there's $66 in the pot and we've got effective stacks of $80 (but MP only has $60). I can't check with what's likely the best hand, and any bet commits me, so I raise the anchor and ship the chips. :>
They've only really flopped a flush with AQ, maybe QJ/JT at a push. I'm screwed if they've flopped a set but I because of the pot size we just felt AA every time here. I think I get called by a good amount of hands I have beat like pocket pairs with a club, or AcX, and I'm gonna take the pot down a lot.
LOL you = my profit
:)
This hand was sick
Villain is 50/12 over 30 hands. His minraise preflop doesn't mean strength, he's done it twice before with weak aces/low PPs. Easy value raise in pos with AK.
On the flop his bet is weak, I put him on A6/A3 , some FD, 45, a mid pair, or something like J9/JT/JQ. Because he's such a fish I have to give him quite a wide range here.
Turn card completes the FD and 55, he checks it to me. I love having position here on the turn. He could have made that flush, so I can check and see what he does on the river. If he has the flush, he's going to bet.
On the river he checks, which seems really strange to me. So I feel that I can rule out a flush and middle set now, or else he's betting that river. So a lot of his range is made up with marginal hands... the weak Js, and small pairs with a A or maybe K kicker. There's $60 in the pot and he has like $43 behind. Can I make him fold 40%+ of the time here is the question. It's not a play I like making at $100nl against these sorts of fish, as I wouldn't be surprised if he calls with his A6. But I think I can fold him enough to make profit by shoving the river here.
He runs down his entire time balance and times out. I breathe out.
3-bet AQ on baby board
Villain is a 22/16, seems like a decent player. He opens UTG which makes me a bit wary, but I think I get value here 3-betting and take control in position.
Flop comes paired all small cards. Ugh. I fucking hate these spots. Am I meant to check behind here? Am I meant to c-bet? I cbet $21 and he insta-ships. Obv he has an overpair, easy fold. I just really hate playing AK/AQ in a 3-bet pot when it's likely villain has an overpair. Maybe I make enough profit from cbetting decent boards and making hands to make 3-betting here profitable, but I hate these hands. Something I'm going to work on with Messiah.
Double-barrell OOP with NFD
Villain is 22/6 here. I think I make a mistake by double-barrelling here. I think he's floating me on the flop maybe like 20% of the time. I don't think I'm folding out much on the turn he's called me with on the river. Probably best checking the turn I guess. He raises my turn bet big and I'm gone.
lol I love this hand
Villain is a MASSIVE donk. Over the past 30mins he's just jizzed his chips all over the table. When he calls the flop I'm not too happy, but obv I'm getting it in every time. :)
Can I call here in pos to draw?
Obv I'm mucking it without the cold caller. But can I call in position now with the bigger pot and implied odds? Or is this still a fold?
First coaching session tomorrow
I've got my first session with Messiah tomorrow night, really looking forward to that one... seeing as people are pretty interested in the coaching thing I'll try to blog a bit about it too. Upon his request I've supplied my last 15k stats from PT, including positional stats, and a bunch of hands with reads and analysis that I think I'm having the most problems with. It's clear that postflop - mainly in raised pots, handreading, and LAG play are the areas I really want to improve in... and it seems like he's happy to tailor the sessions around this. I won't be done the session 'til 2am tomorrow night, but I'll try to get a short report in the following day.
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