- Morning-
Woke up early this morning, for no particular reason. Jumped right into a tourney after going out for a run and getting some breakfast. It was the 2k guaranteed bounty. I ended up busting around the middle stages, blinds were getting high and I was card dead as usual haha.
Two hours in I made a big play with 6 7 s, ended up getting called by the big blind with AJ s... end of story. :p Placed 166th/572 players.
Took a break for awhile.. Jumped into a 6 max sit and go, 1st place win after 41 mins of play. Pretty standard. No one really challenged me and I took down all but two pots without a showdown.
-Discipline-
I have a problem staying focused though after a win. I feel like everything is too easy for me and that I can sit on the phone, reply to messages, browse the forums, watch vids on youtube and get a snack whenever! And that is usually my downfall. I always have distractions. I think if I start multi tabling and shut off the phone/aim that I will have much better results. Or even if I could just discipline myself to focus on my opponents, I think my reads will be a lot more solid and clear.
I need to come up with some better abbreviations for my notes as well, it is so annoying when I come across someone I've already played and yet I can't figure out much by the notes that I had taken because 1. they are written in a way where I forgot what I had meant or 2. I wasn't descriptive enough. Luckily I can kind of categorize people pretty quickly. I know who I can absolutely run over and who will try to play back at me, thats for sure.
-Deep Tourney Bust-
Anyhow after a few stupid over aggressive and very distracted insta moves through some sit and gos, I decided to enter the 3k guaranteed tourney ( I won last weeks tourney hehe) This seems to be my strongest game. It is 6 max (of course) Turbo (6 min blind levels) deepstack (3,000 starting chips) I ended up coming in 20th place out of 376 players. Not too bad, but I know I would have gotten to the final table if it wasn't for one very costly mistake.
This actual hand didn't eliminate me but it is the reason I busted for sure...
Here is the hand:
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2000/4000 Blinds 400 Ante (5 handed) -
Button (t13,079)
Hero (SB) (t77,060)
BB (t49,302)
UTG (t97,443)
MP (t45,721)
Preflop: Hero is SB with Ah, Kh
UTG raises to t 16,000, 2 folds, Hero calls t 14,000, 1 fold
Flop: (t38000) Qs, 4c, 8s
Hero bets t 16,000, UTG raises to t 81,043 (All-In), Hero folds
The UTG raiser had been raising up almost every pot for awhile now, I definately should not have tried to trap him at all. The flop was absolutely cruel and my feeler bet was worthless against his hyper aggressive play (what was I thinking, I should have pushed preflop) The bet size was too low to push him off even A high, if he had any sort of draw I can see plenty of reasons to raise and push there.
I had committed half my stack to the hand and insta folded after his all in push. Wow. After losing half my stack on that donkey play the blinds were too high and I had almost no fold equity. I still wonder if he pushed with something like AJ. or AJ/A10 of clubs. Man. I know he didn't have pocket queens because he would have limped in or pushed all in preflop. That was his style with the high pocket pairs. Again.. if I was going to make a play like that I had no business even being in the hand. Should have folded to his small preflop raise. Hah.
-Other Games-
So after kicking myself over that hand for awhile, I won another 6 max sit and go.. god I love those games. They are my bread and butter lately. However, I was getting distracted again and making insta decisions (which is good if you're focused and have good reads but that was not my case)
I decided to try out a cash game... 25c/50c 6 max ring game, bought in for 30 bucks. Last week when I jumped into this game I steamrolled the table for around 200 bucks. Everyone left after that. So I felt good about my edge here. Sure enough, I ended up cashing out with a 153 dollar profit, I will admit I luckboxed a couple hands though. Honestly, it seems all the players around these stakes are either complete fish who will call you down with anything or total rocks who are very easy to outplay. I think I'm going to play 6 max cash games more often.
What about full ring games you say? Well, I just don't have the concentration or patience yet to commit to those. Maybe if I multi table I can do it. But for now I'm sticking with what I'm best at, and that is anything 6 handed. I feel like my headsup skills are getting better as well. Mmm headsup is so much fun. I'm still working out a good strategy for it though, haven't quite decided on which style is best, of course it depends on my opponent.
-Final Notes-
I feel like in the lower stakes (speaking of headsup) its not really wise to go completely hyper aggressive.(with the exception of the rocks) I've had more results with waiting for value betting type hands and slowly chipping away at their stack. And that style works absolutely perfect against those maniac players who like to commit their whole stack right away, that is for sure. (I have fallen victim to many inferior players simply waiting patiently and trapping me in headsup play.. I basically gave them the win because of my aggression factor.)
I Definately need to find the balance. So I think both styles are correct in certain situations, it just all depends on your opponent. Being versatile is a must. That being said I have won all 3 of the headsup games I've played today.
Please note that no matter what style I'm using at the time, it is always best to play many different hands the same way instead of playing certain hands all differently. (Except for future deceptive purposes if you're playing the same people for extended periods, then you can get way more creative.) This saves you many pattern or tell problems from an observant opponent. Let the other guy make those mistakes!
Alright, I apologize for such a long post. Going to finish looking through these hand histories.
Will update later.
-Sydney-
Woke up early this morning, for no particular reason. Jumped right into a tourney after going out for a run and getting some breakfast. It was the 2k guaranteed bounty. I ended up busting around the middle stages, blinds were getting high and I was card dead as usual haha.
Two hours in I made a big play with 6 7 s, ended up getting called by the big blind with AJ s... end of story. :p Placed 166th/572 players.
Took a break for awhile.. Jumped into a 6 max sit and go, 1st place win after 41 mins of play. Pretty standard. No one really challenged me and I took down all but two pots without a showdown.
-Discipline-
I have a problem staying focused though after a win. I feel like everything is too easy for me and that I can sit on the phone, reply to messages, browse the forums, watch vids on youtube and get a snack whenever! And that is usually my downfall. I always have distractions. I think if I start multi tabling and shut off the phone/aim that I will have much better results. Or even if I could just discipline myself to focus on my opponents, I think my reads will be a lot more solid and clear.
I need to come up with some better abbreviations for my notes as well, it is so annoying when I come across someone I've already played and yet I can't figure out much by the notes that I had taken because 1. they are written in a way where I forgot what I had meant or 2. I wasn't descriptive enough. Luckily I can kind of categorize people pretty quickly. I know who I can absolutely run over and who will try to play back at me, thats for sure.
-Deep Tourney Bust-
Anyhow after a few stupid over aggressive and very distracted insta moves through some sit and gos, I decided to enter the 3k guaranteed tourney ( I won last weeks tourney hehe) This seems to be my strongest game. It is 6 max (of course) Turbo (6 min blind levels) deepstack (3,000 starting chips) I ended up coming in 20th place out of 376 players. Not too bad, but I know I would have gotten to the final table if it wasn't for one very costly mistake.
This actual hand didn't eliminate me but it is the reason I busted for sure...
Here is the hand:
Cake Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 2000/4000 Blinds 400 Ante (5 handed) -
Button (t13,079)
Hero (SB) (t77,060)
BB (t49,302)
UTG (t97,443)
MP (t45,721)
Preflop: Hero is SB with Ah, Kh
UTG raises to t 16,000, 2 folds, Hero calls t 14,000, 1 fold
Flop: (t38000) Qs, 4c, 8s
Hero bets t 16,000, UTG raises to t 81,043 (All-In), Hero folds
The UTG raiser had been raising up almost every pot for awhile now, I definately should not have tried to trap him at all. The flop was absolutely cruel and my feeler bet was worthless against his hyper aggressive play (what was I thinking, I should have pushed preflop) The bet size was too low to push him off even A high, if he had any sort of draw I can see plenty of reasons to raise and push there.
I had committed half my stack to the hand and insta folded after his all in push. Wow. After losing half my stack on that donkey play the blinds were too high and I had almost no fold equity. I still wonder if he pushed with something like AJ. or AJ/A10 of clubs. Man. I know he didn't have pocket queens because he would have limped in or pushed all in preflop. That was his style with the high pocket pairs. Again.. if I was going to make a play like that I had no business even being in the hand. Should have folded to his small preflop raise. Hah.
-Other Games-
So after kicking myself over that hand for awhile, I won another 6 max sit and go.. god I love those games. They are my bread and butter lately. However, I was getting distracted again and making insta decisions (which is good if you're focused and have good reads but that was not my case)
I decided to try out a cash game... 25c/50c 6 max ring game, bought in for 30 bucks. Last week when I jumped into this game I steamrolled the table for around 200 bucks. Everyone left after that. So I felt good about my edge here. Sure enough, I ended up cashing out with a 153 dollar profit, I will admit I luckboxed a couple hands though. Honestly, it seems all the players around these stakes are either complete fish who will call you down with anything or total rocks who are very easy to outplay. I think I'm going to play 6 max cash games more often.
What about full ring games you say? Well, I just don't have the concentration or patience yet to commit to those. Maybe if I multi table I can do it. But for now I'm sticking with what I'm best at, and that is anything 6 handed. I feel like my headsup skills are getting better as well. Mmm headsup is so much fun. I'm still working out a good strategy for it though, haven't quite decided on which style is best, of course it depends on my opponent.
-Final Notes-
I feel like in the lower stakes (speaking of headsup) its not really wise to go completely hyper aggressive.(with the exception of the rocks) I've had more results with waiting for value betting type hands and slowly chipping away at their stack. And that style works absolutely perfect against those maniac players who like to commit their whole stack right away, that is for sure. (I have fallen victim to many inferior players simply waiting patiently and trapping me in headsup play.. I basically gave them the win because of my aggression factor.)
I Definately need to find the balance. So I think both styles are correct in certain situations, it just all depends on your opponent. Being versatile is a must. That being said I have won all 3 of the headsup games I've played today.
Please note that no matter what style I'm using at the time, it is always best to play many different hands the same way instead of playing certain hands all differently. (Except for future deceptive purposes if you're playing the same people for extended periods, then you can get way more creative.) This saves you many pattern or tell problems from an observant opponent. Let the other guy make those mistakes!
Alright, I apologize for such a long post. Going to finish looking through these hand histories.
Will update later.
-Sydney-
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