other shoe gonna drop?

Played another short session and ended up just over two buy-ins.  I've been really tired recently while I'm playing.  Borrowed a page from Jensen and made sure that I stopped while I was ahead.  Major difference I've seen in my play recently is that I haven't been making the thin calls and plays I was making before.   I know that I'm probably leaving money on the table, but it's really affect the volatility.  I may start opening up again when I feel a little more comfortable with my bankroll.

Cards have been runing good for a couple of days which makes me wonder if I've just been on a mild heater and if the days of losses are just waiting around the corner.  I'm still not liking my stats, but that's a work in progress.  I still think I still need to make a couple of PF adjustments.

19.4 vpip (this is around where I expect to be)

11.2 pfr ( a little low)

4.32 AF (kinda high)

2.5 3B (a bit low, but I still have a hard time with this)

115 minutes

509 hands

+54.80

Quick Update

Just finished a quick session. Things were a little rough starting, but the cards cooperated when I needed them to. I didn't lose any huge hands, but there were a ton of small hands I didn't get away from. I played a lot tighter but a lot more aggressive than normal playing about 15.2/8/6 for the session. Things at work have been kind of hectic so I wanted to get back into the habit of updating right after the session so that this is a little more regular.

Here's one hand that is bothering me, though. The player was playing fairly tight. I think I made the right decision, but I still wanted to make this call.



132 minutes
686 hands
+47.35

weekend update

Haven't really had much to talk about recently. Played Wednesday and Thursday dropping about 1 1/2 buy-ins. The weekend's sessions went fairly well and I actually ended up gaining ground instead of dropping 3-4 buy-ins like I normally do. I was hitting a fair amount of hands and getting paid off. I also feel like I did a better job of keeping pots smaller with my marginal holdings and a better job of getting away from TPGK, TPTK which are hands I've been way overplaying recently.
In honor of my friend, Jensen, here is a hand that really set this guy on my table off. He had me all the way, but the poker gods were kind.

I read this hand right and decided to gamble, but wasn't rewarded. It's the luck of the draw, right?



This last hand, I'm wondering if I could have extracted more value after flopping the boat. I was really hoping my opponent was drawing to the flush which would have almost guaranteed a stack off. Do you think I could have extracted more value without the guy folding?

Bleeding chips

Looks like I'm still having problems with my HEM stats. My export doesn't show last night's session. Played a two hour session last night and lost just over one buy in. Lot of decent starting hands, stole a lot of blinds, but didn't connect with any of my bigger hands. Oh, unless we want to talk about getting screwed with KK on a 3, 8, J rainbow board. There was a maniac on the table who just kept pushing. Was going to look him up a hand before with AQs, but got the KK the next hand. The guy pushed with KQh and ended up catching runner-runner for his flush. Two hands later, he jumped off the table.

Kind of pissed me off, but it didn't set me on tilt which is an improvement. Playing 3-4 tables, it's so easy to be down a buy-in just playing the hands I'm supposed to be playing. I'd like to have a day or two with solid results just to boost my confidence. I don't think I'm playing that badly, and I reviewed my hand selections for the past several sessions.

I'm playing a little more out of position than I should, but the hands have been mostly strong. I do need to drop the speculative hands, though. In position, I've been playing a whole bunch of stuff that I need to really narrow. I guess that's something to work on over the next several days.

bad night

Lost close to a buy in tonight. Played a fairly long session that went back and forth. I had one big hand where I made a bad decision with AK after I flopped TPTK.



I just couldn't really connect with anything and was bleeding chips playing rather aggressively. I couldn't really recover from the hand above. Not much to say other than that.

165 Mins
799 Hands
-21.15

Changed computers, lost information, decent weekend

I didn't play a whole lot this weekend, but still put in a decent number of hands. Problem is that I really can't tell what my specific stats are. I changed computers this past Saturday. I've been able to get HEM running, but I've had some trouble loading the past data from my old computer. It kind of sucked yesterday playing against guys I know I've played before and not having stats on them.

The good news is that for the first time in a long time I ended the weekend in the black instead of dropping three to four buy-ins. There were a couple of hands I wanted to post, but my HUD shut off half way through the session. I need to work on my play against more aggressive players. I know that I should be willing to call down with thinner holdings, but I just have a hard time doing it.

All in all, though, I'm fairly happy with my play this weekend.

hands ????
time ?????
net: +53.50

lackluster night again

Tried playing a deep stack table in addition to two normal tables last night. The cards just weren't cooperating and I just keep leaking chips on all of the tables. I had a number of monster draws, but nothing hit. Thing that sucks is that my oppenents had hands each time.

All in all, I'm fairly happy with my play last night. There a couple of hands that I got stubborn and didn't want to let go of what I was sure was a loser. Oh, and a hand where I doubled someone up with set vs. over-set which caused me to ultimately have a losing session, but like I said, all in all, it wasn't bad considering what I was being dealt.

I ended up dropping $10.20 overall. I've updated the totals, but will have to look for the actual session stats.