Probably shouldn't have played any poker yesterday. I was knackered, this week has short-circuited my brain I think.
Only had one table running with 861 in tandem.
Did a stack at NL8 running a pointless bluff on a decent player (hi Bossman!)... in all ways possible I butchered that hand and the poker gods fairly left me without even the split pot out(s) I thought I may have had before the river was dealt lol. I'm too embarrassed to even post that up on here
Apart from the hand itself, pointless getting into big pots with the decent player when there are others at the table you can take far easier money from.
Then that table broke and there weren't many open seats so switched to NL20. Won a few smaller pots, then got aces, 3b pre from BB, flopped a set, kept betting, got outdrawn by a gutshot and paid them off. Numpty me.
Actually I think part of that hand was a result of the first orbit I sat for where I raised every hand pre and possibly gave people the impression I was spewing chips. Not true, I just got dealt a PP every hand for my first 6 hands, 5s, 9s, 10s, Js, Qs and Aces. Unfortunately I got nothing but folds pre or the occasional call then fold a 1/2 pot Cbet on the flop.
Maybe should be careful what I wish for when I hope to get decent starting hands more frequently
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20: Owwww! This was harsh viewing - just the way the cards play. Flopping trips and then the st8 coming through on the River, it gave me chills (brrrr)!
Pudd x
So last night involved very limited amount of poker as I inadvertently got booked into to go to a friend's house for dinner... so the 800m hand freeroll was the limit of my playing. Having squeezed in around 15mins play before I had to leave, it was a bit of a drag as even though my tournament play is sketchy, deep stacked vs the 5 oppo on my table I was easily picking up lots of little pots and building a bit of a buffer. Then drove at breakneck speed to said friend's house and while shaking hands / hugging etc was simultaneously logging on to Sky via my phone (addict? moi?) Wish I hadn't now, as I lasted precisely... one hand. Sigh. I repeat my weak tournament play and need to knuckle down to improve, so please feel free to pull this play apart. Yes random oppo got lucky, but am I ever really going to get three streets / full stack value in this spot? I figure at the minimum, I should check river and then aim to bluff catch? Player Action Cards Amount Pot Balance shakinaces Small blind 50.00 50.00 1675.00 villain Big blind 100.00 150.00 2835.00 Your hole cards A 9 xxx Fold xxx Fold xxx Fold xxx Fold shakinaces Raise 150.00 300.00 1525.00 villain Call 100.00 400.00 2735.00 Flop A 8 A shakinaces Bet 200.00 600.00 1325.00 villain Call 200.00 800.00 2535.00 Turn 6 shakinaces Bet 400.00 1200.00 925.00 villain Call 400.00 1600.00 2135.00 River 7 shakinaces All-in 925.00 2525.00 0.00 villain Call 925.00 3450.00 1210.00 shakinaces Show A 9 villain Show 9 10 villain Win Straight to the 10 3450.00 4660.00 Posted by shakinaces
In other news - loving this thread. Very enjoyable read - how do you post the hand list to the thread - I can find my hands, just not the way to post them??
£1,497.64 Probably shouldn't have played any poker yesterday. I was knackered, this week has short-circuited my brain I think. Only had one table running with 861 in tandem. Did a stack at NL8 running a pointless bluff on a decent player (hi Bossman!)... in all ways possible I butchered that hand and the poker gods fairly left me without even the split pot out(s) I thought I may have had before the river was dealt lol. I'm too embarrassed to even post that up on here Apart from the hand itself, pointless getting into big pots with the decent player when there are others at the table you can take far easier money from. Then that table broke and there weren't many open seats so switched to NL20. Won a few smaller pots, then got aces, 3b pre from BB, flopped a set, kept betting, got outdrawn by a gutshot and paid them off. Numpty me. Actually I think part of that hand was a result of the first orbit I sat for where I raised every hand pre and possibly gave people the impression I was spewing chips. Not true, I just got dealt a PP every hand for my first 6 hands, 5s, 9s, 10s, Js, Qs and Aces. Unfortunately I got nothing but folds pre or the occasional call then fold a 1/2 pot Cbet on the flop. Maybe should be careful what I wish for when I hope to get decent starting hands more frequently Posted by shakinaces
Stubborn fish is probably a more accurate description!!
In other news - loving this thread. Very enjoyable read - how do you post the hand list to the thread - I can find my hands, just not the way to post them?? Pudd x Posted by ThePudding
Hi Pudd, thanks for the feedback and look forward to reading your thread as it evolves.
It looks like you almost have the hand posting down... normally the only issue is that you need to have Internet Explorer or Firefox to post, all other browsers distort Sky hand histories for some reason?
Well that was just pretty brutal when I played this weekend. I can't seem to have NL20 tables running without dropping a wedge.
I don't think it's particularly bad play on my part, although others at the table may disagree.
The big pots I lost on Saturday were flopped 2nd set vs top set, flopped K-high flush that went down to a rivered A-high flush, AA that lost to a flopped flush (shortish-stack shoved the flop) and a flopped straight that lost to a rivered higher straight.
To be honest, after all those in the space of about 30 mins, I gave up and went back to reading my book.
'Alligator Blood' was finished in super quick time. It's very nerdy but at the same time very interesting to hear about what went on in the build-up to Black Friday. I'm sure there is a large amount of artistic impression by the author, but by all accounts it sounds like Full Tilt/Stars could maybe have gotten away with their misdemeanours, at least for a few more years, were it not for some of the cut-throat behaviour elsewhere in the chain.
Anyway, well recommended book.
No poker on Sunday as I was still shaking a bit after sanding floors. Watched some vids on youtube instead.
One particularly interesting vid was Phil Galfond talking (and coughing) over a two-table NL$2k session:
I appreciate I'm unlikely to ever play at these levels, but I think a lot of the concepts prove valid at any level.
Most suprising (refreshing) was the lack of HUD and lack of notes, which I thought would be standard for any pro these days.
Also a good reminder of how little a top player actually bluffs in a standard session against unknowns. I definitely bluff way too much at NL10 and need to work on that if I'm to increase my win rate.
Doesn't sound like you could have avoided doing your stack in any of those hands. I think it was a good decision to call it a day after that. Opinions vary on this kind of thing. Some will say as long as you're playing well then you should grind through it. Others will argue that even if you have been unlucky to this point, if you carry on then you can begin to chase your losses without even realising it sometimes and your play drops a level.
On only vaguely related poker matters, on the way to work this morning I finally placed where I recognise one of the many builders currently working in my house. Absolute spitting image of Simon 'Aces' Trumper... called Simon as well coincidentally... maybe times are tough at DTD and he's seeking a way to earn a bit on the side... Posted by shakinaces
Just seen this.
As it happens, Simon used to be, sort of, involved in construction.
He owned & rented out high pressure water jetters which are used, amongst other things, to clear blocked drains & sewage lines. Even more oddly, so did I.
Incidentally, Simon should be on this Thursday's Show, on Ch 861. We could discuss such matters.
Another mare of a day yesterday. Dropped most of it playing NL10 where I was in position against a monster stack (was around £140 when I gave up and went for dinner). Had been using it to bully the table with the route of c/r flop, pot turn, pot river and although they'd got lots of folds, they had showed up a lot of hands with busted draws, bottom end of 4-straight, weak pairs etc.
I thought I was getting clever when I let them just take this route as I was sat in position to them with AA, after spending most of that table getting dealt junk and folding pre.
All flopped draws missed by the river.
He turns over a random two pair and it's bye bye c/250bb stack.
Sigh.
Came back on after dinner, thought I'd multi-table NL4 and try to book a winning session, am starting to forget what they are like and thought it might get me back on track. Plus if it is a downswing, why not reduce the damage of the losses!
Didn't really go to plan, was over £30 down at one point, over 7BI at NL4 ffs lol... I genuinely don't think I was playing at all badly, just kept running into monsters or getting sucked out on.
Thankfully kept my head and by the time I gave up I was about £1 down.
So another negative number on the spreadsheet, but pulling back £30 losses at NL4 made it almost feel like a win lol
May look back into some sort of in-game coaching session as a way to confirm it is run-bad rather than play-bad. Appreciate it's easy to remember the run-bad part of hands, potentially overlooking that it was play-bad earlier in the hand/session that opened the door to the bad luck.
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20 : Just seen this. As it happens, Simon used to be, sort of, involved in construction. He owned & rented out high pressure water jetters which are used, amongst other things, to clear blocked drains & sewage lines. Even more oddly, so did I. Incidentally, Simon should be on this Thursday's Show, on Ch 861. We could discuss such matters. Posted by Tikay10
Good stuff, will have to make sure I find an hour or so to watch, he's normally decent value on the show.
I probably need to find a company like that as well... one of the many, many random jobs it turns out you need to factor in at a new house...
sorry to see you've been struggling of late, it's horrible when your b/r goes backwards isn't it, as i well know
just keep on doing the right things and you'll be fine.
i find it helps if you look back to the beginning of the month & see what your b/r was then compared to now, after a bad session or two, and as long as you are still in profit, then all is good in the world.
the 'when do you stop' when u r losing a session issue is a personal thing i think. i always used to play as long as needed to win it back, playing dym's, but now i think a stop loss figure isn't so bad, especially at cash where the swings can be massive.
think it all depends how you feel the next day, and if you believe you can win it back pretty quickly then there's no harm in any big losing sessions. as long as we don't tilt or change our way of playing, ie; start chasing it back then it's fine, but i'm sure if we are honest about it, most of us do, to some extent anyway.
anyway mate, had my say. hope you run better today,
In Response to Re: a fish en route to NL20 : Hmm, I'm not sure it's stubborn or fishy to just call down when you hold the stone cold nuts and have someone doing all the betting for you lol BTW is your screen name an homage to the ex-WWE wrestler? Posted by shakinaces
Nothing to do with the Big Bossman I am afraid. When I signed up to SKY I used what I thought would be my alias as my username and couldnt think of another. I asked my eldest son what I should call myself and he said the bossman. As that was taken I decided to go for the "hood" version and ended up with this
Big Boss Man was my favourite wrestler growing up, from his crowd favourite, blue shirt black 'pants' combo days of the early 90's, to the SWAT version later that decade and early 00's. All my friends had such predictable favourites (Triple H, Austin, Rock, Undertaker etc etc), but I stuck to my guns and stuck with the former prison guard.
Unfortunately like so many wrestlers of that era, he is 6 feet under. Only 41 when he died 10 years ago.
As Macho Man Randy Savage may have once said 'Oooooo Yeah!'
A profitable day at last... for a whole... wait for it... 89p.
Entirely unimpressive number, yet oddly satisfying to not have to key a negative number to my poker spreadsheet at last.
After having read a bit more of the Mental Game of Poker last night, on a scale of -3 to +3:
Tilt control +3 (way too boring to be anything other than 'in control' the whole session) Quality of my play 0 (distinctly average while trying to not book another loss) Variance 0 (cards didn't chuck up anything particularly good or bad) Focus -1 (somewhat distracted by ch861 running in the corner of my laptop screen)
At some point before the weekend I'll start to list out the (many) simple things I need to revisit in my learning time. A few too many things have maybe entered autopilot mode and lead to many silly mistakes that should be easily corrected.
Big Boss Man was my favourite wrestler growing up, from his crowd favourite, blue shirt black 'pants' combo days of the early 90's, to the SWAT version later that decade and early 00's. All my friends had such predictable favourites (Triple H, Austin, Rock, Undertaker etc etc), but I stuck to my guns and stuck with the former prison guard. Unfortunately like so many wrestlers of that era, he is 6 feet under. Only 41 when he died 10 years ago. Posted by hhyftrftdr
I don't really follow it so much now. Probably shows my age to say that the Ultimate Warrior was always my favourite, another sadly departed at a young age.
Also makes me hark back to my very early years, when the highlight of the day was wandering home from school with some coins saved by buying the bare minimum from the canteen at lunchtime, and hanging out in the independent video store to play on their small collection of arcade games... the absolute daddy (until it was superceded by Street Fighter II) being WWF WrestleFest.
Witness the genius of Warrior and Boss Man teaming up to take on Hogan and Slaughter:
The odd things you remember from childhood - at the time (age 13 3/4) this was the greatest event ever, bar none. I forget who was 'Player Zero', I think it was a kid called Dogger, a nickname gained before the events of Stan Collymore led to it having a more seedy meaning.
Anyway, one Saturday lunchtime he'd gone to play a bit of WrestleFest, stuck a quid in that he'd nabbed from his Mum's purse, which somehow got stuck halfway down the coin slot and continued to register an extra 4 credits every minute or so. Infinite credits on the greatest arcade game that existed in the early 90s.
Bare in mind this was an innocent time before the spread of mobile phones, so a network of young kids commenced to cycle round the town to call on mates and share the earth-shattering news. The teenage assistant at the video hire shop was obviously confused but too apathetic to do anything about the near-100 strong army of younger kids cramped into the shop and leaving no room for people actually wanting a video.
Free winner-stays-on tag team matches all day until we finally got kicked out about 10pm. My standard Ultimate Warrior / Earthquake-combo got me a best streak of 4 games before the RSI of constant button bashing saw me tire.
Good times.
But yeah Ultimate Warrior (RIP) was the best.
"DIG YOUR CLAWS INTO MY ORGANS! STRETCH INTO MY TENDONS! BURY YOUR ANCHORS INTO MY BONES FOR THE POWER OF THE WARRIOR WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL!"
Constant button bashing? It's like you've been watching me play poker!
Earthquake and Macho Man, another 2 of that era gone.
That arcade game is a bit before my time Haven't watched it for years, think the industry nose dived when WCW went under, leaving WWE to clean up with zero pressure on actually producing quality wrestlers and credible storylines. Way too family friendly these days as well! We want to see Mankind falling from the top of a **** in a cell cage, dammit.
And about time to. Definitely played a lot better, picking some good spots to pick up little bits and pieces. Probably helped highlight that I left lots of room for improvement in games over the last week and a bit.
Tilt control +2 (table may have taken a light punch following one hand... no biggie tho) Quality of my play +1 (tailed off a bit towards the end and think I missed a few value bets) Variance -1 (there was definitely some + variance in there as well though - missing a K-high flush draw and winning a pot with 1 pair vs the A-high flush draw, for example) Focus +1 (first hour was a +3, beast mode, towards end of session was a 0 and falling fast)
Tweaked bet sizing which I think helps a lot with keeping pots sensible. 2.5x button, 4x utg and 3x everywhere else. Probably do need to keep an eye on the table though and pump way bigger against certain players.
Had a bash at the cheapskate BH at 8.05. First two hands KK and AA. Then this came along on my 2nd BB
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
bry_1965
Small blind
10.00
10.00
1880.00
shakinaces
Big blind
20.00
30.00
2280.00
Your hole cards
4
2
JARON
Call
20.00
50.00
2030.00
FLOBOSNAN
Call
20.00
70.00
1730.00
numb_bum
Fold
RossMc
Fold
bry_1965
Fold
shakinaces
Check
Flop
2
4
4
shakinaces
Bet
60.00
130.00
2220.00
JARON
Call
60.00
190.00
1970.00
FLOBOSNAN
Raise
120.00
310.00
1610.00
shakinaces
Raise
260.00
570.00
1960.00
JARON
Call
260.00
830.00
1710.00
FLOBOSNAN
Call
200.00
1030.00
1410.00
Turn
2
shakinaces
Bet
560.00
1590.00
1400.00
JARON
Fold
FLOBOSNAN
Call
560.00
2150.00
850.00
River
K
shakinaces
All-in
1400.00
3550.00
0.00
FLOBOSNAN
All-in
850.00
4400.00
0.00
shakinaces
Unmatched bet
550.00
3850.00
550.00
shakinaces
Show
4
2
FLOBOSNAN
Show
6
6
shakinaces
Win
Full House, 4s and 2s
3850.00
4400.00
Alas, I then let myself be dumped out playing a raggy ace without any further heads.
Player
Action
Cards
Amount
Pot
Balance
biggs10
Small blind
75.00
75.00
4890.00
KITTY_KAT
Big blind
150.00
225.00
2330.00
Your hole cards
6
A
COOKIE31
Fold
luckyme804
Fold
shakinaces
Raise
300.00
525.00
4625.00
biggs10
Call
225.00
750.00
4665.00
KITTY_KAT
Fold
Flop
10
Q
4
biggs10
Check
shakinaces
Check
Turn
6
biggs10
Check
shakinaces
Check
River
6
biggs10
All-in
4665.00
5415.00
0.00
shakinaces
All-in
4625.00
10040.00
0.00
biggs10
Unmatched bet
40.00
10000.00
40.00
biggs10
Show
4
4
shakinaces
Show
6
A
biggs10
Win
Full House, 4s and 6s
10000.00
10040.00
I guess I should have figured him for a house of some sort to have overbet the pot so much. I raised pre because the BB had been sitting out for some time and I hoped to nab some easy chips. Would have been happy to check down from that point, albeit would have obv chucked a little value bet in myself on the river.
Sigh. I still suck way more at tournament than cash!
So with the good (or lucky lol) and bad in the BH, the ugly came towards the end of the cash session.
This is one area that I always run poorly - a maniac sits at the table, I (probably) play too tight, eventually play a hand with them, lose, then watch them spew their stack to another reg before insta-standing. Probably need to work on what ranges I go to war with against them / how I go to war.
Obv this one is just bad luck, but when maniac is opening 9x, and 2x pot or all in on any flop, perhaps I need a range of 3b shove hands to go with and just let variance take me for a rollercoaster ride?
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Probably shouldn't have played any poker yesterday. I was knackered, this week has short-circuited my brain I think.
Only had one table running with 861 in tandem.
Did a stack at NL8 running a pointless bluff on a decent player (hi Bossman!)... in all ways possible I butchered that hand and the poker gods fairly left me without even the split pot out(s) I thought I may have had before the river was dealt lol. I'm too embarrassed to even post that up on here
Apart from the hand itself, pointless getting into big pots with the decent player when there are others at the table you can take far easier money from.
Then that table broke and there weren't many open seats so switched to NL20. Won a few smaller pots, then got aces, 3b pre from BB, flopped a set, kept betting, got outdrawn by a gutshot and paid them off. Numpty me.
Actually I think part of that hand was a result of the first orbit I sat for where I raised every hand pre and possibly gave people the impression I was spewing chips. Not true, I just got dealt a PP every hand for my first 6 hands, 5s, 9s, 10s, Js, Qs and Aces. Unfortunately I got nothing but folds pre or the occasional call then fold a 1/2 pot Cbet on the flop.
Maybe should be careful what I wish for when I hope to get decent starting hands more frequently
It looks like you almost have the hand posting down... normally the only issue is that you need to have Internet Explorer or Firefox to post, all other browsers distort Sky hand histories for some reason?
BTW is your screen name an homage to the ex-WWE wrestler?
Well that was just pretty brutal when I played this weekend. I can't seem to have NL20 tables running without dropping a wedge.
I don't think it's particularly bad play on my part, although others at the table may disagree.
The big pots I lost on Saturday were flopped 2nd set vs top set, flopped K-high flush that went down to a rivered A-high flush, AA that lost to a flopped flush (shortish-stack shoved the flop) and a flopped straight that lost to a rivered higher straight.
To be honest, after all those in the space of about 30 mins, I gave up and went back to reading my book.
'Alligator Blood' was finished in super quick time. It's very nerdy but at the same time very interesting to hear about what went on in the build-up to Black Friday. I'm sure there is a large amount of artistic impression by the author, but by all accounts it sounds like Full Tilt/Stars could maybe have gotten away with their misdemeanours, at least for a few more years, were it not for some of the cut-throat behaviour elsewhere in the chain.
Anyway, well recommended book.
No poker on Sunday as I was still shaking a bit after sanding floors. Watched some vids on youtube instead.
One particularly interesting vid was Phil Galfond talking (and coughing) over a two-table NL$2k session:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWbBx6fkKg
I appreciate I'm unlikely to ever play at these levels, but I think a lot of the concepts prove valid at any level.
Most suprising (refreshing) was the lack of HUD and lack of notes, which I thought would be standard for any pro these days.
Also a good reminder of how little a top player actually bluffs in a standard session against unknowns. I definitely bluff way too much at NL10 and need to work on that if I'm to increase my win rate.
As it happens, Simon used to be, sort of, involved in construction.
He owned & rented out high pressure water jetters which are used, amongst other things, to clear blocked drains & sewage lines. Even more oddly, so did I.
Incidentally, Simon should be on this Thursday's Show, on Ch 861. We could discuss such matters.
Another mare of a day yesterday. Dropped most of it playing NL10 where I was in position against a monster stack (was around £140 when I gave up and went for dinner). Had been using it to bully the table with the route of c/r flop, pot turn, pot river and although they'd got lots of folds, they had showed up a lot of hands with busted draws, bottom end of 4-straight, weak pairs etc.
I thought I was getting clever when I let them just take this route as I was sat in position to them with AA, after spending most of that table getting dealt junk and folding pre.
All flopped draws missed by the river.
He turns over a random two pair and it's bye bye c/250bb stack.
Sigh.
Came back on after dinner, thought I'd multi-table NL4 and try to book a winning session, am starting to forget what they are like and thought it might get me back on track. Plus if it is a downswing, why not reduce the damage of the losses!
Didn't really go to plan, was over £30 down at one point, over 7BI at NL4 ffs lol... I genuinely don't think I was playing at all badly, just kept running into monsters or getting sucked out on.
Thankfully kept my head and by the time I gave up I was about £1 down.
So another negative number on the spreadsheet, but pulling back £30 losses at NL4 made it almost feel like a win lol
May look back into some sort of in-game coaching session as a way to confirm it is run-bad rather than play-bad. Appreciate it's easy to remember the run-bad part of hands, potentially overlooking that it was play-bad earlier in the hand/session that opened the door to the bad luck.
I probably need to find a company like that as well... one of the many, many random jobs it turns out you need to factor in at a new house...
Unfortunately like so many wrestlers of that era, he is 6 feet under. Only 41 when he died 10 years ago.
As Macho Man Randy Savage may have once said 'Oooooo Yeah!'
A profitable day at last... for a whole... wait for it... 89p.
Entirely unimpressive number, yet oddly satisfying to not have to key a negative number to my poker spreadsheet at last.
After having read a bit more of the Mental Game of Poker last night, on a scale of -3 to +3:
Tilt control +3 (way too boring to be anything other than 'in control' the whole session)
Quality of my play 0 (distinctly average while trying to not book another loss)
Variance 0 (cards didn't chuck up anything particularly good or bad)
Focus -1 (somewhat distracted by ch861 running in the corner of my laptop screen)
At some point before the weekend I'll start to list out the (many) simple things I need to revisit in my learning time. A few too many things have maybe entered autopilot mode and lead to many silly mistakes that should be easily corrected.
Also makes me hark back to my very early years, when the highlight of the day was wandering home from school with some coins saved by buying the bare minimum from the canteen at lunchtime, and hanging out in the independent video store to play on their small collection of arcade games... the absolute daddy (until it was superceded by Street Fighter II) being WWF WrestleFest.
Witness the genius of Warrior and Boss Man teaming up to take on Hogan and Slaughter:
The odd things you remember from childhood - at the time (age 13 3/4) this was the greatest event ever, bar none. I forget who was 'Player Zero', I think it was a kid called Dogger, a nickname gained before the events of Stan Collymore led to it having a more seedy meaning.
Anyway, one Saturday lunchtime he'd gone to play a bit of WrestleFest, stuck a quid in that he'd nabbed from his Mum's purse, which somehow got stuck halfway down the coin slot and continued to register an extra 4 credits every minute or so. Infinite credits on the greatest arcade game that existed in the early 90s.
Bare in mind this was an innocent time before the spread of mobile phones, so a network of young kids commenced to cycle round the town to call on mates and share the earth-shattering news. The teenage assistant at the video hire shop was obviously confused but too apathetic to do anything about the near-100 strong army of younger kids cramped into the shop and leaving no room for people actually wanting a video.
Free winner-stays-on tag team matches all day until we finally got kicked out about 10pm. My standard Ultimate Warrior / Earthquake-combo got me a best streak of 4 games before the RSI of constant button bashing saw me tire.
Good times.
But yeah Ultimate Warrior (RIP) was the best.
"DIG YOUR CLAWS INTO MY ORGANS! STRETCH INTO MY TENDONS! BURY YOUR ANCHORS INTO MY BONES FOR THE POWER OF THE WARRIOR WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL!"
Earthquake and Macho Man, another 2 of that era gone.
That arcade game is a bit before my time
£1,428.80
And about time to. Definitely played a lot better, picking some good spots to pick up little bits and pieces. Probably helped highlight that I left lots of room for improvement in games over the last week and a bit.
Tilt control +2 (table may have taken a light punch following one hand... no biggie tho)
Quality of my play +1 (tailed off a bit towards the end and think I missed a few value bets)
Variance -1 (there was definitely some + variance in there as well though - missing a K-high flush draw and winning a pot with 1 pair vs the A-high flush draw, for example)
Focus +1 (first hour was a +3, beast mode, towards end of session was a 0 and falling fast)
Tweaked bet sizing which I think helps a lot with keeping pots sensible. 2.5x button, 4x utg and 3x everywhere else. Probably do need to keep an eye on the table though and pump way bigger against certain players.
Some good, bad and ugly hands to follow.
Had a bash at the cheapskate BH at 8.05. First two hands KK and AA. Then this came along on my 2nd BB
Sigh. I still suck way more at tournament than cash!
This is one area that I always run poorly - a maniac sits at the table, I (probably) play too tight, eventually play a hand with them, lose, then watch them spew their stack to another reg before insta-standing. Probably need to work on what ranges I go to war with against them / how I go to war.
Obv this one is just bad luck, but when maniac is opening 9x, and 2x pot or all in on any flop, perhaps I need a range of 3b shove hands to go with and just let variance take me for a rollercoaster ride?