No results in the 25-50 to report since last time which is good news really seeing as I would have just jumped in and played in times gone by. But my partner is telling me when my targets are present and if the games are not juicy enough then I dont play…..its that simple. All rather basic really but its amazing how you fail to do the little things at times.
I think that I needed to go back to basics and rework my swing (to quote a golfing expression). Anyway what else has been happening, well I have still been in training on the NL50 and NL100 games on Cake Poker and I am having to learn a whole new poker game I can tell you.
I have played just under 50 hours this month doing this and I have gotton skinned by having KK under AA quite a few times. What I need to realise is that KK versus AA is not only far more common when you are 6-8 tabling full-ring games than it is one table at 25-50, but also that the betting indicates a real hand more than it does at 25-50.
EXAMPLE……today I have KK…..open raise, player in cut-off three bets and I four bet and they five bet and shove their stack all in (it was still a sizeable all in shove)……I called. This is where it is causing me problems switching from 25-50 six max to NL50/NL100 games because very aggressive players will do this more often at these levels with weaker hands.
But one of these days I am going to wake up and smell the coffee and stop getting all in for 100BB pre-flop with KK in NL50 games and listen to what the betting is actually telling me. Thats just it with these games, you can trust what the betting is telling you most of the time. Like yesterday, folded to me in the hijack with Q-10 and I open raise to x3BB. Cut-off min raises me.
Now I am thinking that they are thinking that I am stealing (which i am) and are putting me to the test…..not a great thing to do as you are guessing. So I re-raise again to put the pressure back on them and to let them know that I really have a hand…..they call.
Flop comes all low cards and I bet the pot and they shove…..pot odds are about 10/1 so I call the remaining $10…..they show KK. My play was terrible on many counts. Open raise was OK but when I was min-raised I should have either called and seen a flop or folded. I allowed myself to get into a silly ego war and get committed to going all in with nothing……bad poker.
I am actually out thinking myself on occasions, it is no use thinking multi-dimensionally if your opponents are only thinking on one. Still its been a good training month and am still $950 ahead which is 19 buy-ins. I reckon next month will be better as my game will be stronger.
Havent played any PLO or HUNLHE since last post.
See ya soon
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