October

Not exactly Steady Eddie eh?

This month was heavily influenced by the fact that I have been ill for 2 weeks out of 3, my mindset was sub par and and the run bad affected me more than I'd like.

Basically I exercised heavily, got ill, got back to exercise too soon and fell ill again.... This shit sucked, and I need to be 100% before I go swimming/weight lifting again.


My game has been volatile as well, and I started robot playing, playing too much oop and being a POW on the river, its easy to get into a rot with multi tabling.

The adjustment was that I started to play too tight, folding blinds and my red line bombing because of that.

I focused on HEM filters to identify where I am losing money, and it was the BB/SB - I was folding too much there by playing passive/folding too much.

SB/BB Graph:

You can see around 7k hands where I ran the filter and realised I need to look for spots where I can exploit people from the blinds.
I was always doing this, but I never managed not to spew massively oop, and I need to choose my spots in the blinds carefully and not be too obvious/imbalanced against the regs.



One thing I have also noticed how NL50 at Stars has changed over the span of 1 year since I was playing there seriously/not just weekends. 4bet bluffing is now a complete standard, and most non-weekend regs are 24/18/ 6-10% 3bet Tags, and there is so few fish compared to the past that simple bumhunt+avoid regs 100% of the time doesn't cut it anymore.
Being aggressive with picking spots carefully and playing a non-spewy game does



P.S.
As always, if you could click on my hands and post comments that would be awesome!

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dude, u need to like review ur game. a lot of ur hands are mega spew.

i would try to consult a group of players.

On October 24 2010 15:23 Zalfor wrote: dude, u need to like review ur game. a lot of ur hands are mega spew. i would try to consult a group of players.

I post all hands I made mistakes/didn't know what to do/messed up/tried unconventional play, and you are the group of players

All my other hands are really ABC standard, and I don't post those.

I'm not really a cash player, but it seems like you have some kind of FPS from some of the hands I've seen posted. Needless to say though, your hands are pretty fun to read over.

I def. have FPS yeah. In fact, from what I have seen from comments counting combos and breaking down ranges seems to be FPS for most SSNL guys ;D

So far I get burned a lot as those unconventional plays work very well when you take 10-30s and evaluate every piece of information you have, but backfire horribly when you are tired/multitable, don't take the time, but still use the unconventional lines that turn from unconventional max EV plays into massive spews.

But what can I do when my role models are Grindcore and Phil Galfond.
Work on not playing tired and taking those 10-30s every time, and I am slowly working towards that :D

Pushing small edges, using 'weird' but most +EV lines and bet sizes, taking extensive reads and using them but playing spew free at the same time= My dream game.

^ well you dont need to play like them at 50nl, prob -EV.

wait, I thought you were "pro"

On October 26 2010 18:47 Uptown wrote: wait, I thought you were "pro"

Yes I am, what makes you think otherwise