Bankroll after week 2: £602.43
Friday was a shocker. I played very poorly at the start of the session. After 1k hands I had the hands to be in profit, but I found myself down $50 due to avoidable mistakes. I played better towards the end of the day, but then the run-bad kicked in and I ended the day down $155.
On Saturday I considered taking the day off. I was still frustrated with how I played on Friday and thought that might negatively affect my play. I managed to turn that into a positive – I made sure that I remained focused and considered each major decision carefully. I was tempted to grind back to even but at the time I planned to end the tables weren’t fantastic so rather than force a return to the green I thought I’d call it a day and I feel very happy with the recovery and positive about next weekend.
Goals
I think one of the reasons for my Friday tilt was my unwritten, unrealistic goals. I was trying to crush instead of focusing on each hand and every decision. I think it would help to put down some realistic goals to measure my performance and keep my results in perspective.
Week 3: 10k hands
October: 40k hands
2014: £1000+ bankroll
Notable hands:
PokerStars – $0.25 NL – Holdem – 9 players
MP+2 (MP+2): 100 BB (VPIP: 11.18, PFR: 6.47, 3Bet Preflop: 2.60, Hands: 173)
CO (CO): 80 BB (VPIP: 9.09, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB (SB): 113.08 BB (VPIP: 14.63, PFR: 12.20, 3Bet Preflop: 4.70, Hands: 371)
BB (BB): 68.76 BB (VPIP: 63.64, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
UTG (UTG): 228.64 BB (VPIP: 22.68, PFR: 16.63, 3Bet Preflop: 6.92, Hands: 816)
UTG+1 (UTG+1): 151.12 BB (VPIP: 26.96, PFR: 21.26, 3Bet Preflop: 5.98, Hands: 656)
MP (MP): 100 BB (VPIP: 17.46, PFR: 15.08, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 126)
MP+1 (MP+1): 104.08 BB
SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Dealt to Hero:
Ah 5h
fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 2 BB, Hero calls 2 BB, fold, BB raises to 3 BB, CO calls 1 BB, Hero calls 1 BB
Flop (9.4 BB, 3 players):
Ac 6h 4h
BB bets 4.48 BB, CO calls 4.48 BB, Hero raises to 24 BB, BB calls 19.52 BB, fold
Turn (61.88 BB, 2 players):
4c
BB bets 41.76 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 41.76 BB
River (145.4 BB, 2 players):
5d
BB shows:
Jc Jh
(Two Pair, Jacks and Fours)
(Pre 67%, Flop 7%, Turn 5%)
Hero shows:
Ah 5h
(Two Pair, Aces and Fives)
(Pre 33%, Flop 93%, Turn 95%)
Hero wins 138.84 BB
I decided that I had too much equity to just call the flop, I have nearly 50% equity vs AK so I was quite happy to just raise flop planning on calling any turn. I thought there was a chance he would put me on an unpaired flush draw and call down with KK, he turned up with JJ so that makes raise clearly better vs. this player.
PokerStars – $0.25 NL – Holdem – 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
UTG+1 (UTG+1): 100 BB (VPIP: 23.08, PFR: 15.38, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 13)
Hero (MP): 100 BB
MP+1 (MP+1): 100 BB (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 8)
CO (CO): 137 BB (VPIP: 26.29, PFR: 12.00, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 175)
BTN (BTN): 105.56 BB (VPIP: 71.43, PFR: 57.14, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
SB (SB): 100 BB (VPIP: 15.79, PFR: 7.89, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 39)
BB (BB): 106.56 BB (VPIP: 18.54, PFR: 9.27, 3Bet Preflop: 3.76, Hands: 611)
UTG (UTG): 100.76 BB (VPIP: 14.08, PFR: 12.64, 3Bet Preflop: 5.43, Hands: 353)
SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB
Dealt to Hero:
Jd Js
fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, fold, CO calls 3 BB, fold, fold, fold
Flop (7.4 BB, 2 players):
2c Kd Ks
Hero bets 4.8 BB, CO calls 4.8 BB
Turn (17 BB, 2 players):
2d
Hero checks, CO bets 10 BB, Hero calls 10 BB
River (37 BB, 2 players):
Th
Hero checks, CO bets 52 BB, Hero calls 52 BB
CO shows:
Ah Kc
(Full House, Kings full of Twos)
(Pre 43%, Flop 93%, Turn 100%)
Hero mucks:
Jd Js
(Two Pair, Kings and Jacks)
(Pre 57%, Flop 7%, Turn 0%)
CO wins 134.64 BB
I thought a player with 15% cold call (and 40% fold to cbet over small sample) will have an awful lot of hands going into the turn here, so I was happy to bet flop for value and c/c turn. On the river, I didn’t believe he’d overbet a king too often (what’s he expecting me to call with?), but I’m probably just giving a fish too much credit here. I still think it’s a reasonable call but I’d be interested to hear other opinions on this.
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