Saturday, 25 July 2009

Schedule not there yet

I didn't manage 3k hands yesterday. I'm in the process of changing my sleep schedule to waking around midday and staying up till around 4am. This is simply going to get me the best games to play in. I try not to play for a good 3/4 hours at least after I've woken up as it takes me a while nowadays! At the moment I'm used to waking up between 8 and 9.30, so it's taking a little while to adapt. Yesterday I'd planned to play my last session around 1am-3am, but I was just so tired I had to sleep.

So yesterday I got in 2030 hands and made $208. It was really disappointing actually as I was up around $1.8k after 1900 hands. The last 100 weren't so much fun! I seem to have developed a habit of losing a stack on the last table when I'm either mp or utg and waiting for the blind to come around. I'm going to give it one more chance, and if it happens today I'm going to start quitting the last table after I've played my co.

In the AThh hand from yesterday the guy ended up having 88 for a flopped set. I'm still not sure how I feel about that hand. I think my analysis is sound, however it's probably the case that the weaker regulars at this stake just aren't bluffing in spots like this ever/often enough. I'll probably keep calling until I get shown the nuts a few more times though.

To finish today I'm throwing out a little "Readers of Dodgy's Blog Service Announcement". I'm reminding you today that we win money from poker by playing pots against fish. That is your target. Find tables with some fish. Get in pots with those fish. Win money. Sometimes we have to play pots with regs, and sometimes we spot leaks in them that we can exploit, but the goal is to play pots with fish.

Here are three big pots from yesterday that are all against fish:

Are you concentrating and realising the implied odds you have here against two fish preflop, or are you autopiloting?

Are you 3-betting hands like KJo to isolate against reasonably loose fish?

Do you get maximum value in a river spot like this?

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