Hi all,

I've been on a bit of a downswing of late, which never helps one play well.

Since increasing my BR, and relative to the $10, regardless of other tables, ive gone from a 15 buyins upswing to a 13 buyins downswing. The drop of 28 buyins was contributed to by the obvious, namely running bad, playing bad and added money tilt.

It's tended to make me more timid and defensive, which eventually led me to trying 2X bet on every hand.

So ive been digging into my near 200 K database.

Some of you are aware of the Adamwill/Verneer connection.

As it so happens i had about 25K hands of his from a bunch i purchased on PTR.

So l took a good look at his style and revisited my endless rewriting of ranges i elect to play.

I also went back and started listening to vitalmyth again, who always motivates me.

Another endless hobby seems to be ever changing my hud.

Hopefully ive found a better balance now with both hud and ranges.

Instead of being so defensive, i've decided to adopt a pot open betting and raising style, and be more aggressive with cbets, also looking to take the blinds with any hand if the players are tight there.

Something regarding the braodway set of ranged hands, namely ATs+, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, caught my attention recently, so ive put then into my range on all positions to see how they work out.

Although i'm well rolled by most people's standards to play $25, i still haven't got it together enough, so ive gone back to $4 to work the kinds out.

I've tried 4 tabling, but i still remain a multitable geek, so i need to work on my efficiency doing that.

Yesterday, when i adoped a more aggresive style things went better, and i picked up about 3 buyins playing 1.8 K of hands in 4 hours.

I'd started off playing 4 tables, then taking a break rewatched the vitalmyth "The Big Difference" first vid where he discusses volume, and off i went back up to 12-17 tables.

The problem in part was setting up a hud i could get something from in seconds, and remember what the stats stood for.

Somewhere along the way i came across a comment about W$aSD %, and decided to add that to the list. Also in the second Adamwill/Vernerr vid he talks about donk bets and taking advantage of those, so i also added those stats.

I have the hud printed out in paint, on the side of my desktop so i can always look to get a reminder.

Yesterdays first session found JJ v QQ so that was a loser.

It also saw AA getting cracked twice, and by 43 off too when some fish went fishing.

The second set wasn't as bad but KK got sidetracked, and QQ found AA.

Finally in the last two set things came together, I lost one buyin to two suckouts, and KK found AA.

Then somewhere in there the big hands came into there own, and KQ, AJ, QQ, KK, 55 bought in about 3.5 buyins.

And the last short set found a mulit was with my 22 getting a set 6 way. Some fish shoved his JJ stack on the flop, 4 2 T, and some idiot with T5 suited and no flush draws put his stack in there. My set held and i pocketed nearly two buyins and immediately quit fior the night.

The CO and button were the big winners, wiith modest W$woSD, and a total of 6 buyins together.

I also picked up half a buyin from the rake. And beleive me its very nice to get rakeback added daily at Carbon Poker, which you will find across all merge.net sites plus 35% rakeback, the best in the industry.

Flop cbets were 77% and 57% successful, W$aSD eventually recovered to 52.9 %,

The most spectacular improvement to my game is the difference at SD between => 50bbs lost versus =>50bbs won.

On a % basis, over the last 163 K of hands the total % average difference has gone from ZERO to plus 1.57%, and although ive lost my fare share i picked up $1200 plus.

The showdown graph for all 200 K of hands shows the recent dramatic improvements, which currently average at 51.4 %.









358 hands saw the flop yesterday for a win of $21 of which cbets at 77% bought in $12.


So i'm hoping that things go well today too.


tony