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The past 2 days, I've played 1490 hands and stuck to playing a solid 20/10 TAG game. In fact, I've been even nittier (due to extremely loose opponents), and even ended up playing 16/5 today over 900 hands against a ton of fish.
Over those 1490 most recent hands, I've won $141 at PLO25 running at ~19ptbb/100 hands, which is great. I have never lost an all in confrontation (running pretty good I guess), but to be fair, the worst I've ever been in an all in situation was 45%, and that was far and few in between. I've pretty much been all in without great equity, which makes me happy. I definitely feel like the 20/10 game is optimal for this level, and sticking to 6-tables has done wonders for my medium-sized pot situations, where reads are extremely important.
For example, whether to check/call or check/fold when an obvious draw hits the river. These situations are compltely opponent dependent, and playing 8 tables, I normally have no time to think, but I feel 5-6 gives me a decent amount of time to consider the specific opponent and usually make some good calls. Conversely, it also allows me to makes good bluffs. Which is extremely important, because I want to improve my won wihtout showdown moneyz. Doesn't matter if you win a ton of showdown pots if you are weak tight or bluffing too much in non-showdown pots!
Didn't lose any interesting pots, so here are some interesting ones I won:
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Villain in this hand was one of the biggest fish I've ever seen. He was a huge calling station, and I wish river was a spade because I'm pretty sure that's what he was drawing to.
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Villain here was another fish who was raising every hand, and 3betting a ton of junk hands. Flop the nuts with a redraw, and pick up another redraw on the turn. Glad to finally hit one of these redraws!
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This was an interesting hand. Villain here was super aggro on a ton of hands, but knowing what i know after, I prob fold the turn tbh (I later saw that he would check/check when weak, and check/bet OOP with a good hand). So yah turn was marginal, but my read on him at the time was that he was capable of huge bluffs, and when I call turn, dun see how I can fold a pretty good river.
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His turn play acutally isn't half terrible, though I think he's best off check/shoving the flop to at least try and represent a massive draw or something.
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Love the way I played this hand. When he raises small on the flop, he almost always has either the nut straight or bottom straight, I figured bottom straight b/c I figured he would raise more with the nuts (seemed like a feeler raise). On the turn, check/calling is good because I'm always behind here, but I am getting 2:1 on his bet while actually being a 52% favourite. The reason I don't want to check/shove even while slightly ahead is that he'll never fold, and it will be a coin flip. However, if I check/call, I get to see the river and get my money in while ahead. Also, if a spade or diamond hits, he has to guess whether I have the flush draw (since there were 2 I could be drawing to), and he often calls the river shove like he did. Basically I can shove any spade, diamond, K or J and he has no way of guessing whether I am bluffing some random draw and will call a lot of the time while dead.
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I loved the way I played this hand. I used to bet this flop a lot, but a lot of time I win the small pot right there, or get into a crappy situation when check/raised and a 9 out draw. So I chose to check/behind. Turn is great because it gives me 5's as outs to my massive straight draw, and I bet here to take it down. If I'm check/raised not sure what I'd do, but I think he never has a set here because unlikely he checks it twice on a drawy board. Anyways, river is gin, and I decide to bet pot. The main reason for this is that my bet on the turn is usually indicative of a steal or 2-pair, and will be check/folding the river a ton without strong made hands, so I will only get paid off if my hand looks like a bluff anways.
Anyways, just suuuperrr happy with my improvement in play, going to keep sticking to this pretty TAG strategy and build a roll for PLO50. I think the games are just the same at that level, and I don't feel I will need to open my game up too much until I hit PLO100, which I feel will definitely be an interesting challenge.
GL at the tables everyone!
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