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August 31, 2010

Week 1: Growing Pains

Blog by : Bbrash

So what was the problem? My level of aggression, especially OOP, was a load of fail. 55% donking the flop should clue you in enough of how bad it was. Not having confidence in my hand + spewing aggression = super fail. I'm positive that I was folding off the winning hand repeatedly because I had no idea where I was after betting the flop followed by shutting down on the turn. Things were frustrating so I stopped playing for a few days and just spent my time reviewing hands. I figured out these problems, watched some more play, and made some generous adjustments. Over the last 400 hands I've turned things around and I'm winning at a fast clip, recovering 3 BI in a short period.

This next week I hope to get in at least 2k hands. I don't expect the same win rate that I've had, but I'm going for consistency and a better data set to analyze.

TLDR:

Down 6 BI.

I'm a donk.

Recovered, now down just 3 BI.

After watching several videos (Crushing the Micros, Scaling Mt. Micro) I started trying to change my game and I pretty much fell straight onto my face. After just 1k hands I was down 6 BI and my graph was continuously downward sloping. I know that 1k hands isn't squat, but it was readily apparent that everything I was trying to do was wrong. You could easily retitle this entry as "Why I'm An Even Bigger Donk Than I Thought" or "Mock The Noob".

So what was the problem? My level of aggression, especially OOP, was a load of fail. 55% donking the flop should clue you in enough of how bad it was. Not having confidence in my hand + spewing aggression = super fail. I'm positive that I was folding off the winning hand repeatedly because I had no idea where I was after betting the flop followed by shutting down on the turn. Things were frustrating so I stopped playing for a few days and just spent my time reviewing hands. I figured out these problems, watched some more play, and made some generous adjustments. Over the last 400 hands I've turned things around and I'm winning at a fast clip, recovering 3 BI in a short period.

This next week I hope to get in at least 2k hands. I don't expect the same win rate that I've had, but I'm going for consistency and a better data set to analyze.

TLDR:

Down 6 BI.
I'm a donk.
Recovered, now down just 3 BI.

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August 23, 2010

First!11!1!

Blog by : Bbrash

While bored one miserably hot Texas night I turned on an ESPN replay of the 2009 WSOP ME and remembered the entertainment I used to get from freeroll tournaments online. A vault to the computer and there was my PS account with all my lovely play chips. I was never into cash games, but I played for awhile and realized how crappy everyone was. There's not really much fun if everyone limps in or calls any raise pre-flop. Watching AA/KK fall to unsuited garbage repeatedly made me want some people that at least had a vague idea of how to play. Ultimately I put in $200 on FTP and piddled around in the micros.

It's been two weeks and I've drifted back and forth in cash games. I've noticed that a lot of the same things happen, these folks aren't that good, but the game is different then the tournament or SnG that I used to do. Usually once or twice a night I take another beat on a crazy call someone makes and all of the small pots get wiped out. What else can it be except that I'm not doing well enough 90% of the time to win out over the 10% of the time when their garbage hits that 1% chance of winning?

So here I am, let's see how these lessons are and how my game improves. I've got 6 months of membership so if you come across this check in and give me some good advice! :P

Entry Tags:new,NLHE,beginner

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