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August 11 2009

Rough times

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Ive been playing around 12k hands now at NL20/NL25 and I'm down $150 or 6 buyins. Not very much but with the players I'm playing against in mind it feels like one has to have alot of bad luck to get in the negative.

What concerns me most right now is that Im bleeding more than ever in the non-showdown hands which obviously is related to people at NL25 calling down too much preventing me from picking up small pots.
But i don't win ver much at showdown either, that is the weird part. Everytime I get to showdown, and yes I play pretty showdown dependent at NL25 for reasons mentioned above, it seems they always have the better hand. It is a ver frustrating feeling to play tight, valuebet hands and then have the worse hand. Also I always get caught bluffing even do it seems it's a very good spot to bluff.

Well, I guess I have to keep fighting harder, but it feels really weird to move down to these micros and don't be able to win.

I did some analysis in Holdem Manager to see if I could find what is going wrong. What I found out was that I am losing alot of money in multiway pots. For example I raise in the CO and both blinds calls, this is often a losing spot unless the board comes out really good. But if only one of the blinds calls then I show automatic profit by C-betting almost always.
So the problem is at NL25 there are ALOT more mutiway pots, and I need to get better at playing these, I am not sure if cbetting is very profitable as a bluff at all in these spots, especially not oop.
The simpliest solution seems to be instead of raising 3xBB preflop I should try and increase it to 5xBB for a while and see what happens, then I can analyze and tweak my preflop raise sizing.
Really it is very logic; they call too much preflop so we have to increase our raise size to make them pay more for their mistakes.

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