At the beginning of this session I took a few coolers (overpair vs. set; 2 pair vs. straight etc. etc.) and then had a whole bunch of beats put on me as you can see from the EV line, so I was 3 buy-ins down within 700 hands - this could have been a very quick challenge!

It got a bit more sensible towards the end but I still ended up over a buyin below expectation. Still, a 10bb/100 win is a win so I'm quite happy with that:



Shouldn't be too results oriented though, as the whole point of this was to improve my play, so lets look at the 5 things I said I'd concentrate on.

1) 3-bet almost exclusively for value

My 3-bet % was down to 4.9%, and whilst you can argue that 3-betting JTs in the blinds isn't strictly for value (!) it was player dependent. I'll give myself 4/5 for sticking to this one.

2) Show more aggression post-flop

Agg% up from 28% to 32% so halfway there towards Verneer's figure of 36%. That's a 2.5/5 then I guess.

3) Be more disciplined in raised pots where I don't have the initiative - hit it hard or leave it alone!



Well, if anything my performance vs. a raiser or raiser + caller is even worse than before! However, there were plenty of situations where I let go hands much earlier than I would have before, so I'm hoping this is just down to sample size! Still, one to keep an eye on, and 2/5 for now if only for effort.

4) Be more positionally discerning pre-flop



A lot better apart from UTG! Looking at the hands in more detail I'm still opening things like QJs, ATo, J9o which I should look to cut out since UTG is my least profitable position in terms of bb/100.

Still overall an improvement so 4/5.

5) Open the button a lot more when it's folded round to me

Up from 40.9% to 61.7% so that's 5/5.


Next update at 5k hands, otherwise this'll get tedious!