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nrhs05

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Hey Everyone,

I posted my intro the other day in the introductions, and as I have mentioned I am in the process of really learning the game and evaluating my stats and trying to plug some leaks. Currently over 60,000 hands at 5NL my winrate is 5.37BB/100 hands and I have turned my initial $20 investment (started at 2NL) to 210 or so currently. I am really pleased with this however I was looking at some graphs in terms of Money won at showdown and without showdown.

I am not loosing money on pots without showdown overall, however I am not winning any. I am under the impression that this should really be a positive line so I am trying to figure out how to sift through the data to find where that particular leak is. I am assuming it is a preflop issue as it is where i feel i make the most poor decisions.. maybe thats not where it is though!

I looked into stealing blinds, to see what % i attempted to steal but i could only get the filter to only shown attempted steals, rather than % of times i tried to steal when the option was there. When i first looked at how a good chunk of losses are actually from blinds, i figured stealing more often could quite possibly be what i need to do, and bet-sizing when stealing is another thing to consider.

Anyhow, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
 
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Copy your graph/stats to here... Some people love that stuff and will be able to give you more indepth answers.
 
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graph

Well here is my graph filtered for VPIP, the sample is only ~ 6500-7000 with that filter, its about 60k hands with everything

image is here.... doesnt seem to want me to ebmed it, i will mess with it a bit lol. says i cant use [img with BBCode

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img661/5255/JOViui.png
 
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I would suggest 2 things:
1) I would not worry about this until you have over 30K hands under your belt at this limit. I am assuming you are playing at the same site right? This leads to:
2) Have you looked hard at hands after a session? What hands were you playing from what position? What ranges did you put your opponent(s) on? When you look at their stats, does your ranging of them match what they showed, if you have that?

And how much post session work are you doing? Many of the old timers will say you need, at the beginning, more work off than on. Then as you get better, this will skew to more on than off. So go slow and learn the game. Learn the players. Tag fish and rocks. And read as much as you can from proven winners at lower stakes. Most of us read or watch videos for stakes we may never play. So strategies are not the same.

You have a great rate. I am envious :)

If you are using HM2, tag hands for review. That is the easiest way to sort through all the garbage hands. I will tag hands I am not in when I see something odd in the play going on.

Keep on winning!
 
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Thanks for the feedback, and I figured with my winrate at this limit (down to 4.79 after today ,more on that later lol) was awesome as well, and i figure that if my sample size gets larger and my winrate remains similar than i really shouldn't be changing too much.

I know at this limit from what i have read and the advanced theory and plays you need to make doesn't really matter against the majority of the players you encounter here, as you really are trying to avoid the regs anyways, seeing as how MOST players are recreational. I would say i found by playing pretty snug with suited connecters and set mining in profitable spots, pushing premiums preflop are all you really need to do. You dont really need to balance your range and keep people guessing because most people arent even thinking about you they are thinking about themselves lol.

Today i had a break even day, but i felt i played well. Got some bad beats as usual, and only one suckout on my behalf i recall. Had my aces cracked 3 times (allin for 100BB preflop each time) by KK, JJ and 88. and also flopped a set on a monotone board 3 seperate times, when the villian had a flush. I didn't get stacks in those spots I just check called but ended up losing.. probably 60-70 BB each time. It was a hard hand to get away from, on those hands i shouldn't have called the river but i figure i had good equity to hit my boat by calling the other streets so im not too upset.. So its hard to have an even day with that happening. At least i managed to keep my cool and win back my bad beats!


I know i have an issue with AK, i would say is my biggest problem. When i am 3 bet out of position i hate 4 betting it. I know i probably should as there its not good to call it OOP (which i have been), and if i make my 4bet small i can hopefully count on some folds to even out the times im shoved on, in which case i figure im almost always dominated by AA or KK. At least i got some more FPPs lol....
 
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At the lower/micro's you have learned a good lesson already: "You dont really need to balance your range and keep people guessing because most people arent even thinking about you they are thinking about themselves lol." So well done.

I flopped a nut flush, got called bottom 2 pair and he filled up. C'est la poker :)

Flopping a set on a monotone board is one of those hands you should review. And also look at his betting pattern. I got eaten with TPTK vs flopped bottom set, who check/called flop and turn. Then 2/3 pot on river when I hit second pair. If you are using a hud, make sure to mark hands for review after your session. I even mark hands that look weird that I am not in. Like one guy called an CO raise from the BB with 96s??? I put his this hand into Flopzilla. That call was way out of his calling range.

Keep on winning!
 
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Yeah playing straight forward poker has been pretty good. I've had a TON of bad beats the last few days, however in the last hour and ~ 1000 hands I went up about 6 buyins (600bb :D). I just left all my tables after this hand that I ended up (thankfully) mucking.. still don't really know what the two guys in the hand were thinking.


UTG - ~500bb
Middle position - ~ 50bb
Hero - ~ 425bb

So we are extremely deep, which makes this even more bizarre, this is what happens:

UTG raises to 3bb, middle possition makes it 9 bb, i reraise to 26bb and then the UTG player flats??????, then the middle position player goes all in. I'm kinda confused obviously, so I flat the allin from the shortstack, and the UTG flats that allin as well.

Flop comes : 10 10 J monotone, we check the turn is a Q, he bets 100bb, i fold figuring maybe he was slow playing aces due to the big stacks, or possibly even had QQ. He turns over 10dJd ..... 10J!!!!!! made no sense lol.. I suppose it was a good fold considering i was crushed :p, but i didnt want to put 425bb in preflop with KK, i could have just folded i suppose but that seems far far to nitty. the stats on the UTG i think was a VPIP of 25 over about 600 hands, with about a 50% of calling 3 bets preflop. The middle position player had 5h8h lol....... I had 3 of my zoom tables with between 350 and 450 bb so i stood up before more crazy stuff happened lol. To bad that turn Q wasnt a King, i would have doubled up to about 800bb i suspect lol

So, it leaves me at about 200bb above from where my initial post was overall, which is better than minus 700bb which is where i was at one point after some continuous bad beats. I think over that -$50.00 (5nl) my allin-adjusted value was only -$5.00 and most of my losses were allins so thats a pretty bad skid, ive never seen so many river sets hit lol.
 
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When the short stack goes all in you have to isolate and reshove. If you arent willing to stack off with kings here then you shouldn't be playing with that much in front of you!

Also a flop cant be paired and monotone! (sorry to nitpick!)

Sounds like you're crushing it overall though, so congrats and keep it up!
 
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