By dobieatwar on May 25th, 2009 (more posts by author)

I used to think it was fun to be the loosest most aggressive non-donk at the table. But guess what ... after nearly two years of playing that style and with the games getting somewhat tougher, I was slowly becoming that donk and my winrate was getting lower and lower. You know what is more fun than getting into marginal situations with tough decisions every minute when 24-tabling? ... making money.

I think all the marginal situations I have gotten into over the last couple of years will be a good foundation for tough decisions that most TAG-nits don't get into very often. I resolve to play better and make money. Every few minutes I will have to remind myself to play tight and solid. It can be barrels of fun raising extremely medium strength hands from any position 97s, A9o, KTo, etc. and I just have to get a tighter range especially in UTG+1 and UTG+2 where I think I have been leaking money. Not to mention having a 60+% ATS for over a million hands is another leak which players have adjusted to with their new HUDs. Maybe I will get one too.

Here are some interesting hands from today's sessions, as well as all my losing hands from NL50 and NL100 over 90BB this month. It is a somewhat pointless analysis, because big pots don't occur often, it is the leaks of bad calls of 3-bets, bad river calls, and bad play in 20BB pots that are far more critical since they occur all the time.

Today:
Really? AKv77 3 times in one session with TPTK v flopped set.
19:38 http://www.cardschat.com/hand/7692 AKv77 on Q7K...
20:15 http://www.cardschat.com/hand/7693 AKv77 on 79A. (folded)
20:51 http://www.cardschat.com/hand/7694 AKv77 on 72A...

AAvT7s AIPF for a full stack vs a regular.
http://www.cardschat.com/hand/7695

Lol I flop quads vs a guy who makes a running nut full house.
http://www.cardschat.com/hand/7696

NL50:
Cold deck QQvAA allin on J5AQ
Cold deck + mistake, nut v 2nut + flush draw (Could fold river?)
KKvAA - standard
QQvKK mistake calling turn shove
88v97 on T86 ... hmm, avoidable?
33vAA on 245 ... I never learn - no one folds

NL100:
I am too lazy to upload the 8 hand histories, but 3 of them were already posted in the blog.
AAvAA AIPF (posted), T9vAK on 98K (posted), KQvJJ on 5TJ (posted)
66v77 on 267, 22vAA on 25A
KKvAA, KKvAAvJJ, KKvAA.