I haven't blogged here for a while. The last 5 months have been a process for me of 're learning' poker, if there is such a thing. Initial tweaks to my game resulted in me lurching from oct-barreling every board, to playing like Leatherass and 'using my image'. So eventually, I decided to take a fresh broom, sweep out everything I though I knew about poker and start again from absolute scratch. With input from half a dozen or so really good players/ coaches, I'm getting somewhere......



Well, I finally made 5 figures in a month. Success is all relative, and relative to this year so far, this month makes me a world champion. Although I played a ton of hands (translating into ~$4k rakeback and bonuses), and can only hope that my belief that I've 'cracked it' in the second half of the month now translates into super success in June. The above is ~ 70% 200nl, 30% 400nl. The plan now is stop opening shops and buying cars and designer dogs and paying a year's upfront rent and blowing $20k in Vegas (read, all of last year) so I can actually keep my BR at the level needed to play 1000nl full time..........



http://weaktight.com/2361063 - I CR the turn as I think it looks super strong, and rarely expect to be shoved on when he flats the flop this deep 3 way. He doesn't shove over the CR... so hero call? On the downside, he is at least capable of value betting fairly thin (I think this is a snap VS Mr-6Max-Cant-Value-bet or whoever for example).

http://weaktight.com/2361067 - We're HU at this point, this hand comes a day after the above (ok the hand was shown down). You see, when someone takes the exact same line fairly soon after a big hand then I get suspicious and think they're on the opposite of the previous hand, though I'm not sure if he's on that level, or even if it is a level. Whatever I'm sure the balancing posse will be proud.

http://weaktight.com/2361073 - yes PF is iffy, yes I should 4bet bigger and avoid being 'forced' to flat. When I'm playing well, I put a ton of stock in 'what does he expect me to do'. Here, does he expect me to fold PPs 4-J? Does he expect me to have some Qs in my 4bet call range, I think so. So, does he expect me to fold them? Hmmmmmm

http://weaktight.com/2361081 Lastly just a hand to get out of my system. He raged at me for this, but paying close attention to his betsizing on this wet of a board coupled with his PF stats meant I put him on exactly AK with like 90% certainty. So, he was going to lose this hand anyway had the river blanked off, I couldn't bluff before hand though as I wasn't sure he'd bet call at any point.

Hope everyone is well. Vegas 20th June - 20th July hopefully see some of you there.

ps: I want to make videos, but more creative ones than the standard 6max 4 tabling session. So...... I want to do a leakfinder of a 100nl looking to move up to 200nl and is maybe struggling with the aggression. I also want to do a HH review, but with member's HHs. So, if you have any interesting HHs then PM me them with relative information/ reads and hopefully I'll have enough to make a 45 minute video.

dan