Degeneracy downunder

Nah nah nannanaa nananaaaaaa – Black Eyed Peas were so much better pre-Fergie.

Anyway, I’d be interested in getting a bit of feedback from anyone who’s done the micro to small-stakes run fairly recently, because last night I had another kind of weird session where villians were showing up with random two-pair/ runner runner gutterballs and owning my soul.

What’s the one thing that you did that improved your game the most during this period? Specificity is the key; feel free to PM if leaving comments is not your thing.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure that my winrate against people who don’t know what they are doing fluctuates much more than my winrate against the weak regs who I try abuse just as much. Making it worse is that I think it really affects my thought process, and the result is that I isolate with weaker hands and valuetown myself.

Because I don’t have a lot of time to play, this is really magnified because a couple of these going against me in a session is almost enough to turn a good session into a bad one, whereas if they are going for me it can turn a decent session into a really good one. There’s no middle ground really.

As a result, this months graph looks like a funky staircase – flat, followed by mini heater followed by flat, followed by mini heater etc etc.

I looked through HEM last night quickly as well and I’m significantly negative for both AKo and AQs/AQo which is kinda weird but sorta gels with my feelings that I suck at TPTK and TPGK.

I’ve been playing around with 3 betting a bit lately and because there’s not a lot of folding going on in some of the games I’m playing I feel like I’m just playing for stacks with TPTK/ overpairs when this is probably not the most mean-variance optimal way to play micros.

Also, if I complete in the SB/ check in the BB and make trips, should I be looking to get stacks in? given that i can’t put people on a range of hands and I often find myself getting outkicked.

So many questions =(