Diary of a (disillusioned)poker addict

Not much poker this week so far. I had a live game on Monday night where I missed the money in the tournament but made hay in the cash game afterwards which was quite enjoyable. Apart from that, the Job has been keeping me busy so only maanged another NL50 session this evening.

Disciplines:
Not great this evening. Its been a tough week and I’m pretty drained so I didn’t feel focused enough and I pprobably autopiloted the last few minutes of my session. Must just not load any tables when I feel like this!!!

Key spots:
I did circa 270 hands and ran 2 bluffs which i think for one was fine preflop – raised a small blind limper from the big blind> I then stabbed a continuation bet post-flop on a low flop and after getting called, made a mistake of stabbing again when the A turned. In retrospect I think this is a really bad doubel-barreling spot as A-rag forms a huge part of these guys’ ranges. Of course he raised and I had to muck.

The 2nd bluff was a squeeze play but I didn’t pay enough attention to the original raiser’s stats. A 70-VPIP folding?? I then made it worse by firing the continuation bet against a guy who folds 20% of the time in those spots. As I said, not a good focused session.

Got lucky in 2 spots where again my play wasn’t great. Flatted 65s MP to UTG open versus a loose player and somehow managed to pick up 4 more callers. Hit a low pair on the flop which was checked around and caught 2 pair on the turn on what was by then an uber-wet board. I then jamemd the original raier’s lead and took it down.

Similarly, I got into a min-raising sandwich holding T8s with 2 players and ended up in a vastly iinflated pot with 1 short-stack all-in. Fortunately my other opponent decied to check things down and politely handed me a runner-runner flush for the scoop.

Next I flopped a boat and did a guy’s stack when he flopped trips. This was an interesting hand in that we both slow-played to the river and then went to war. Not a great play on his part in my opinion as the river completed a straight, a flush and the possible boat was on board as well.

Worst beat was a flopped straight versus top pair and the NFD. We obviously got it in on the flop and he hit on the turn – standard stuff. Pretty much balanced by me winning KK versus AK all-in preflop.

Leak flags:
Basic
- Bluffing calling stations x 2
- Loose calling OOP x 1

On the training front, I’ve just finished Episode 2 of ‘Road to Robusto- NL’ by tubasteve. I’ve also finally gotten my “orders” in the Mount Robusto project that DC is running so I will definitely be doing much more video studywork.

Good luck at the tables.