Folding Pocket Aces

This month has certainly been quite exciting. First I decided to switch to 6max from FR. I actually had a great run at first and in about 6000 hands I had a 14 BI upswing putting me within 1BI of making it up to 10NL. That’s when things started to get ugly.

I think at this point I was starting to focus more no winning that last BI then playing poker properly. My W$woSD went straight down and my showdown winnings were pretty flat, winning as much as I was loosing. But I think I came out on the wrong side of variance most of the time. What really killed me was the W$soSD, over the last 1600 hands or so, it went down on a steady decline to the final mark of …. drum roll -7BI! So basically I’ve cut my months winnings in half because of bad play.

I’ve decided to accept that for what it is, a lesson learned. Don’t start playing marginal hands to try and hit miracle flops. Keep to your A-Game and everything will happen as it should. Don’t force it.

So this week is going to be “Back to Basics Week!”. My plan is to rewatch the “From the Ground Up” series by TubaSteve and n0whereman. It’s the first series I watched when I had first joined a year ago and I think it wouldn’t hurt to rewatch the series to make sure my basics are in check.

Goals for the remainder of the month:
- Keep opening range tight.
- Keep calling range tighter.
- CBet good flops.
- Stop forcing hand with loose passive players, they’ll happen on their own.