The masochist in me.
I’m doing my own hand reviews now, after I finish each session, I try to pick up on where I screwed up, and there’s lots of spots. I just hate making the same mistakes over and over, and making big ones that cost me, like basically losing 3 buy-ins in a row because I wasn’t fast enough to make the calculations I wanted to on each of the tables.
Skelm asked me ‘Why are random parts of your blog in bold’. I explained the bold was my basic learning review, so I, or anyone else remotely interested could skim through the blog and filter out the most useful information, I’ll continue with this trend since I think it’s an alright idea.
My biggest losses I don’t think I made too much of an error, I opened with KJo on the button, villain called, flop came Q9A giving me a flush draw and a straight draw, villain insta-shoved (31/7 with an AF of 6.0) , I expected to be facing Ax, AA, AQ, or A9, since I didn’t pair up, but was put on a flush and a straight draw, I called, turns out he had KT, and was also drawing to a straight turn was 6 and river was J, completing his straight and winning him almost a BI.
Second hand was a check in the BB with 4d 4h, flop came 4s Jc 9c, stupidly, I bet 10c in a 17c pot, not scaring off a flush draw, thinking I would scare off any TP hands. Turn comes Kc, really screwing me, putting 3 to a flush on the board not making the same mistake I put in 70c into the 37c pot, where, in hindsight I probably should have shoved, was called, river comes 6c, completing any 1 card flushes making my trips redundant, I checked (could have done better maybe here? I suppose pot control goes out the window when you are sure of second best, and you know you won’t fold flushes out on the micros with any amount of shoving), he bet the pot, I called, and lost to 5c 5s.
The next hand was KK, folding to a shove on an Axx board, think it was pretty standard, though I should probably scrutinize the values I VPIP, and see what message they are sending my opponents.
Those were my biggest losses, and I don’t think I played any of those hands HORRIBLY, though I do think some of my smaller losses were played horribly, anyway, another day, another loss, gotta work on getting my thought process in order, and folding good hands preflop if I’ve already got my stack in 2 other pots and need to concentrate.
