Nearly There

Another good day. Only played for about 5 hours but made some more $$$. Nearly at my $1000 goal where I plan to move up. Ive been trying some new "moves" in an effort to improve my redline. My sample size is only 5k but it seems to be working. Ive gone from a steady negative gradient to break even. I think a positive redline is a little ambitious at these stakes, where there is a lot of calling stations.

Anyway ive been looking for spots to:

-Squeeze; this is nearly always out of the blinds and requires a few things. The initial raser is opening wide from cutoff/button. I have the 'steal' stat on my HUD for this. Then the caller has to be a semi descent player, ie not a fish who will call my 3bet. This play nearly works 100% and i pick up 8-10 blinds with any two cards. I think it must look very powerful to raise over two ppl. If i get a caller, ill c-bet most boards.

-Punish the sb 'completer'; i raise it up to 5bb whenever the sb completes to me and i have a top 40%ish or so hand, then c-bet any flop. Anything else and ill fire the flop if checked to. Two barreling when appropriate. People that complete the sb are VERY weak nearly always.

-CheckRaise bluff; I only do this to regs (VIP:~15-25) and its usually from the blinds if the flop looks like it doesnt hit their range. If called ill generally give up unless i have a read. This is good for image anyway. If i call on the button id rather float than c-raise, then take it if checked too. When floating i make sure to at least have overcards or a gutter.

-Raise donk bets; this is probably pretty standard but if anyone donk bets ~1/3rd pot or less i raise really big. makes it look like im "serious" i guess. I used to just call and re-evaluate turn but then they just weak donked again and id give up. Im pretty sure most people do this type of bet to "bet for information". Fire second barrel if called unless the board is very drawy in which case they r probly calling so ill evaluate on river.

-Limp pot; whenever i hit a draw or something in a limped pot i just lead straight out into people with a pot bet. fire any turn aswell if there is only one caller. they nearly always give up or i hit my draw. i used to go for c-raise or check call here and i didnt seem to work well.

aaaaaaaaaaaanyway ill keep working on these and see how it goes. my biggest leak imo is getting in a robotic state of mind and not looking for good oportunities to squeeze etc. Heres my redline atm:












Heres my setup, hopefully i look back on this oneday and laugh at my mere 4 tabling noobness:
















Hands of the day...



I think this was a good fold. At the time i was thinking of the 'tagfish' article i read. Have to think about what they think I have. And my line here looked very strong. Would put me on a big Ace for sure. He still shoves river so I can only assume he hit the flush, which was disapointing after i forced him to pay so much to get to the river. I very much doubt he was playing a weaker ace like this.



This guy was fishy, and I had a note "overbet all in bluffs river". Was still a tough call but it payed off. Without the note I would of layed it down for sure.



This hand was just brutal. I missclicked the button raise to begin with, but that meant i could call his 3bet as it was so cheap. Would normally fold KQ to 3bet. He leads flop and i put him on a big pair, his 3bet% was low. Dont want to reraise my draw as he is unlikely to fold it. hit my flush, he bets kinda small. If i raise here he could find a fold with the obvious flush...I call, it looks weak, im repping a low pair here like 66 which doesnt believe he has it. i want him to value bet river, this sets up a perfect shove for me and will look bluffy. it would have worked well but he miracles river :(

Off to another Cod LAN... new CoD game comes out tonight and there is a midnight launch *nerdgasm*. The only one ive been to b4 was a world of warcraft one and it was hillarious. i shouldnt hassle nerds, cause i am totally one of them! Got another job interview tomorow too. Real sweet company so i hope it goes well. Casino wed night too. Im praying for some run good. Have to get rid of that gross negative bankroll sign.

Tilt: $950
Stars: $220
Casino: -$200