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Okay, another bad day at the tables, really.
It started well when I got that guy who took me for two buy-ins yesterday and got a stack back.
I got rr as I held AKs and although I know it's debatable I beleive in pushing AK, it's only minorly behind PPs up to QQ and to get best value out of it I think you're better off seeing all five cards.
Technically I didn't win the hand; that was won by a shortie who tripped his 77 and won $5. The other forty came back to me when an ace hit.
I played a looooooooot of poker today, by my standards: 1110 hands. Up about $50 on Prima, but lost $72 on Empire... shocking.
Still, picked up the $100 bonus on Empire (completed that bonus in one day, which was nice as it took some of the sting out of some sucky variance, lots of stacks going when AA busted by rags that hit).
The big problem I've been going over today is how to play a hand where I either have AK, AQ or something and hit the flop or even AA, KK, QQ on a uncordinated flop and have a villain who calls down my pot-sized bet (assuming a nice large pot on the flop).
To begin with I was just value-betting the turn too, sometimes picking up the pot and sometimes getting stacked by someone who had hit trips or two pair on the flop.
So I started checking the turn but I lost a couple of hands where I basically gave a guy who had unwisely called with a drawing hand on the flop a free hand: and paid the price.
So I'm sort of going back to the idea that I'm going to value-bet both turn and river providing no obvious scare cards come up (i.e. a flush hits and villain wakes up, or I'm KK and the river comes up an ace and villain wakes up- in those cases I'm probably folding without a read).
I think I'm going to be paying off PPs that hit, but it's better than chickening out and letting fish hit because I'm giving them better pot-odds.
Target 10K hands in July.
Days remaining 11
Hands completed 4765
BR: -$39.60 (- 1.77 ptbb/100)
Bonuses: $245
Thank goodness for bonuses, otherwise my BR would looking much shabbier this month.
Thanks for the tip flomo. Prima's still not too bad, I'm ahead overall even without the bonuses, just not by as much as I was at Dise...
The biggest problem is adapting to the table, they seem varied and they can change quite quickly. Half the time a really tight game seems to work well and then suddenly it tightens up and you have to quickly loosen up and get more aggro, but watching out in case it loosens up arougn you again!
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