Ragnar4 OP: There's a moral in here somerwhere.

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Tonight, I played 500 hands.
Yesterday I played 500 Hands too.

I think on an accountability level I made some pretty heinous mistakes. I mis-read a hand early and basically what happened is I had AK and he had a pair of fours on a 479r board. I checked to him cuz I was OOP, and he minbet 2c into a 25 cent pot. I read this as weakness, so I re-raised over him, and he min-raised me back... and then I called and shoved the blank turn. What should have been a giant warning flag was free money for him.

I did burn him later when he had top pair and I had top two with the exact same play. I checked, he minbet, I raised the pot, he minraised me back, I shoved the turn and he snapcalled. So I got my money back.

I also made a bet into a K J 9 2 7 pot that was a huge overshove with top two.. and I realized the MOMENT I hit the bet button, that I effectively turned my hand into a bluff, he thought about it for a millisecond before calling with QTs. At least I realized it when I did it.

I've adapted a new mentality about c-betting that I'm hoping is "correct" If I'm in position, and my opponent checks to me after I've raised pre-flop. I'm willing to c-bet all but the sloppy, wettest boards. If I'm OOP I only c-bet if I've caught some piece of the board, or am ahead of the board. I honestly felt better about my play doing that tonight.

It used to be c-bet the pot everytime I was in a sitaution that I "should c-bet", getting popped back is hard in that situation because you may feel you're already pot-committed at these levels.

I did run like a kenyan and caught like 8 sets in a row on my 5 tables combined.

Oh oh oh! I ran a bluff that got a set of queens to fold from a rather solid player (well solid except for that) I had pair and thought I was good, but I raised in position with a flush draw on the flop, checked behind on the turn, and valuebet on the river and got the set to fold too.. I was pretty stoked.

Anyway, no hands tonight, mostly because my compy crashed, but I really didn't end up in a lot of tough spots to be honest, and anything that seemed odd, I ran it through Pokerstove, and was either right, or very close.

What do I need to work on? Not being such a dam calling station with mediocre hands when my opponent is solid. If he's valuebetting me, don't oblige him dammit!