so i just typed out some long post relating to goals and then my cat walked over the keyboard and pressed some key to take me back to blogs forum. in short, i read this: Setting a Goal :Suited Aces and so made a list of poker goals based on my leakfinder sessions with carroters and my own feelings of where i am probably skill/knowledge deficient, or just generally missing out on some EV i could be harvesting. in brief, it includes:
- sharpen intuitive sense of SPR and knowledge of how to manipulate it in my favour + plan my line/sizing around it
- improve preflop skills as regard the 3/4/5game vs regs who are so inclined (almost all of them)
- learn to form more accurate 4b/call ranges vs above regs (never really had to do much of this)
- sharpen thin value-betting skills via better understanding of the interplay between range elasticity/sizing.
- improve mental pot equity calculations (both hand vs range and range vs range)
- thin preflop value vs fish + learning to utilise thin, undersized value 3bs vs weaker players who will continue >90% of the time (aka "min-thin 3-bets", ty carroters)
- all-in semi-bluff required FE calculations. spoon taught me a formula in our coaching sessions last year to do this. i've not really used it at all since. probably useful.
- become more anticipative (is that a word?) in my play, be able to predict roughly what % of the time villain will call/fold/raise when i bet, and bet/check when i check. not just on the current street of the hand either. i want to get a feel for how villains will likely play their ranges over multiple streets on different runouts
now that i've posted them here i'm hoping there's a greater chance of me pursuing them. under each goal i made a list of potential means to help me achieve them which is too boring to post here. but helpful for me nonetheless. i now have no excuse to be "bored" or to sit around doing nothing.
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