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Hi again, back from my short vacation. I had a great time, getting wasted, swimming a bit, hanging out, etc. Nothing spectacular, but pretty sweet vacation overall. Anyway, back to poker. I'm pretty much crushed NL2 last month while grinding 24 tables, fish is just so spewtarded and most important you get paid off and called a lot. So I moved to NL5 since I built a roll for it. Well, actually I didn't, since 125$ barely covers for loading up 24 tables, it takes me at least 10-15 more buyins to feel comfortable if I get busted and gotta rebuy.
But anyway, I get there, and run into pretty much no more or less then a rockfest. Can barely extract one street of value from anyone, if someone calls two streets I am probably beat like 80% of the time. Ofc I almost never get spewed at when I have a actual hand or nuts, but if I bluff or semibluff most of the time I run into a nice fat reraise. That is not so much of a concern to me, but the fact that the fish usually tends to be uberlucky, at least against me. Although most of my profits came from fish, also some of the biggest suckouts got from those too.
Two, definitely best hands carved in my memory. I open vs a whale with AQ from CO, he calls from a BTN. Flop comes Ac6d8c, I make almost pot sized bet, fish calls, turn comes Ah, I make almost pot bet again, fish calls. River comes 2h. I still feel quite good about my hand and fire again. And fish shows 22. Didn't even ship it.
The other hand was one where I had AA, and played it kinda passive vs shortstack, thinking he will prolly hang himself with whatever he has. Flop comes something with two hearts, nothing scary. Fish bets, I call. Turn comes Ah, completing a possible flush draw and my set. Fish jams, I call, and he shows 44h. Ofc river comes a heart and fishy sucks out. Though I played hand kinda passive I still think this one would jam it pre, still with the same result.
Overall, lots of these situations, and quite a bit of a spew from me costing me bunch of buyins. Sadly, most of the time I never got paid by made hands, but with ones I sucked out on villains too. All in all, I don't like my game at this level, since I figured, unlike in NL2, most of the players like this limit to actually learn the game, so opposition is quite tough, and ofc everyone is grinding it. But to actually grind it myself, I would probably need to devise much better postflop plan, because pure valuebetting just doesn't work, and I'm losing value in lots of spots where villains might bluff/stab me. Also, my stats on most of the tables make me look like a supernit, and that is just horrible, because I'm getting very little action when raising, and even less action if 3betting. I actually suspect that flatting AA and KK has much more value (even up to 25NL), then 3betting at those limits, although you can get suckered from time to time.
To recap, I fucked up more then half of my bankroll on NL5, but am not going back to grinding NL2. 1.5$/h profit isn't really motivating, plus I will learn absolutely nothing there. Instead, I went to play 2-3 NL5 euro tables, running hot atm, and I have time to think about every street and make loads of marginal decisions.
Still gotta review that NL5 grind session to find some of my major leaks, and reevaluate potential profits based on correct decisions in spots where I messed up. It should at least give me an overall perspective would that kinda strategy be profitable/breakeven, for the session.
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