Operation: 'A' game

[Alexos]

I don't get this "Run bad at showdown thing so must win non-showdown pots"? I don't even understand how you guys come up with these things lol. Just play solid every hand, and quit when you don't? Play less during downswings, play more during upswings. Less in winter more in summer.

If you do that downswings will affect you less since you play less, and they can prob always be proven by just looking at EV and feeling good for having a reason for your runbad. In the end, it's always about getting better at quitting, if we can save ourselves from losing those couple extra buyins from tilt/spew at the end of sessions, our downswings would be so much shorter.

[griffey24]

I don't get this "Run bad at showdown thing so must win non-showdown pots"? I don't even understand how you guys come up with these things lol. Just play solid every hand, and quit when you don't? Play less during downswings, play more during upswings. Less in winter more in summer.

I just mean you haev those sessions where ever hand you barrel and get called down, they barrel you call down... they shove you call... no matter what happens, you get to showdown and lose. none of your hands are ever good during these streaks.

You start realizing that you can't win with legit hands, so you feel like you need to start making plays to win hands without showdown, just to win hands. So you start bluffing more to take down pots. makes sense no?

[Alexos]

I just mean you haev those sessions where ever hand you barrel and get called down, they barrel you call down... they shove you call... no matter what happens, you get to showdown and lose. none of your hands are ever good during these streaks.

You start realizing that you can't win with legit hands, so you feel like you need to start making plays to win hands without showdown, just to win hands. So you start bluffing more to take down pots. makes sense no?

No.

You're clearly spewing, it's very rare that I barrel and my hands are just never good because I try to tighten up when I'm running bad, and because I just don't barrel air all the time in the first place!

[griffey24]

Had a crazy grind today. Played about 5k hands today, and was mostly up and down but good to get in a good grind. Ended up about $1k on the day with the last 900 or so hands having a lot of fish playing.

Was up about $1k a couple days before that too, so a slow grind back from my -$8k downswing. Hopefully make another solid recovery tomorrow.

[griffey24]

Today was pretty lame. Down like $2.6k with EV death, which runs the month to about $7k under EV.

Last couple a days I resorted back to some old trends. Namely, 3betting a more balanced range (which is bad for me), since I get tempted into 5bet jamming light a lot more. I need to go back to 3bet/4betting more polarized ranges so i'm less tempted to jam/peel/call light etc.

[griffey24]

Trying to keep the spirits up, but this month has been pretty lol-wow so far. Most of the month has been EV death, but today was some solid river death going down. Maybe some of these rivers are folds.. not sure.

Hand 1
-villain was playing mostly solid but pretty loose
-my image was somewhat aggro loose
-this river is pretty bad. c/c river may be better than shove, not sure

$3/$6 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
griffey24 (UTG) ($595)
CO ($1,043.95)
BTN ($633.60)
SB ($582)
BB ($468.15)

Pre-Flop: ($9, 5 players) griffey24 is UTG
griffey24 raises to $18, 1 fold, BTN calls $18, 2 folds

Flop: ($45, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $30, BTN calls $30

Turn: ($105, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BTN bets $70, griffey24 raises to $235, BTN calls $165

River: ($575, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $312, BTN calls $312

Final Pot: $1,199
griffey24 shows

BTN shows


BTN wins $1,196 (net +$601)

griffey24 lost $595


Hand 2
-villain in this hand is a reg but a pretty big station
-I'm pretty confident he's the type that either 3bets flop wtih QQ+ or jams turn with them, but is also the type that will call down Tx, Jx hands
-river sucks, but don't mind the shove given above

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($471)
CO ($850)
BTN ($662.80)
SB ($768.80)
griffey24 (BB) ($413.80)

Pre-Flop: ($6, 5 players) griffey24 is BB
2 folds, BTN raises to $8, 1 fold, griffey24 calls $4

Flop: ($18, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BTN bets $12, griffey24 raises to $36, BTN calls $24

Turn: ($90, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $90, BTN calls $90

River: ($270, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $279.80, BTN calls $279.80

Final Pot: $829.60
griffey24 shows

BTN shows


BTN wins $826.60 (net +$412.80)

griffey24 lost $413.80


Hand 3
-villain who cold calls my raise on turn is a mega whale fish... maybe this river is a fold? I'm not even sure

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
4 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($349)
griffey24 (BTN) ($537.50)
SB ($320.30)
BB ($482.80)

Pre-Flop: ($6, 4 players) griffey24 is BTN
1 fold, griffey24 raises to $8, SB calls $6, BB calls $4

Flop: ($24, 3 players)
SB checks, BB bets $20, griffey24 calls $20, SB calls $20

Turn: ($84, 3 players)
SB checks, BB bets $70, griffey24 raises to $175, SB calls $175, BB folds

River: ($504, 2 players)
SB bets $117.30, griffey24 calls $117.30

Final Pot: $738.60
SB shows


SB wins $736.60 (net +$416.30)

BB lost $98
griffey24 lost $320.30


Hand 4
-villain in this hand has some ridic huge 27 4bet, and pretty sure he's 4betting a ton of Ax and all sorts of other nonsense
-river may be a fold here too, given how many Acx he might have, but that also means he has lots of non club Ax hands

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($400)
CO ($248.90)
BTN ($1,070.90)
griffey24 (SB) ($572.60)
BB ($296.60)

Pre-Flop: ($6, 5 players) griffey24 is SB
2 folds, BTN raises to $8, griffey24 raises to $32, 1 fold, BTN raises to $80, griffey24 calls $48

Flop: ($164, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BTN bets $50, griffey24 calls $50

Turn: ($264, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BTN checks

River: ($264, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BTN bets $175, griffey24 calls $175

Final Pot: $614
BTN shows


BTN wins $611 (net +$306)

griffey24 lost $305