Okay, well, not really beating a homeless guy to death with my bare fists but only because I didn't have any homeless guys around. That, and I'm a wuss.
I was having a great day. I was playing pretty well, catching the occasional card, up almost three buy ins.
Then I had lunch.
And I started to get a little ragged. I ended up calling a three bet with 55 and bluffing in a situation where I was pretty much representing one hand. It was just a friggin' horrible bluff. I think it might have been the second worst bluff of my life next to the time where I said to myself "Hmm, that must give him a straight. Think I can push him off it? Fuck no. Lets try anyway!*"
And there was another hand that I just played like crap and I don't even remember what the hell it was.
Then I had to record a video for a session with jk3a tonight. I have done this several times and somehow today I just forgot what the fuck I was doing so the first two attempts resulted in unplayable files because I didn't have the right codec to play the thing. Whatever, third attempt I remember to change the little drop down thing and just as I'm about to end the thing I run out of disk space and the thing blows up on me. Here's where I wanted to kill the homeless guy because that session didn't go well and then to lose the video just sent me over the top.
So there I was, about an hour and a half before my scheduled session. I think that's a little late to cancel so I pretty much have to get something to talk about or waste the session fee. I have to play. I move camstudio over to my extra drive do a ten second test to make sure all is fine and I have at 'em. I was tired, frustrated, angry as all hell and I managed to put it all aside and play pretty well. At one point I seem to have forgotten c-betting 101 and Jared gave me a little bitchslap for that but in general I was making good folds, making good bets, making good raises in spite of the fact that I wanted to tell every single child in that Santa isn't real just so I could see them cry.
Then I get kings, it goes raise, call before it gets to me, I raise it up (raise was too small per Jared) and the guy to my left raises it again so I shove of course. Flop AJ9 blah blah blah I see him turn over a hand that isn't aces or AK and I do a little cheer until I see it's JJ at which point I really wanted to stab myself in the eyeball with a spork. Session ender imo.
And no it doesn't make me feel better to point out that I ran three buy ins below expectation.
Anyway, session notes.
Pay attention to c-bets 101. Board texture and number of opponents. LDO
Out of position iso range should be something between mid position and CO opening ranges.
Squeezing is highly dependent on players and history. We just don't have sample sizes big enough for the math to be accurate enough.
Don't play back at squeezers unless they have full or almost full stacks. The dollars just don't work.
With higher squeeze percentages (9-10) be willing to push any pair. Against their calling range 22 and 88 have about the same equity and there's a ton of fold equity. Non pairs down to about AJ.
Lower percentages restrict the value range to higher pairs and call more with the medium pairs on a continuum.
Also, don't be retarded.
That wasn't in the session but is generally good advice.
*Better, that was when I was playing 200NL without the roll for it and I caught a flush on the river to win what was then the biggest pot of my life. Villain's head asploded and he got brains all over his screen.
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