August 20th - 26th
(Note I do my weeks Monday – Sunday)
Cash Games
Hours – 18
Profit - ($1527)
Tournament -
$250 buyin 7th place for
$1500 (193 runners).
Had a very rough last week to say the
least in cash games. My records are missing 1 session I believe since
I thought I lost $2500 in cash this week. Nothing seemed to go my way
and unfortunately I did not record many hands in order to review my
play. I really need to focus on this more. Every single spot that I
have any doubt about I need to be recording and reviewing both during
and after my sessions. I have taken a step by taking a orbit break
every two hours or so to both write and look over hands.
Didn’t play many cash hours (again
missing a session, prob closer to 25) as I took both Friday and
Saturday off to regain some focus and take a short break. Friday was
fun and we played 45 holes of golf. Was a super up and down day for
me and ended up playing good 2 of the 5 9s (1 was a mess around where
we played with 3 clubs. Shot a 42 on the first 9 and a 41 on the last
9 and played pretty shitty in between. I really like my swing right
now, I just need to put in more time on the range to get more
consistent with it. Seems like it is more 1 or 2 bad holes / round
and great play otherwise.
I took Saturday off as well to go to
107.7 The Ends Summer Camp at MaryMore park. This was awesome with
FUN. Headlining the concert. I found a new band, Walk The Moon, though that I had
never heard of who are amazing. Here are a few of their songs
Came back Sunday fresh off of 2 days
off and apparently it helped a lot. Tulalip had their end of the
month tournament. $250 buyin with 193 runners. With about 30 people
left I had around 350k of the 2.3 million in play which was almost 4
times the average stack. Went very card dead the final 2 tables and
came into the final table 3/10 with around 20ish big blinds.
Basically folded everything until I had a really good spot where UTG
opened for 35k at 8.16k and I re shoved 250k with Aqhh and got
snapped by Qjcc. Awesome spot for me and if I would have held I would
of loved my chances to win the tournament as the play was awful.
Unfortunately he turned a J and I was out for $1500. This did however
saved my week from being a complete disaster.
HAND OF THE WEEK
Going to have a hand of the week every
week. Just a hand I thought was interesting and made me think.
Reads – UTG1 very loose passive
player.
BB – Brand new to table
have never seen him before. Bought in $400. Assuming standard Loose
passive 3/5 standard player
Kqo
UTG 1 limps 5
Hero HJ – Raise $25
BB calls UTG1 Calls
FLOP 974ddc
both check to me. I bet $50.
BB Calls UTG1 Folds
Turn 6c
BB Checks
I check
River Jh
BB Checks
I???
Preflop – Super Standard iso vs a
loose passive opponent with a wide limping range.
Flop – This is a very close Cbet or
Check Back. Still not sure if CBET is good here or not because most
likely it will take 2 bullets to get them to fold. By cbetting i'm
preparing my self to barrel any J K Q A.
Turn – This is probably the worst
card in the deck for my to continue with a double barrel on. This
card really hits the Villains check/calling range on the flop.
98,78,t8, all improve to either and Open ender with a pair or to a
straight, 76 makes 2 pair, 86 picks of a pair. Basically now i'm
going to put the villain on a ton of Pair + Str8 draws or pair + FD
or FD + overs and he is basically never folding any of those in my
opinion.
River – I was planning to value bet
any KQ on the river or Bluff any A, although an A will improve some
of his hands (Nut Flush Draws and Aces up). The Jh is super
interesting cause it doesn’t really make any 2 pair combos besides
J9 and doesn’t complete any of the straight draws. The pot is now
$175 and unlike the turn I have the opportunity to take him off his
pair + Str8 draw hands such has T9 and 98 now. This spot always comes
up though because most people hate folding in this game. People are
always curious and suspicious. Unfortunately like I said this player
was brand new and I had no reads on him. IF I am to bet here I feel
that I would need to bet on the bigger side, probably around $125 or
so. FWIW I would value bet any J here. After talking to a couple of
people it seems it is super close but I do feel I should be betting
between $125-150 here on the river to fold out all his weak 1 pair
hands.
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