What's that coming over the hill?

Morning blogosphere. The big bad world of Ipoker is back up and running and not before time. As at Monday I had played the grand total of 4000 hands for the month. I won’t be making my first mirrion (sorry, difficult first mirrion) with that kind of volume. So getting on the grind, I put in a decent session on Monday night dropping like $590ish and playing pretty bad. Apparently I run below EV for the session. At first I thought this was a mistake. I mean, I NEVER run below EV. In fact I’m the only poker player on the planet that runs above EV. How? I summon up my pal “The Above EV monster”. So I gave him a call and he popped round for my Tuesday session to restore the equilibrium:



Yeah so I played pretty bad Tuesday too. Luckily one read at 400nl (yeah I know, but there was a buddied drooler sitting) won me a half stack early doors (against the buddied drooler btw - vindication!). The odd pot here and there kept me going until I found myself sat in position with an aggro monkey @ 200nl. He flats a 3bet out of position and insta (over)jams a Ten high flop. He’d just pulled this same stunt on someone else, so I’m like meh I call with the absolute nuts (well AK, but it looks pretty). Needless to say he had toppest of top pairs and I backdoor a flush instead of hitting my regulation 6 outs. Same villain kindly donates a stack soon after when he foolishly gets all-in with a set against my bullet-proof TPTK. How very silly of him – discounting my propensity to backdoor another flush. Cheers Monster.

So the volume problem has been partially banished and I’m hoping to get a lot of hands in this week. I’ve got my hand history review routine nailed down now. With the wife at work until 7.30, I get in from work just after 5.15 and sort dinner. Washing up and other housework follow generally leaving me at least 45 mins to settle down and go through the previous days hands. Firstly I take a look at the big winning and losing hands. Next up I filter for all decent sized pots that get to showdown (this can take a while if you’ve been sat with calling stations). Periodically I filter for specific scenarios: Missed double-barrel opportunities, spots where I’ve peeled flop and folded turn etc. What I really need to do is work on profiling some regulars. I was playing the other week and being sweated by Steve (blog link added to left) and a reg sat down to my right. Before his stats popped up I remember saying something like “He’s good. I think he’s quite aggro”. Then the stats appeared and he was 18/14 with a 1.0 aggression factor. But I have endless troubles against him. So that’s my task for the week – HEM review of troublesome regs.

I’ll leave you with the PTR profile of one of the less troublesome regs I keep sitting with. He has a pretty strange style (something like 32/20) and is rumoured to be a pretty famous snooker player. Interesting.
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