my sleep schedule is absolutely horrible. i went to the gym late sunday and then slept for like 8+ hours which was amazing, then went to wild rivers/pool all day monday. i came home and took a 4-5 hour nap after that, went and got food with jess and then haven't been able to fall asleep. im starting to yawn and get a little tired, but i have work in 4 hours so i don't really want to go to sleep and then have to wake up and get all ready.
the book Professional No Limit Hold 'Em is putting me on life tilt. i've been reading it the past few days and most of what it says has been decent, nothing i don't already implement in my game though.
the beginning preaches what they like to call the 'REM' process, which stands for Range Equity Maximize. it's as basic as it sounds, i suppose if you were relatively new to the game and didn't really know how to approach NLHE cash games it would be useful, but i've pretty well got the basics down on assigning hand ranges and maximizing my equity against those ranges. here comes the part that tilted me.
the next chapter began to talk about commitment issues and making sure you have a plan in a hand as far as whether you want to get committed or not. while this is excellent advice it as also something i'm very well aware of and implement as well. in this section they give an example which i find absolutely absurd; it goes as follows:
"you have KK in mp in a 10 handed 2/5 NL game. the game is playing fairly loose, especially preflop. effective stacks are 500. it's folded to you, what should you do?"
basic, i know. first they run through an example where you make a standard 3x raise to 15, get the BTN and BB to call. flop comes down T75r and you make a pot size cbet (which i don't agree with but whatever). the BTN floats you and the BB folds. the turn peels off a Q. now they pose the question what to do? they say that if you bet and get raised you have to fold because you shouldn't be going broke with just an overpair in this spot and if you c/c you're making a mistake because then you're just setting yourself up to call off a big bet on the river which isn't a good idea for some reason. so they pretty much conclude that by opening KK for a standard amount and then making a cbet at a fairly dry flop you creating a difficult spot at 100BB. basically this whole explanation tilts me because i really don't agree with any of it, BUT IT GETS WORSE!
they run through the hand again, asking what you could do differently to make the hand play easier for us. the magical solution is to not open 3x preflop, but to 6x so that the stack sizes postflop aren't so awkward when you flop an overpair (which is obviously the most likely case with KK). they don't say raise to 6x because the game is loose or because that's a standard raise in this game, they simply advocate it because it makes it easier to play KK as an overpair OOP. WTF!? so varying your bet sizing preflop based on the type/strength of your hand is now a winning strategy?
like i said, the REM thing is a good, basic way to get people to start thinking about hands the way they should as well as the commitment issues that people should be thinking about instead of blindly throwing money into the pot because "i have TPTK, my hand is good", but the KK example has to be the worst thing i have ever seen. i'll probably end up finishing the book just out of curiosity and i guess i would still recommend it to someone new because it does a nice job of explaining the way you should look at hands, but just don't take everything you read in poker books to be good advice.
as far as how i've been running, i've cooled off a bit but i'm certainly still doing fine. if i had to guess i'd say i've been running at something like 5-6 BB/100 instead of like 10-20 so it's still very good. oh yea, i made the list on 2p2 as well. of course the datamine was missing like 2k hands and had my profits 700 lower than they really are, but whatever. being +1700 is amazing though, i'd be happy with half of that. hell, i'd be happy if that was my monthly on top of rakeback.
FT is still down for updates, hence i'm not playing. i think i'm going to run and get a bagel because the one i had yesterday was freaking amazing, and by the time i get back games should be running and i'll have a session before work.
one last little thing, looking into possibly moving my bankroll around different places. i know UB is supposed to be fairly good and they have 30% rakeback, but the VIP system at stars is also very nice. if i just played half my time at stars i would be getting platinum level, and thus supernova for the yearly thing (although i wouldn't be able to get it this year obviously, it's much too late). all the packages they offer on stars are amazing compared to the store at FT. saving up for a trip to an EPT would be well worth it imo, so i'm seriously considering splitting up my roll when i move to 200NL and playing half the time on stars. i really don't think the game is any less soft over there.
anyways, enough nonsense. bagel time, i is a hungry bear. hopefully i have another +1700 week (or more!).
-geoff
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