Watched a PrimordialAA vid the other day and tried to think what I’d do before he made his move. Almost everything matched, with a couple of exceptions where he shoved over a few things that I would have been nittier about (although one push was just crazy – he just took a big pot of someone and figured they’d be tilted enough to call with anything, so he shoved pre with Q7o. Fair enough having the read that they’d call with anything, but Q7o is a 50% flip against ATC, let alone a shove calling range, so didn’t quite get that one).

Anyway, that fired me up again to try regular husngs to see if I ought to be winning. My BR is pretty bad right now, so this is just $5s, and it went like this;

Game 1: First hand dealt KK – money goes in, villain has TT & my hand holds. Nice start!

Game 2: Straightforward, picked up several 200 chip pots, then on 20th hand hit trips on turn & finish him off.

Game 3: V passive opponent, hard to get value out hands. However on 106th hand get QQ and manage to get him all-in with his FD + gutshot. He hits the gutshot. First game lost.

Game 4: 38th hand my AA’s are cracked. Second game lost.

Game 5: Hand 6 my 88 go in against villain’s 99. Third game lost.

Game 6: 3rd hand, my TPTK (AJ) goes all the way against his TPWK and I’m back up to breakeven.

Game 7: AA cracked again. Another loss.

Game 8: Tried to push villain off a hand but he clings on with his 74o & hits his OSED which gets paid off since I hit my K on the river. Perhaps this was my fault.

Game 9: My 44′s go in against 88′s with expected results.

And then I run out of steam. The HEM chart has only 9 games on it, but it makes me feel that if I carry on it’ll just keep plummeting. Why is it all so different to the start of this year?

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