I’ve good news and bad news. Good news is that I made a real effort to be less of a lagtard and managed to get my W$SD to where LeakBuster thinks it should be!
Bad news is that it cost my the last half of my bankroll and I had to redeposit. What’s even more stupid is that it was still my showdown hands that cost me most of the money!
It seems to me I’m minimising my wins while maximising my losses. Playing the TAG style seems to be exacerbating that too, probably because my non-showdown hands are no longer contributing to my winrate.
Back to LAG? I don’t know, and TBH right now I don’t care. I was having an extremely stable session this morning, and had carved out 2 buy-ins in small-moderate pots, and then got kicked back to square one against a set magnet.
Small wins, big losses – I’m pretty sure this is the key though, I need to flip this around somehow. 7k hands on Carbon now at -18bb/100. Still within the realms of variance though I suppose.
Update:
It was raining today, so played quite a lot of poker. It was frustrating, very swingy stuff, but after a while it seemed to look like it was forming a general upwards line. Roughly it was climbing at 10bb/100, so that’s good.
However it didn’t end well;
Villain on that last hand is a 27/12 who frequently shoves the river, although I’m not sure whether it’s a bluff or not – by the frequency alone I’m assuming it can’t be fat value very often. Somehow he’s built up this massive 500bb stack, and I wasn’t far behind with 300bb (at least 100bb of that was his). I was wondering if we’d end up in a pot where he did his shove the river trick and not realise the consequences of being so deep;
Merge
5 Players
Stacks:
UTG ($9.78)
CO ($3.98)
Meteoric (BTN) ($11.49)
SB ($3.91)
BB ($21.58)
Pre-Flop: ($0.06, 5 players) Meteoric is BTN 8
8
1 fold, CO raises to $0.14, Meteoric raises to $0.48, 1 fold, BB calls $0.44, CO folds
Flop: 4
Q
6 ($1.12, 2 players)
BB checks, Meteoric bets $0.84, BB calls $0.84
Turn: 3 ($2.80, 2 players)
BB checks, Meteoric checks
River: 8 ($2.80, 2 players)
BB checks, Meteoric bets $2.10, BB raises to $6, Meteoric goes all-in $8.07, BB calls $4.17
Final Pot: $23.14
BB shows
J Q
Meteoric shows
8 8
BB wins $21.99 (net +$10.46)
CO lost $0.14
Meteoric lost $9.39
So it was me that got stung. I’m not sure what I expected, AA,KK or AQ maybe (he never 3bets either – ever! Not preflop or postflop – got caught out by a flatted AK a little earlier before noticing that).
