Tuesday, June 3, 2008

First session update

OK, so I had a losing session yesterday. PokerTracker has become a very important resource when looking over losing and now winning sessions. Before I just figured I'd had a couple of coolers, maybe a couple of big winners, but sometimes you look at it, and you were in fact a long way behind when the money went in and hit that lucky card. Or in fact that you had no luck when you were miles ahead in a pot, or 50/50. It is absolutely vital to be able to be really critical of your play, because a winning session playing bad, is a losing session in the long run, and likewise the other way.


So on analysis of my play last night, where I lost over 2 buy ins. It felt pretty bad to me, but over 2 BI's were lost due to 50/50's losing or coolers, so overall, it's not as bad as it felt. I see my 5 biggest losing pots were all pretty standard hands where I was roughly 50/50 for all of them, except a set over set situation, where we both flopped a set. I lost the most on that hand. The only thing I regret about last nights play, was trying to force some results in pots I had no right to be in. And almost every time it backfired. I was deliberating trying to push people around, not tilting, but it failed miserably. Not sure if I want to do that again or not now.

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