Another 600 hands

What a weird night of NL10. It was actually heaps of fun, even though not at every point. I played over 600 hands and lost $2.75 :) Probably made more than than in rakeback, so a winning night, yay :) I was probably down about $35 at one point, just getting beaten to the line every time. Then I finally made a decent run at it, and finished up very close to even.

I lost my stack plenty of times, but not as much as it felt like. I felt like I got it in a lot, but I guess I made a few more big folds than I thought, potentially saving some money, who knows. More often than not I'm still making a few too many hero calls, but realistically it's close, as some of those turn out for the best.

Since it was quite an action packed night, I've had a look at a lot of the big pots. Basically all big pots where I was behind when the money went in saw me getting coolered (in my opinion). KK vs AA all in pre flop, standard. AJ vs TT on AJT, fairly standard, although the action might suggest that AJ was not going to be good often. KQ vs AQ on Q96dd drawy board, so could be draws, but I guess this spot is very marginal. AQ vs AK on dry ace high 3 bet pot after he called in position and AJ vs T8o on J82T board, after he overshoved the turn after hitting his 2 pair. Now I'm not saying they all deserved to win a big pot, more that I got it in (althought managed to not go all the way with this one) with a decent hand, and lost. On the winning side, flopped straight vs 2 pair was a standard pot. AT vs J9dd on AA7dd I think really was spew by him. He's ahead of nothing, but still 5 bet shoved the flop after calling PF. 22 vs AQ on T92 board. It was a fairly tough spot for me because he was repping one of the few hands that beats me, but in the end 4 bet shoved the flop with AQ, no draws or pairs, wow?

So I got it in pretty good all night, and wasn't always against very strong hands myself. There were no hands I really feel bad about now, but it's obvious I'm overplaying my top pair hands quite a bit. KQ vs AQ and AQ vs AK are prime examples of when I could be ahead of very little other than draws, and shouldn't think people often go mad with draws or semi bluffs like that. I'm not sure exactly when to let go, maybe when to call, it's hard to say, but certainly 3 betting flops where I only have the top pair is proving to be marginal at best, so I may look at slowing down these hands a bit, if not folding against certain opponents.