Lesson 1 finished

Goals:
1. Pay much closer attention to stats before playing a hand and try to work out whether that hand works well against ranges, and likeliness for people to call/fold up to turn
2. watch other hands, tendancies
3. think about post flop betting chances when boards come down

How do I feel?
Very good, looking forward to paying more attention, will two table and table select (datamining)

Results:
1. Tick. I datamined a lot of tables before playing, and when I sat down had two aggro monkeys on my direct right, so life was good. But I labelled each player on my table looking at how much they might 3 bet or call if they had position on me, and how much they would fold to cbets or turn cbets, trying to profile how profitable they would be for easy bet/cbet poker. Looking at players on my right, I looked at how profitable they would be to set mine or how dominated my AJ type hands would be from their EP raises. I felt very comfortable with my play after doing a bit of this, and kept it up pretty well for the whole session.
2. Did this pretty well. I don't miss too much on the tables now while 2 tabling. If I miss a big pot I go the HH to find out more. Whether they were betting for value, thin betting or bluffing a lot is still a big focus. Looking to focus more on floating and how they handle 3 bet pots too.
3. What I mean by this is try to think more before betting. How does this board interact with villains range? How much value would this villain give me with my hand? So am I betting for value here or betting to bluff/semi bluff. And if it's a bluff/semi-bluff how likely am I to get it to work. If it's for value, how much value would I expect from this hand?

Overall, felt like I played well, probably the best I have before given new levels of attention. I also tightened up a lot in marginal spots like holding A3s from CO with a looser button, or betting the SB when checked to. And definitely if you find fishy tables, there is absolutely no need to try to force people off pots or play too much OOP, as you get paid a lot more often with big hands, which is what happened.

I also finished off the video coaching, which went make a video, get feedback notes then have a live Q+A session. While I wouldn't say my idea of poker was turned upside down, I definitely found out a lot about my game from doing this session, and confirmed things I don't understand so well. It really comes down to doing ALL the little things, and never leaving anything for chance. If a spot comes up where you think, "I'll just try to cbet here" without having valid reasons to do so, then you are allowing yourself to burn money and this lead to tilt. Assessing a situation and being wrong is a good thing, as it shows you can improve your game and winrate still. So I'm going to tilt a lot more if I bet without a reason than if I had the wrong read or reason.

Understand simple poker concepts, get reads on players, play accordingly, it's that easy.

OK, so where to from here? I will be focusing on mainly the stats and reads for the next little while. I need to start gettting this in my head, but when the opportunities come up I'll be adding a 3rd table to the mix. This will be when I'm comfortable at two tables, and I'm feeling switched on, not when I'm tired or tilted. My short term goal is to get to a point where I'm back up to 4 tables, but not losing much of my reads. I think this is very achievable, and like anything will take some work, which I'm prepared to do. Once I'm comfortable 4 tabling again, I will work at improving my game again, and start grinding towards NL50. The beauty of 4 tabling is I can get a winrate together that coupled with 350 hands an hour will mean I can start making some plans to move up to the next level, as long as I'm winning and not losing. My aim is to not give up any edge playing these tables, and still be table selecting, hand reading and player reading well with all 4 tables I'm playing on.