Nice rebound

Goals:
1. Look for spots to get more value out of your made hands
2. Put people on ranges and use reads when you make a hand
3. Work out what things about the fish you can exploit.
4. 450+ hands.

Results:
1. Hmmm. Not enough still. 6 max I feel too tense to really extract, as I feel like I'm always protecting against draws or putting in bigger raises so that only BIG hands could raise me. Not happy about this.
2. I feel like I did this pretty well, just didn't apply it to my bet sizing so much.
3. Well, I kind of had some reads going, and was fish hunting a bit, but ended up tangling with TAG/LAG's for most of my bigger pots, which is kind of like borrowing money from them now to give it back tomorrow.
4. 400 hands of 6 max, plus a bunch of HU, so not bad.

Well, tonight started off as bad as ever. Down a BI in no time due to flipping poorly against 2 short stacks JJ < AK and AQ < 77, plus was picking on a fish, who woke up with a miracle river card. I had to take a short break, as everything was going against me, but came back and opened 3 fresh tables. It was a lot more aggressive tonight, and I found myself getting 3 bet quite a bit, and having cbets raised more etc. I also found myself having to quit a few tables where the table had evolved into 4 TAG's against me, which is not profitable enough. The most aggressive of tables donated $60 worth my way in two small pots where I was simply value betting, before I isolated with KK. Aggro 200BB stack never believed me until I shoved the river (I had him on worse hands that might call), and he folded. But this added another BI to my stack, and saw me up around 1/2 a BI. I pretty much bounced up and down for another hour and finished up that 1/2 BI.

I moved over to Pokerstars NL50 HU. I must say, I"m starting to feel a little like a reg there. People are insta-sitting out against me, and when I match up against another TAG, they'll often quit me. I might have played 4 tables, winning on each, but only small wins, and smaller edges than I would have liked. Even though a couple of players played very straight forward and face up, it's still a small edge, as they fold a lot of small pots, and then build it up when they get something, so it's hard to profit much from just those small pots. I got onto a table against a $50 stack, and almost first hand I sense him as being weak with his small raise, and shoved an OESD and possible overcards thinking he'd insta fold. He called with underpair and held, and again I run bad at flips, this time for more than my previous 4 tables profits, DOH!!!

Eventually I got a live one. He started with the old $31.25 trick of "Oh this is my whole bankroll." I never fall for that anyway, but decided to see what he had. He started off aggro, and seemed overly so, so , with overcards and a Jack high flush draw (3 clubs on board) I happily stacked off for his $40, and he had nothing but the king high flush draw, actually making us another coin flip (I'm 50.2% equity, so favourite :)... which I finally won. Obvious comment, "Big Fish" and tilt came to town, and what do you know insta rebuy to $50 (what, it wasn't his whole bankroll?). He auto stacked off when I floppped top pair, HH didn't say what he mucked. I then 3 bet TT and flopped overpair, so was going with that against this guy when a king hit. I actually thought about this as a good card to get him to stack off light, as shoving looks more like a bluff than AK or KQ. He called, again I didn't see, but it was worse than TT. We had a bit more back and forward, him 3 betting 30% and me folding (my edge wasn't in shoving light) and this guy would 5 bet shove or call with nothing, so I waited for value hands, which never came. I eventually couldn't resist with a medium pocket pair, and shoved his big 3 bet. He called my shove with T3s and got there, but donated a lot of that back in nearly every big pot we played, while he took most of the small ones. Eventually he coolered me with AK vs AJ on an AxxxK board for about $40, but fortunately my TT held on for his stack after he 3 bet QJs and called my shove. He finally quite, so I ended up $200 for the night, and $230 of that from this guy, thanks for the bankroll boost if you are reading.

I worked out my OnGame bonus, and at NL100, it seems like bonus money is worth around 1.5ptBB/100 hands, so if you can beat the players for 3.5ptbb/100 then you'll reach a goal of 5ptbb/100 overall. This really makes it look very doable, and drives me to work out the best way to beat this site for at least a bit of consitant money.