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<\/a><\/p>\nLike Laurent, I also track my shape (Top, OK, tired, I was at the top here) and my appreciation of my game (3 levels, A,B,C, I was A). I’ve added to those my focus, a lot could happen during a session, phone call, noise, cats f****** around, etc. so the focus let me ask my self at the end of the session if I was “into” my session or not (I have 3 levels as well: Good, Average and Bad, I was really focus here, hopefully for the first session of the challenge!).<\/p>\n
Even focused, I’ve lost my biggest pot, 65BB, just doing the easiest mistake ever, be passive, I call 4 times, pf, flop, turn and river with my 99. We were 3 at the table, I was BB and the SB raise on the BTN limp, I didn’t pay attention to this, it was the very beginning of the session, was still trying to open 6 tables. So I just call the raise of SB and then, on J high flop, I noobishly call 3 times to discover a nice J4o in its hand.<\/p>\n
First Rule of this challenge: avoid at any cost this line. Never again.<\/p>\n
Another good rule I came up during the session, is about the river. At micro limits, it’s quite obvious to understand that something went wrong and your opponent is showing a great appetite for your chips. He takes the lead, re-raise, doing a big bet, like bet pot or overbet. At first, like the first hand I describe, I didn’t pay enough attention to this. 2nd biggest post I’ve lost, 50BB, was with KK, I called a big bet river, even after taking my time to think. I need to be careful on the big bets river, obviously showing strength.<\/p>\n
Stacks<\/strong>: Preflop:<\/strong> (\u20ac0,07<\/span><\/strong>, 5 players) Hero is UTG<\/strong> with <\/span>K\u2660<\/span>K\u2663<\/span> Flop:<\/strong> 3\u2665<\/span>J\u2665<\/span>7\u2665<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac0,33<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – SB: \u20ac4,52, Hero: \u20ac4,98) Turn:<\/strong> 2\u2663<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac0,83<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – SB: \u20ac4,27, Hero: \u20ac4,73) River:<\/strong> 7\u2660<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac1,71<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – SB: \u20ac3,83, Hero: \u20ac4,29) Total Pot:<\/strong> \u20ac5,13<\/span><\/strong> SB wins \u20ac4,80\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n When I see the hand history now, the fold was really easy.<\/p>\n But let’s talk about the hands I’ve won now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I’ve got lucky (obviously!), I had one AA vs AQ allin pf 100BB, villain 4bet shove my 3bet, easy! Nothing else worth mentioning. I did generally value bet my TPTK nicely, I did select carefully the flops to c-bet with air. Oh, I do remember something worth telling: I had the chance to use a move I heard about, the raise-min flop with TPGK when I’m not leading.<\/p>\n Stacks<\/strong>: Preflop:<\/strong> (\u20ac0,07<\/span><\/strong>, 5 players) Hero is SB<\/strong> with <\/span>A\u2666<\/span>J\u2666<\/span> So, here, I really don’t like 3betting a open UTG with my “good” hand, don’t see any good reason.<\/p>\n Flop:<\/strong> <\/span>4\u2660<\/span>A\u2663<\/span>4\u2665<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac0,35<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – Hero: \u20ac6,23, UTG: \u20ac4,90) The flop arrives and here I can use the move, typically a wa\/wb situation (way behind or way ahead), doing this min raise will froze the action turn often enough (in micro-limits).<\/p>\n Turn:<\/strong> <\/span>8\u2665<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac1,27<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – Hero: \u20ac5,77, UTG: \u20ac4,44)<\/span><\/p>\n Hero checks, UTG checks<\/span><\/p>\n Good.<\/p>\n River:<\/strong> <\/span>6\u2663<\/span> (<\/span>\u20ac1,27<\/span><\/strong>, 2 players – Hero: \u20ac5,77, UTG: \u20ac4,44) I maybe miss some value here, with the move, I can bet\/fold river easily, but I was really sure he would have bet something: an easy call for me anyways and not expensive at all.<\/p>\n Total Pot:<\/strong> <\/span>\u20ac1,27<\/span><\/strong> Hero wins \u20ac1,19\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n I was ahead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Let’s end this post with this last note I made to myself, there is clearly a lot of value to make when I detect my opponent is on a draw. They won’t calculate any odds in micro-limits, so it’s where I can bet big: flop and moreover turn. They will do their biggest mistakes there and I will do the most part of my winnings \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n See you after the next session! Thanks for reading that much \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My first session of this challenge, sorry Laurent I’m late. So, we’ve decided to do this challenge and use our app great features to follow it. Self advertisement never hurts \ud83d\ude42 My goal is to be able to play at NL20 with a good bankroll management, having more than 50 buy-ins. After creating my new … <\/p>\n
\nUTG – Hero (<\/strong><\/span>\u20ac5,12<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong>
\nCO – CO (<\/span>\u20ac4,98<\/span><\/strong>)
\nBTN – BTN (<\/span>\u20ac5,17<\/span><\/strong>)
\nSB – SB (<\/span>\u20ac4,66<\/span><\/strong>)
\nBB – BB (<\/span>\u20ac4,35<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Hero raises to \u20ac0,14<\/span><\/strong>, <\/span>2 folds<\/i><\/span>, SB calls \u20ac0,12, <\/span>1 fold<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
\nSB checks, <\/span>Hero bets \u20ac0,25<\/span><\/strong>, SB calls \u20ac0,25<\/span><\/p>\n
\nSB checks, <\/span>Hero bets \u20ac0,44<\/span><\/strong>, SB calls \u20ac0,44<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>SB bets \u20ac1,71<\/span><\/strong>, Hero calls \u20ac1,71<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHero shows <\/span>K\u2660<\/span>K\u2663<\/span> (Two pairs : Kings and 7)<\/i>
\nSB shows <\/span>6\u2665<\/span>T\u2665<\/span> (Flush Jack high)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n
\nAnd I won one 50\/50 with AKs. This time, I opened UTG (we were 4 at the table), villain 3bet, I 4b and he quickly 5b with a huge bet, half of his remaining stack, 28BB, I had to decide to go 6-bet or fold after my 4bet. I rarely do that so, I ask him all the rest of his stack and he snapped call with QQ, lucky me, I hit an Ace! I don’t think there is a way to fold here.<\/p>\n
\nUTG – UTG (\u20ac5,05<\/span><\/strong>)
\nCO – CO (<\/span>\u20ac5,48<\/span><\/strong>)
\nBTN – BTN (<\/span>\u20ac5,60<\/span><\/strong>)
\nSB – Hero (<\/strong><\/span>\u20ac6,38<\/span>)<\/span><\/strong>
\nBB – BB (<\/span>\u20ac2,20<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>UTG raises to \u20ac0,15<\/span><\/strong>, <\/span>2 folds<\/i><\/span>, Hero calls \u20ac0,13, <\/span>1 fold<\/i><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHero checks, <\/span>UTG bets \u20ac0,23<\/span><\/strong>, <\/span>Hero raises to \u20ac0,46<\/span><\/strong>, UTG calls \u20ac0,23<\/span><\/p>\n
\nHero checks, UTG checks
\n<\/span><\/p>\n
\nUTG shows <\/span>A\u2665<\/span>T\u2663<\/span> (Two pairs : Aces and 4)<\/i>
\nHero shows <\/span>A\u2666<\/span>J\u2666<\/span> (Two pairs : Aces and 4)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n