Had a good day online, played 1200 hands and won 430, enjoyed the sessions and ran well overall. Did lose a 350bb pot with AA allin pre vs QQ and ran KK into AA but other than that had a few favourable coolers and ran well in flips and allin situations. Only managed to get in 3 hours depsite having no plans for the entire day, which was pretty lazy but instead of playing for 2 hours tonight I had a 2hour skype coaching session with my mate Tim Chung who is a really really good online player. I sent him the last 200hands I'd played and we went through them. It was really good, got tons of interesting stuff and he seemed to pick up on a couple of leaks but basically most hands I seemed to be playing pretty well, good bet sizings as well as just generally taking profitable lines.
The main leak was not donk betting enough - I used to never ever donk bet. I still almost never do live. I can now see the massive importance of doing it heads up as it is so helpful in having a balanced range when bluffing/value betting. So much easier to get max value from flopping monsters oop if we have a balanced donk betting range. Donking paired boards, with gutshot and overs, bottom pairs with BD draws, Ace high hands, Gutshots and BD draws etc etc as well as all flopped monsters. Donk betting these a decent % of the time is something I need to do more. We can of course play all those hands profitably as well, double barrelling certain turn cards and it's also really disguised if we make our gutshot/bd flush/2pair/trips and easy to barrel and get value because we have initiative.
Also I tend to value bet the turn when oop when the flops gone check check in spots where it's better to check/call. In spots such as
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I was checking the flop then leading the turn if he's checked the flop behind. Leading to get value from gutshots and spade draws, whereas infact its better to check and allow him to bluff his air and semi bluff his draws so that we can have a more profitable check/call on brick rivers. By leading the turn he folds out all his air and will call or fold all his gutshots/FDs. Having lead the turn, on a brick river, he's far less likely to bluff if we check river as he can't rep much and we look like we're check/calling. However if we check/call turn, he's more likely to double barrel if he has the initiative.
A lot of this stuff is simple game theory, but just sounds quite complicated, but once I got my head around it, it was pretty satisfying. If anyone wants to do a similar sort of thing, a HH review session then I'd be really up for that. Both as a twoway discussion of hands or me going through your hands/you going through mine. Found it really useful and want to do it more often. It's got to be a brilliant way of improving.
A good start to the online career but not getting at all carried away by my 13BB/100 winrate, very early days...
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