(Continue from $200 Experiment = Busto (The Beginning)
Here is what I did…
I played a tight range of AQ+ and Pocket Pairs. That’s it. I would only raise with these hands. Never open-limp or over-limp. I would call a raise with low Pocket Pairs 22-88 with the 5/10 rule, which is you can call if it’s only 5%-10% of your stack and you can get all villain’s chips. I was playing very aggressive pre-flop. I was c-betting flop 85% of the time. Half c-bets on my bluffs and 3/4 on my strong hands. (Its exploitative but I am not worried about this at these stakes). I was making a killing with c-betting a lot. I was never slow-playing and always betting if I hit trips on the flop or air. I was playing a very aggressive positional game here and raping these little fishes. Also 3-betting AA-KK-QQ-AK 100% of the time. A lot of peeps would shove on me with AJ-AQ-low PP which is +EV to me. I took this to .5-.10NL and it worked just the same I was up 8 buy-ins in the first 3 hours of playing. Eventually it evened out here after 16k hands and was up 13 buy-ins.
Then I busted.
I busted because me and my friend played a .25c-.50c NL HU session. I lost about 3 stacks here to coolers and bad-beats and ill-timed bluffs. I can beat him pretty easily so that’s why I played these stakes and plus he loves to gamble muahahaah. But just wasn’t my day. So that’s how I busted. Kind of lame I know. I took a couple shots here and there at higher limits and lost and won some. Anyways it’s not a real way to bust my roll, so I am depositing again tomorrow to continue some more experimentation. Prob be a amount of $300-$500.
Anyways here is some +EV things I found out at micros:
- C-betting a high % of the time is really +EV.
- Betting is +EV.
- Folding when your not sure is +EV.
Some common tells I found were:
- Villain’s donk betting min to half pot was always weak.
- Villain’s donk betting POT was Top Pair.
- Villains love to slow-play so if you find yourself re-raised on the flop and you don’t have a monster fold.
- Check-raises on the turn are always monsters from villain.
- 4-bets pre-flop is always AA. I actually folded QQ and AK a couple of times because I was so sure.
Anyways that’s my little story. I’ll be going for robust again,with a different attitude and style this time so I should be able to reach my goals pretty easily. Kind of like the $200 was an experiment and this new deposit is the real thing!
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Wow… Jeremy.. That’s sick!
I mean.. You have made so much work to study your opponents and focus more on your game and then boom!
Heads up is a sick game.
Are you gonna start again with the same approach to the game? Same stakes?
Buy the way… We can play some time with other two poker-scholarship.com guys on Ultimate Bet
Of course in private table NL2 or a SNG for cents (I don’t want us to play for money).
Good luck Jeremy!
Good write up Jeremy. It is too bad that you ended up busting especially because the reasons you busted really were not really in the spirit of what you were trying to do.
I actually think that the reason you busted is fairly common among poker players. I think it is fair to say you were not disciplined enough in your bankroll management. Jumping to play heads up at a level that was far beyond what your bankroll dictated was not a very good idea (I have done it myself as well so don’t feel bad!). The way you responded to your poor heads up session also is another fairly common mistake. You were chasing your losses by playing higher stakes. Again, playing outside your bankroll.
I really do not know much about your skill level (and mine certainly has a long way to go) but I know the biggest leak that I used to have in my game was playing outside of my bankroll. This is clearly what occurred for you and it illustrates exactly WHY we need to set good bankroll limits (to protect ourselves against coolers and bad beats aka the variance).
When you do end up reloading and trying the experiment again I hope you stay within your bankroll. It will be interesting to see how the experiment works out with strict bankroll management. Good luck!
Lol, ya HU is crazy.I lost my stack to boat vs. boat.He flopped it and I turned it lol.Then other one was I flopped a straight and he flopped Top Two and he rivered a boat after we got it all in on the flop.Then I kind of tilted and left lol.Hes a best friend so its all good,he is a gambler and kind of paid me back afterwards by buying into 1/2nl and said here you go whatever you make off this buy in you can have,so I made about 150bb in a hour there,so all is good.He knows how much I play poker so now hes got the bragging rights of telling me he beat me anyways lol.
Well mario we should make a time to play considering were pretty much 12hours time difference lol.And Ill log into my old school UB acct. and we coud play.
It’s OK.
Time is not a problem so far.
I will have more free time (I think) from the upcoming week.