What's That? Oh, The Top of Your Range...

So, the title is pretty self explanatory. Today was pretty atrocious, I ran into the top of peoples ranges everywhere. Set over set, AQ vs AK, trips into a boat. Ugh. I even picked off a few bluffs and the villains got there. I ran some filters in HEM last night to check things out. It's not too bad, a few coolers for stacks, but when you only play 4 tables for a couple hours a day it really accentuates things. I'm going to review my month tomorrow and see where I'm going wrong and see if I can fix it, or if I really am making good decisions/ranges and just being unlucky by running into the nuts every time.

Here's the month so far:

This hand villain was playing 8/3/0 over 59 hands. Obviously his range is pretty obvious here, so I decided to set-mine since he probably wasn't folding his big pair if I hit.

I think I could have found the fold button on this hand. Villain was 26/18/12 3b. I think my 4bet is fine since he can be 3betting/squeezing light here, but I think it's a fold to his 5b shove.



There's a few more hands but I'll go through those tomorrow. Hopefully I can turn things around.

Rough Session

So I played a short session today (a bit over 1hr) and it was pretty rough. I lost 3BIs in some trivial spots. I don't think there was a way to get away from them but maybe. I had QQ vs AA AIPF. Villain was in the BB when I Raised UTG+1 to 3x. The BTN and SB called and BB squeezed to 14.5BB. He was 15/12/5 over 53 hands so def seemed capable of making this play. I 4bet to 35BB and he jams. Rest is history.

Second hand I just reviewed and I think I can fold the turn. I beat like nothing he takes this line with.






The only 2 significant hands I won were when my QQ held vs AK and when I had AJ vs K9 when he spazzed out with a pair and FD.

Anyways that's enough bitching for now. Hopefully the next few days go well. Here's the graph so far of my paltry hands I've put in:

May Review

So after my SCOOP cash I withdrew the $50 that i put in to play and left myself with $55. I'm going to try to build up from that. I played 2NL and worked my way up to about $70. I made a good run in the Big $4.40 and boosted that up to $90, all in the last week of May. So my plan is to keep grinding 2NL for a while longer and move up the stakes. I'm only playing a few small buy-in tournies here and there. I cashed in the Big $4.40 again last night and was up to $95. So that's where it sits. I'm currently playing the Bigger $5.50 and will be playing the Sunday Storm. So we'll see how things go, but so far it's off to a good start.

PokerStars Tournament #806011346, No Limit Hold'em

Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40 USD

6899 players

Total Prize Pool: $27596.00 USD 

Tournament started 2013/05/25 18:30:00 AT [2013/05/25 17:30:00 ET]

Dear madman1701,

You finished the tournament in 128th place. A USD 21.80 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

PokerStars Tournament #807011346, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $4.00/$0.40 USD
7428 players
Total Prize Pool: $29712.00 USD 
Tournament started 2013/06/01 18:30:00 AT [2013/06/01 17:30:00 ET]


Dear madman1701,

You finished the tournament in 308th place. A USD 12.18 award has been credited to your Real Money account.