2013: Make or break

Played well today, up $2.1k on year. Will be posting a few hands. Have a few that I will put into my avoidable losses section.

Avoidable Losses

Total avoidable losses today are not ideal.
I'd estimate them at about $735 (even though I won two of these hands), that's unacceptably high. Need to get that down.

4)
Villain is a fish, who calls like 45% of 3bets. His timing was messed this hand, snap calling pre and flop and then min raising turn. It felt like a spot where I see bad players try to min raise for cheap showdown.
Given the remaining stacks I'd say this is a definite don't try this at home, but I had a pretty strong read/feel he was folding. Nonetheless, I think I'll include this as $400 avoidable.

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($410) 103bb
CO ($611.40) 153bb
BTN ($444.70) 111bb
SB ($413) 103bb
griffey24 (BB) ($394) 99bb

Pre-Flop: ($6, 5 players) griffey24 is BB
2 folds, BTN raises to $14, 1 fold, griffey24 raises to $50, BTN calls $36

Flop: ($102, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $35, BTN calls $35

Turn: ($172, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $70, BTN raises to $140, griffey24 goes all-in $309, BTN folds

Final Pot: $452

griffey24 wins $787 (net +$393)

BTN lost $225


5)
Villain in this hand has a low wtsd of 26% and high won at sd of 51% over a large sample. I haven't been on him much this session, so felt like he could find a fold of a pair. Another hand that I don't hate, that worked, but I think its avoidable. I think the decision here is mostly on the turn though, to give up or go with it all the way on this particular card.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
4 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
CO ($364.40) 182bb
BTN ($217.10) 109bb
SB ($236) 118bb
griffey24 (BB) ($214.30) 107bb

Pre-Flop: ($3, 4 players) griffey24 is BB
2 folds, SB raises to $6, griffey24 raises to $16, SB calls $10

Flop: ($32, 2 players)
SB checks, griffey24 bets $16, SB calls $16

Turn: ($64, 2 players)
SB checks, griffey24 bets $35, SB calls $35

River: ($134, 2 players)
SB checks, griffey24 bets $147.30, SB folds

Final Pot: $134

griffey24 wins $426.60 (net +$212.30)

SB lost $67


6)
This one was the worst. Villain was 3betting something like 35%, madness. One hand I caught him bluffing in a 3b pot and another hand I called AK oop to his 3b cause we were deep and he won on QJxxK board, but he saw that I was capable of having AK there oop (if he decided to check). If I hadn't shown AK oop in a 3b pot once already, I'd never run a bluff on this type of board. $105 avoidable this hand.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
5 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
griffey24 (UTG) ($200) 100bb
CO ($780.02) 390bb
BTN ($364.15) 182bb
SB ($483) 242bb
BB ($211.93) 106bb

Pre-Flop: ($3, 5 players) griffey24 is UTG
griffey24 raises to $6, CO raises to $14, 3 folds, griffey24 calls $8

Flop: ($31, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, CO bets $16, griffey24 raises to $45, CO calls $29

Turn: ($121, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $60, CO raises to $250, griffey24 folds

Final Pot: $241

CO wins $618 (net +$309)

griffey24 lost $119



More sizing hands

7)
Sizing to induce vs an aggro villain. This is the same villain as hand 6, and took place before hand 6.

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($377.15) 189bb
UTG+1 ($217.45) 109bb
CO ($239) 120bb
BTN ($229.63) 115bb
griffey24 (SB) ($321) 161bb
BB ($857.97) 429bb

Pre-Flop: ($3, 6 players) griffey24 is SB
4 folds, griffey24 raises to $6, BB raises to $15, griffey24 raises to $40, BB calls $25

Flop: ($80, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $25, BB raises to $50, griffey24 calls $25

Turn: ($180, 2 players)
griffey24 checks, BB bets $90, griffey24 goes all-in $231, BB folds

Final Pot: $360

griffey24 wins $639 (net +$318)

BB lost $180


8)
I like a small sizing here in a spot where villain is liable to bluff raise us, and a spot where we are strong enough to play back to a raise.

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($311.70) 78bb
UTG+1 ($718) 180bb
CO ($432) 108bb
BTN ($410.10) 103bb
SB ($869) 217bb
griffey24 (BB) ($397) 99bb

Pre-Flop: ($6, 6 players) griffey24 is BB
2 folds, CO raises to $12, 2 folds, griffey24 raises to $45, CO calls $33

Flop: ($92, 2 players)
griffey24 bets $25, CO folds

Final Pot: $92

griffey24 wins $139 (net +$69)

CO lost $45


9)
This hand is a standard type spot. Villain is a reg. No point betting more than we need to on the flop. I feel like people very rarely go for flop c/r these days, and if I knew villain did I would sometimes just check this back.

$2/$4 No Limit Holdem
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($416.10) 104bb
UTG+1 ($801) 200bb
griffey24 (CO) ($400.50) 100bb
BTN ($394.80) 99bb
SB ($378) 95bb
BB ($400) 100bb

Pre-Flop: ($6, 6 players) griffey24 is CO
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $12, griffey24 calls $12, 3 folds

Flop: ($30, 2 players)
UTG+1 checks, griffey24 bets $12, UTG+1 folds

Final Pot: $30

griffey24 wins $52.50 (net +$28.50)

UTG+1 lost $12


Profits on year: $2.1k
Avoidable losses on year: $735

If I'm posting too many hands let me know. I'd rather post an amount that people will reasonably look at, and get something from!