Short session today but I got the money in good for the most part so I feel pretty good about it. Up a buy-in and with cashing in a $10 stellar reward I'm edging closer to a proper roll.

I've been trying to keep myself down to 4 tables. I have more time to think about my choices and I make better decisions, but I also find my mind wandering alot. I think I'll start adding a table or two when I catch myself doing so. I'd like to get in more volume but I need to be focusing on reads and whatnot more right now.

Ranges-

Ranges are screwing with me. I'm getting better at assigning ranges when their fairly obvious but for the most part I keep getting lost. When I'm facing a big decision I'll take a look at the hud and any notes I may have (another issue all together) and somewhere in the process my mind goes blank. I'm sure that it's a time and practice issue. I'll continue practicing with stove and keep trying while I'm playing and I'm sure it will get easier in time. Any tips would be appreciated.

The flip side of failing to apply a range is failing to use the information even when I know for a fact what villains range is.

Example-

Villain is 31/1 over something like 500 hands and raises to 4bb from utg. Folds around to me otb and I call w/99 for set value. I know villain has AA. Not QQ+, KK+ but AA, so the plan is to see a flop and fold if I don't hit my set. Easy yeah?

Flop comes A9x and villain bets 1/4 pot. It's a cheap call but since I know he's holding AA it's a clear fold. Do I fold? No. Why? I honestly don't know. I know the plan had to change because I hit my set, but I was still behind so I should fold. So now I'm thinking villain may have KK in his range. Wrong, villain didn't have KK in his range preflop, so he doesn't have it in his range now. Anyway, I call these little 1/4-1/2 pot bets to the river and villain shows AA.

So yeah, assign villain a range and stick to it. Narrow it down after each street and adjust it to villains tendencies, but ignoring it is just gonna cost you money. The End.