Saturday's session was a little grind, +$250 in 4 hours. I won the first hand I played and was never in the red, so an atypically non-swingy sesh for me. No real big hands, no huge pots or huge decisions.
One thing I've been trying to do more of lately is find good spots to bluff and attack capped ranges. This is one of those things that I think about, talk about and never really do enough. In "Let There Be Range," it mentions stuff like, "You think you do (some exotic aggro move) but you don't. Keep track of how many times you do this over (short amount of time."
It's good to think about these things, because in games such as mine, it can be easy to decide to just give up too often and see people check down marginal hands that beat you when you could have taken it. It's a reminder to keep a reasonable bluff frequency, and makes us more difficult to play against.
In finding spots to bluff, I always examine my range and decide if I have a good hand to bluff with. If there are image considerations, then we can let go of spots where we have a bad hand to bluff with and still not be exploitable. Here are a couple of spots that I felt were mandatory bluffs:
Hand 1:
6-handed
Villain MP ($800ish)
Me CO ($720)
Folds to villain, who open limps.
I raise to $15 with
It folds to him and he calls. Villain is 45ish Korean guy who is pretty spewy. He actually probably views me as tight, given our history.
Flop (pot $33):
MP leads for $25, Hero calls.
Turn (pot $67):
MP bets $25, Hero raises to $70, he calls.
River (pot $207):
MP checks, Hero bets $120.
Hand 2:
9-handed
Hero ($450) is UTG+2 with
Hero raises to $12, 4 calls, blinds fold.
Of note, BTN is a fish who was going to fold but then he must have noticed he was the button and lol pot odds, so he calls. CO is pretty competent player.
Flop ($63):
Hero thinks a bit and checks, 2 checks, CO ($325) bets $25, BTN ($200) calls $25, Hero raises to $80.
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