From what I could figure he was raising pretty much all bets postflop where he called preflop, however I only had 50 hands total on him. I dunno, if he'd had a worse A or a FD I probably pat myself on the back as a genius, but losing 150 BBs like this just seems stupid (QJs).

Like I say, no internet in my room last night so watched some old vids I'd downloaded and never watched and just thought poker for a bit. I watched the RL NL Grinder eps 3, and there was some really good discussion. I realised afterwards, that if I'm going to benefit from watching stuff like that, I really need to "study" it. Like I was saying before about recording my conversations, I need to take the interesting parts of the videos and record them also. I have a fairly good brain, but I cant rely on it remembering every little spot that I've seen talked about once. This lead me down another side path. One reason I've been unkeen to take on any coaching, is that I dont feel I'd take full benefit from it. Maybe a video review kind of thing I could watch multiple times, but in general I'm sure guys like ISF and Zook could give me a lot of great info in a couple hrs of coaching, but I'm not sure I'll remember it all enough to benefit from it properly. I'm thinking if I can get into the habit of recording and reviewing discussions/vids/etc, then I can more confidently get some coaching and know I'll record the good stuff and study it later to make sure it sinks in. I'm leaning towards doing that once I'm comfortably at 100nl (say around $3k roll).

Another thought going back to a conversation with Griffey (and a great example of why I need to record this stuff because I cant remember the exact circumstances), I think we were talking about spots where I was delay c-betting medium strength hands because I felt our opponent folds a lot and only calls with better. Now if his calling range is largely reduced to a tight range of nut/near nut hands, I should be bluffing that spot like a monkey. Now the general concept applies, if there are spots where I dont think theres much value betting, then I should be bluffing those spots a LOT. I think I need to start looking for those kinds of spots and taking advantage of them.

One last thought, I pretty much never c/r. Maybe occassionally on the flop if I have a set and think they'll c-bet almost 100% and probably call, but I dont think I've ever, ever c/r'd a river. I think I lose a lot of value in that spot. It was one talked about in the video I watched. You check turn for deception or a c/r opportunity, but then when they dont bet turn like you expect you throw out a desperation value bet on the river instead of following on your plan and letting him bluff his draws.

Plenty to think about. Definately time to start getting serious about all this again though.