Played another session last night, just a short one but I lost 1/4 stack the first hand with a 3-bet bluff + cbet. That table broke down and I ended up HU v's the guy who took my $25 as well as having him on my left on the other table I was on. Took a gradual number of small pots on both, this guy was awful. Was weird, he seemed to be selective about what hands he'd play OTB HU, but in the SB he called every single raise. Ended up stacking him for 110bbs with nut flush v's 2nd nut flush when he called my raise with Q8o and we both turned the flush.


Mainly wanted to make a quick note about today. Woke up early but wife went to the gym so I had to be ready incase our son woke. Ended up sweating DaGoat playing 50nl (favor he did as its more relevant to me) for an hour. After that my wife was looking after our son so I fired up some tables. Had to play the waiting list game, and every table I got on was bad by the time I got on. Every single player around 22/18 type stats. Played 40 hands, got 3-bet about 4 times which is darn near every hand I raised PF, shut them down and booked a $2 profit.

I see that as a good day. I didnt play when circumstances could have been bad for me, and I quit when the tables were no good. Positive stuff, even though it sucks a bit I didnt get a good session in.

Had a look just now, didnt expect many tables running but thought there might be one or two that had some fish. There were 5 tables running, with what seemed to be the same 6 people on every table, with avg VPIP below 25 on all of them, most under 20. You must really want VIP points to play that shit. Time better spent watching a training vid I think.


Might detour a bit on that. Been watching a heap of BFP vids, trying out all the coaches, and also thinking back to DC and other vids. I REALLY prefer more lecture type vids, where they pick a topic, find some example hands and go through in detail. Failing that, I prefer pre-recorded live play vids, where they pause the play and go indepth into spots, with a heap of strategy discussion etc. I can barely even bother watching ones where they pause a bit, but only to discuss the exact hand and play in general, and very bottom of my list is live play with commentary done at the time. You occassionally get a little nugget of info in the discussions of live play, but generally unless they discuss the principles and reasons behind the plays, I tend to find them more just entertainment. Sure its fun to watch some highstakes guru playing big dollar games, but I really dont feel like I get much from it. BFP seems to have a mix. One or two coaches I've kind of taken off my watching list for now as their vids are just commentary, but a couple of their coaches are putting out really top notch vids. Main thing is to really take it in, including pausing regularly and taking notes/etc.