So I finally decided to start up a blog. I think writing down my session reviews for all the world to see will help to make me a better player. This blog is entirely for my own benefit but if you feel you have something to add, then by all means drop a post.

For those who don't know already, I single table. I was playing at $20nl in March, but all through April I've been on one long breakeven stretch at 10 man SnGs (curse the 20% rake). All of a sudden FR looks very tempting again.

This weekend marked my return to FR. I decided to ease myself back in gently and started at $10nl and boy am I glad I did. Those non stop multi-tabling SnGs destroyed my post-flop edge. For some reason I was struggling to break out of tourney mode, and ended up losing a few buy-ins because of it. I found myself overvaluing TPTK (-$6), thinking shoves are bluffs (-$4), marrying top pf hands like KK and AA (-$15), plus a couple of coolers (but we don't care about those). I was happy with my play overall and quite pleased with how narrow I got some of my ranges, but I really need to learn to fold good hands again. I would watch my stack grow little by little as I eke out my advantage against the $10nl tards, then WHAM walk right into something that (in hindsight) was actually pretty avoidable and lose a chunk. The thing is that most people at $10nl play so completely face up that it should be simple, yet I found myself calling a shove on a JJx board because duh I has teh aycees, or calling an UTG limp-3bet-5bet because duh I has teh keengs. Letting you all see this idiocy should help me never to do it again though.

The point for me to take way from this: there is no spoon. Crappy line from the Matrix I know, but those hands I should have got away from felt like a bullet in my side, and as soon as I can remember that it's not the spoon I'm trying to bend, but myself, I can start doing this again:


Will stick at $10nl till I can shake off SnG mode, it's just cheaper that way. Tonight should be better though - these leaks are easily plugged, they just happen to be really expensive ones.

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