Quote Originally Posted by Jason
... Also don't forget that a great deal of money is made and lost I believe in seemingly mundane pots like ones where no one flops anything, blind steals, and the like.
I've been trying to do this more lately. Previously I would try to steal, hit part of the flop, cbet, get called, then lose in a showdown I never should have been in. I still cbet some, but I will now give up on hands I shouldn't be in.

Quote Originally Posted by Jason
As for donk bets, I like to raise them as well, because they are by and large usually weak. If you have a genuinely strong hand, why not let the pre-flop raiser put money in the pot and either continue to call and not fully reveal the strength of your hand or check raise and get even more money than a simple bet would achieve? I like to see showdowns with donk bets when I can because they are USUALLY very reliable tells in that donk bets by villains tend to consistently reveal the same thing. If a villain donks out and they are strong, they will tend to always be strong when they donk bet. If they are weak, they will always tend to be weak.
Until last night I never saw a strong donk better. Made some notes.

Something else I've been doing lately is defending my big blinds a little better by raising up to two limpers and definitely one limper. I've also tightened my sb range up considerably. Any time I looked at my positional stats I would always be playing in the sb way too much with stats similar to co and btn.

Last night was another pretty good night. Up about 3.5 BIs

I've also slowed down my play considerably. I have always played fast tables but started using my time bank more for tough decisions. Slowing down also revealed many other outs I had that I didn't see before. I had been missing double gutshots. I didn't hit them but I did have odds to call and won a few with mp.

Another area I've been working on is when villian checks down to the river and then makes a pot size bet. Now I think some more before folding/raising/calling to see if it makes sense for villian to do this. I had been spewing a bit on the river with high card when villian would do this. I have stopped this. I do now call river sometimes with mp when it looks like villian missed his draws and is trying to take down the pot.