Monky blog. 2013 edition. Welcome to the circus.

Current status:
I'm grinding 4 tables of 10NL on Bovada with a less than stellar 7bb/100 winrate over 30k hands. There is a cap at 4 tables, which I'm outgrowing more every day. My sessions are 3 - 8 hours in length. My daily goal is 5 hours.

I also play a single table of 7-stud H/L @ $0.05/$0.10 ante $0.01 in the late evenings when I am bored of NLHE. I haven't kept records of my winrate, but it's in the green. I'd estimate I'm winning about 5BB/hr. EZ game. I can't imagine playing more than one table of a stud game, though. There are so many board cards and betting streets that I can't hold two tables separate in my mind when I try. Which means I'd need to be beating $0.50/$1.00 to compare to my current winrate at 10NL.

I also play a single table of $0.02/$0.05 PLO8 from time to time, for a few hours each week. I suck. I get quartered so often and almost never sweep the pot. That said, I'm down less than 2 BI over my run, and I feel like there's a huge amount of fishiness at these tables. It seems like a good investment of time to improve at this game.

Major issues:
Ranges. I have a sense of strong/weak most of the time, and I'm good at identifying the value hands in Villains' ranges, but the bluff hands elude me entirely. I'm constantly surprised/amazed at showdowns.

Board Textures. I can't seem to get my sense of board textures into my A-game. When I'm not playing, I have a much better sense of what boards are scary to Villain, not just me. As soon as I'm in a hand, though... I just throw it out the window and start button mashing. Arrgghh! I'm so better than that.

Betting. God damn it! I want their chips in the pot, not mine!!! I don't feel like I'm getting enough value out of my hands. I C-bet the flop sporadically. I don't bet enough thin value spots OTR. I check OTT too often. I bet too much OTT too often. This all goes back to ranges... and board textures... and button mashing.

Here's the plan.
Take 3 - 5 hands per session and go over them before the hole cards are revealed. Put Villains on ranges for all streets. Keep a file of my guesses. Check back when hole cards are revealed. See if I was right. Learn from my mistakes.

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