It's been a while since I wrote anything but I feel this is a great time seeing as how I seem to be at a crossroads in both life and in poker. I start baseball practice tomorrow at 5:30 am and will be doing that 4 days a week. As a result I need to commit to earlier bed time and more exercise so my volume of hands will need to go down.

As far as poker goes, I crossed the 100k hands mark a couple days ago. I a in the midst of a downswing that has me questioning everything I know about poker. I've done tons of reading on these forums and watched Spenda's micro videos here and at grinder school and for a while I thought I was making progress. Now though, I just don't know. I tried playing TAGGy only to experience insane amount of variance which lead me to try playing a more passive pot control style which has only lead to more losses. I'm getting so frustrated because I feel like I am playing well when I play TAGGy but I seem to end up value-towning myself so often that I am beginning to feel like I need to scale back my aggression. Especially in 3bet pots.

I have a few questions for everyone who is more experienced than I am.

First, currently I am usually 3betting with hands like JJ+ In position and TT OOP. I also 3bet AK and AQs both in position and OOP usually. Additionally I tend to polarize my range a bit by 3betting some suited connectors IP. I'm getting a bit uncertain about my 3betting range such as the inclusion of AQ and TT-JJ IP. Is it better to flat these vs an EP raise to keep their range as wide as possible? Vs. a TAGG? Vs. a LAGG? Vs. any passive person? These questions I just can't figure out right now.

Second, I have really been trying to refine my Cbetting recently with mixed results. So I'd like to just throw out a couple theories about it and have better people let me know what they think. As far as Cbetting goes it is an interesting balance. The way I see it you want to be Cbetting wet flops to extract value with your made hands, ie TPTK and Cbetting dry flops with your airy hands so as to pick up the dead money. Obviously, Cbetting is also highly villain dependent but is that basic theory correct? For instance, if we Hold AhQd and flop TPTK on the board Qs7s8h this is surely a good spot to Cbet to both protect our hand and to extract value from draws. On the other hand if we hold AsQc on a board like Qs7s8s is this also a good spot to Cbet because of our nut draw? Or is this a better spot to check call?

As for dry flops. Let us say we hold JJ in a 3bet pot and the flop comes down 3h7cQs. Shall we 3bet here? The only hands calling us as far as I can see are beating us except maybe TT or AK. Conversely, if the board is 3h7c9h. Is this a spot to b/f? Can we assume that the only hands raising our Cbet are beating us?

Clearly I have an assload of learning to do since after 50000+ hands at 5NL I have fallen all the way back to breaking even. I just wish that I could really pinpoint my leaks because right now I simply have no idea why I am losing other than running bad and sometimes stacking off too light.