Tough night last night, lost a couple of buy ins. This post is generated by my studying this morning, most of it won't concern you but some highlights:

I currently have 19,219 hands in PT3. I started this morning by studying which hands work for me as my biggest winners/losers:
Winners: AA, AKo, KK, JJ, 99, AQs, 66, 77, AKs, 88
Losers: AJs, K3o, A7o, 97o, K4o, AQo, AJo, ATo, KTo, KQo

Some surprises in there. like 66 is one of my top ten winners. Also the last 5 and biggest losers... all are good hands in position. Why am I losing so much with them.

So let's dig into the losers, since they are surprising. KQo is a good hand with no limpers ahead and raising it from the button, but let's see where I have been playing it from and losing so much... have played it 178 times with a win percentage of 27.8% and a total loss of 23.19. Not good. Let's see, 27 of those times were from small blind (15%) - of those, 5 were successful blind steals. 20 of those hands (11% were from BB), the majority of those were me chasing with second pair. Have to stop that.

Let's see, the next biggest loser hand was KTo, which I appear to be limping way too much, too many folds preflop.

Looking through these hands, I am limping these mediocre hands too often... that seems to be a huge leak.

Now, going back through my last session where I lost a full buy in... I got owned by big stack... he slow played a flush he hit on the turn and I had to show it, loss of $12.

Let's go back through some other big losses over the last few days:

This hand I think I should have bailed on, but straights are hard for me to get away from when they hit...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (UTG+1) ($15.85)
MP1 ($5)
MP2 ($20.25)
MP3 ($11.10)
CO ($10.60)
Button ($10.65)
SB ($10.25)
BB ($2)
UTG ($4.50)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with A, J
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.40, 4 folds, Button calls $0.40, 2 folds

Flop: ($0.95) 3, 4, Q (2 players)
Hero bets $0.70, Button raises to $1.40, Hero calls $0.70

Turn: ($3.75) K (2 players)
Hero checks, Button checks

River: ($3.75) 10 (2 players)
Hero bets $1.95, Button raises to $7.20, Hero raises to $12.45, Button calls $1.65 (All-In)

Total pot: $21.45 | Rake: $1.05
Main pot: $21.45 between Hero and Button, won by Button

Results in white below:
Button had 9, 8 (flush, Queen high).
Hero had A, J (straight, Ace high).
Outcome: Button won $20.40

This hand was just horrible... after he raised my air I should have gotten away:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

Hero (CO) ($10.35)
Button ($4.85)
SB ($9.85)
BB ($8.45)
UTG ($10.40)
UTG+1 ($0.50)
MP1 ($5.30)
MP2 ($11.65)
MP3 ($6.35)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K, A
2 folds, MP1 raises to $0.30, 2 folds, Hero raises to $1.20, 3 folds, MP1 calls $0.90

Flop: ($2.55) 7, 10, 6 (2 players)
MP1 checks, Hero bets $2, MP1 raises to $4.10 (All-In), Hero calls $2.10

Turn: ($10.75) 9 (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($10.75) 10 (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $10.75 | Rake: $0.50

Results in white below:
MP1 had Q, Q (two pair, Queens and tens).
Hero mucked K, A (one pair, tens).
Outcome: MP1 won $10.25

And this hand... villian is 13/7/2 over a couple hundred hands. This hand shocked the crap out of me, I don't think I played it bad knowing some history on him, but dang did I get stomped:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (9 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

SB ($2.65)
BB ($13.40)
UTG ($15.15)
UTG+1 ($3.75)
MP1 ($10.30)
MP2 ($10)
Hero (MP3) ($9.30)
CO ($10)
Button ($8.60)

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J, A
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $0.10, 2 folds, Hero raises to $0.40, 3 folds, BB calls $0.30, UTG+1 calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.25) A, 5, 4 (3 players)
BB bets $1, UTG+1 calls $1, Hero calls $1

Turn: ($4.25) 10 (3 players)
BB bets $4, UTG+1 calls $2.35 (All-In), Hero raises to $7.90 (All-In), BB calls $3.90

River: ($22.40) 4 (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $22.40 | Rake: $1.10
Main pot: $11.30 between BB, UTG+1 and Hero, won by BB
Side pot 1: $11.10 between BB and Hero, won by BB

Results in white below:
BB had 2, 3 (straight, five high).
UTG+1 mucked A, J (two pair, Aces and fours).
Hero mucked J, A (two pair, Aces and fours).
Outcome: BB won $21.30


I'm still studying, probably more today than all week... advice is appreciated... I'll post my graph when I break 20,000 hands and really be seeking advice..