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Was a very nice morning. Okay, so last night I watched a bunch of the videos on this site, and BigSpenda's twice 'cause they were closer to the limits I play. This morning I changed my play as follows:
1) I talked to myself the entire time I was playing. Made my dog nuts, but WTF, he don't pay rent.
2) Put a picture of a hot chick as the wallpaper on my monitor. It was either that or change my FTR avatar to one. But I can't give up Biggie, so wallpaper it was.
3) Tightened up considerably.
4) Only played non-premium hands from late position (unless I could limp an Axs or SC early)
5) Made bigger bets all round so if they called or raised me I'd actually know something. 4-6BB raises PF, 2/3- Pot flop bets, 1/2-2/3 turn bets...) And then was much more willing to fold if they played back at me. I know I'll probably have to unlearn a bit of the "fold if played back at" when I make it to higher limits, but for right now, I'll consider this a "basic".
6) No C-bets into MW pot if OOP and missed the flop (esp. w/ AKo, which killed me 8 out of 10 times yesterday)
The results? (Yeah, I know I'm basically talking to myself, but I can still get all rhetorical...)
Played 100 hands single tabling 10NL (could force myself to focus on trying to get better reads). Ran 16/8/3. And finished up $12. Only two hands that made me go "hmmm..."
1. Fought my urge to fold AA to this AI. But villain was 40/12.2/2 and I got to get away from seeing sets everywhere. Plus a bunch of people wiser than me have suggested here that it's usually okay to go AI HU on the Flop with AA & KK overpairs. So that's what I did...
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05./$0.10.
10 players
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Pre-flop: (10 players) Hero is UTG+1 with A  A 
UTG raises to $0.35, Hero raises to $0.7, 3 folds, MP3 calls, 2 folds, SB calls, BB folds, UTG calls.
Flop: T 7  4 ($2.9, 4 players)
SB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $2.9, MP3 folds, SB raises all-in $10.48, UTG folds, Hero calls all-in $9.67.
Uncalled bets: $12.57 returned to Hero.
Turn: 7  ($13.38, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $23.86)
River: 9 ($13.38, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: $23.86)
Results:
Final pot: $13.38
2. Only questionable moment on this one was the shortstack push raise on my F bet. But I was getting decent money with TPTK, I thought was basically a snap call. So I called. And then I snapped. Hope someone will tell me if this was spew...
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05./$0.10.
9 players
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Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP1 with Q A
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.5, MP2 calls, 3 folds, SB calls, BB folds.
Flop: A 7 2 ($1.6, 3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.6, MP2 folds, SB raises all-in $2.76, Hero calls.
Turn: 9 ($7.12, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $7.12)
River: J ($7.12, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $7.12)
Results:
Final pot: $7.12
Now I gotta work some more... The $2.13 I'm averaging an hour playing poker just ain't gonna cover the rent.
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You mean I can bet ANYTHING...?
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For me that's a sh!t load of poker. But kept it taggie and found tight, aggressive betting actually keeps me out of most situations at this level where I really gotta get tricky. Which is good since I'm no good at tricky.