32,850 hands/ $122 profit/ 644 FPP's/ +7/100
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Wow... I guess looking back at the week from start to finish things were not that bad. But when the month started on Tuesday. This weeks numbers include the last two days of last month the 29th, and 30th. I began a series of retarded beats, suck outs and runner runners. I figured this would be coming soon as near the end of last month. I seemed to be riding shotgun in the steamroller. Not that I was not losing hands and pots previously. But the winners were dwarfing the losers.
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Anyway somewhere around the 7500 hand range on Tuesday. I ran into a little 23,000 break even stretch. Speaking of which 23,000 hands in three days! This second monitor I picked up is the SHIT!. Now that it has been a week I am pretty comfortable playing 18 tables. Even more so, since I figured out the scroll button on my mouse actually controls bet sizing. Once you tap the bet bar to get it started. That alone cut my time occupied in a hand down by at least half I think.
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I think some of the problems with my break even stretch which basically had me loosing 10 buy in's then winning them back. I think was mainly because I have been trying to push my stats to more resemble 6 max. The coaches keep saying a good 6 max player will do well in full ring. But I think at this level of play. The amount of people calling you with any two cards plus the level one thinking of these .02-.05 micro stakes players. Leaves you with little room to two and three barrel with hands like AK and AQ with no draw. Maybe a good stat to have up on hold em manager is the percentage of folds to C-bets on the turn.
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Anyways to adjust for this as I continued to miss everything under the sun was to simply stop raising as much. This and returned to a more passive nut peddling status. This instantly changed my direction and put me back into a solid but less frequent winning pattern. I was also starting to raise with pocket pairs 6's-8's in late position. And raising from any position with pocket pairs 9's and T's. I had also added some suited connector and suited over card trouble hands. This was to help push my pfr percentage way up. With the more frequency of raising despite I was still short of the stats provided to "help plug leaks in your game at 6-max". I believe my general table image was starting to get a little reckless.
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Also the amount of gay betting, donk betting, and inducing betting started to stand out the more hands I got in at this level. Here is so far what I think of them.
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1:Gay betting or Donk betting
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Here this mainly applies when in position although it shows up out of position or oop. At some point is it more noticeable when a player limps and you raise in position and he calls. You have raise with a hand like AK, or AQ or KQs and you totally miss the flop. Say a flop like 3 5 9 rainbow. Basically he leads into you for a small bet something even as small as 2-3 bb's. Depending on how you react to this will depend on how the rest of the streets go down. A lot of the time I have caught myself when not paying attention folding or calling this bet. I guess neither are wrong as calling is usually fairly close to pricing you in on a 6-1 draw for having two over cards with the thinking you will get a little implied odds on a later street. Folding is OK but a gay better paying attention will easily take advantage of this. Most of these micro stakes players as well as a lot of players are not playing a large number of tables so they are paying closer attention then compared to a big multi-Taber ex me.
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The problem with calling is at that point the gay better puts you on exactly big cards. Hands like previously mentioned AK, AK, KQ and depending on your aggressiveness KJ, QJ, even. This allows him to take control of the action on further streets. On the turn he can more easily bet big if a scare card doesn't hit and take the pot away from you. The player could be doing this with any two cards that hit the board or a pocket pair or any two cards just basically outplaying you.
Counters to this bet. I have found that raising the gay bet on the flop roughly pot size takes away there gusto. As this is how I might play a large pocket pair. Whether or not this gay bet was as mentioned above or a blocking bet to a draw. I would generally raise the piss out of them to charge them. And to get them to fold so they don't draw out on me. The downfall to this move is how often you are doing this. I am not sure of the percentage of people who have tracking software at this level. But if you do this every time whether or not you do have a large pocket pair, set, over cards, two pair or whatever they will definitely start playing back at you.
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2: Induce betting
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This one is used by a player that bets usually a little more than a gay or donk bet. But not enough to seem like a full on bet for value and or protection. This is usually a bet by a player that has flopped a set or two pair and is hoping. If you are an aggressive player for a raise so he can re pop you with another raise. I haven't seen to many of this at nl10 so far. Though I will point out the amount of times people bet out with the nuts a lot of the time. I have found it really makes no difference other than slow playing will be the death of you unless you cripple the deck. Like flopping quads or flopping a straight flush. That betting for value at these lower levels is essential. Obviously you can tweak this for more value but more tweakage leads to being sucked out on more.
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