Not much to report for the past couple of days. Played some $1/2 limit cash games and had some minor success. I’m taking the guru’s words to heart, really trying to play tighter in the 9-handed games. I also played some 6-handed $1/2 limit and have had some success with it, too. I loosen up my play considerably in the 6-person games, but still focus on playing quality hands and getting off losing hands. The few times I lost big pots, I actually knew that I was beaten but went ahead and made the crying call (the correct play in each case, or so I think).
In the cash games, I have also have been working on locating the weak-tight player(s) at the table and betting strongly into them, often with a lowly bottom pair, or even stone-cold bluffs. A few guys I played with would repeatedly call to the river and then back down if I kept the aggression up. (One of the guru’s old commandments (now absorbed into another, general one on aggression) was To Always Bet The River.) Anyway, it was pretty easy to make money from the weak-tights if they were drawing and didn’t get there—and also to get off the hand if and when they did bet back on the river. Play the player was the mantra for today.
Oh, and I tried the “warm up SnG” approach early this morning. The idea was to practice with a lower stakes tourney, and then move onto a higher stakes SnG once I was in my poker groove. Only trouble, however, was the $2 turbo I played went a full hour (yes, a turbo that went 60 minutes; you can imagine the blinds at that point!) Good news was I took second place. Bad news is that I basically used up all my allotted early-morning play time in the warm-up game. I moneyed, so I can't complain, but an hour wasn't exactly what I planned for in the practice game…
All-in for now…
-Bug
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