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Showing posts with label bankroll building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bankroll building. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Bankroll Builder - Day 21
Hit the $200 mark today. Yipee! Today was a typical session for e-pal and me, and that's not all good news, either. We got ourselves into trouble right out of the gate, then had to grind our way back to positive territory. This has been a common problem in my own game, and the reason I (usually) use a pregame checklist. High on that checklist is the necessity to play very conservatively for the first few laps of the table and get into what I call the "Zen of Folding" mode. E-pal, who tends to be on the aggro side anyway, doesn't help our cause, often arguing in favor of "going for it" against unknown players. Oh well. The good news is that we continue to play extremely solidly (after we dig ourselves a hole that is!). Patience, RED-i, aggression... these are the basics of bankroll building 101. In any case, here's e-pal's record of our sessions to date:
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Bankroll Builder - Update
I've been on an emergency business trip the last three days, so my daily schedule has been a bit screwed up. Fortunately, e-pal has been very accommodating with our coaching/playing sessions taking place at weird/late/super-early hours in the bankroll builder exercise.
We've been starting to add in some $25 Zone tables into the mix, as the effective rake is lower (as a percentage) and the villains at those stakes only marginally better. We're buying in short at these bigger tables (due to bankroll management considerations (yes, I know, this is a VERY aggressive BRM exercise)) and playing a very patient, SPR-based approach, with a focus on a) preflop hand selection (especially gap concept related); b) position (which of course ties into (a)); c) aggression (i.e., if we're not willing to raise with it, we shouldn't be playing it); and d) post-flop board texture reading and judicious c-betting.
One of the biggest/most-common leaks we've been seeing is many villains' tendencies to cold-calling with trap and weak hands too much. And if they do, they also often play an obvious fit-or-fold postflop style. Both of these are pretty easy to exploit if/when you recognize the tendencies.
In any case, here's the graph I was sent last night by e-pal:
All-in for now...
-Bug
We've been starting to add in some $25 Zone tables into the mix, as the effective rake is lower (as a percentage) and the villains at those stakes only marginally better. We're buying in short at these bigger tables (due to bankroll management considerations (yes, I know, this is a VERY aggressive BRM exercise)) and playing a very patient, SPR-based approach, with a focus on a) preflop hand selection (especially gap concept related); b) position (which of course ties into (a)); c) aggression (i.e., if we're not willing to raise with it, we shouldn't be playing it); and d) post-flop board texture reading and judicious c-betting.
One of the biggest/most-common leaks we've been seeing is many villains' tendencies to cold-calling with trap and weak hands too much. And if they do, they also often play an obvious fit-or-fold postflop style. Both of these are pretty easy to exploit if/when you recognize the tendencies.
In any case, here's the graph I was sent last night by e-pal:
All-in for now...
-Bug
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