Tilted and Glad

I thought I had things figured out, I thought I could bulldoze tables and continue to win at 22BB/100 hands, but boy was I wrong.

I lost a little over 5 buyins, I was down to $220, then back up to $247, then back down to 209.

I played a lot of hands very poorly, being too aggressive even when people show resistance.

Well at least, now I can focus on my projects, I have like 5 projects to do, so I won't be playing much poker until the holidays.

Playing tilted is not fun.

New Rule: 5 Buy-in Stop Rule for the Day.

A Revelation

Things have been going pretty smoothly at $0.05/$0.10 6-Max NL tables. I've been beating the game pretty well at about 18BB/100 hands through about 3000 hands.

I always took a tight aggressive (TAG) approach to my NL tourney game, but after reading forums, reading blogs, watching FREE Cardrunner videos (cannot afford a subscription yet) on Cardplayer, I knew that a loose aggressive (LAG) approach is the winning formula for 6-max NL games.

Why tinker with my winning approach? Why did Tiger Wood change up his swing twice even when he was the best player in the game?

Answer: To get better.

By no means am I saying I am the best poker player in the world or even remotely close to being a good player. In my quest to a million bucks, I am going to learn things about my game that only practice at the tables will improve. I did not have to incorporate this style into my game at the penny/2penny games or 2penny/nickel because playing ABC poker is the winning formula.

I though playing LAG was calling more hands and seeing more flops but oh was I so wrong. I still managed to make good money by outplaying my opponents after the flop but I was doing it wrong. I was too loose without enough aggressiveness.

So, I was playing at some tables when I thought it would be fun to raise almost every hand. I raised/reraised many pots and took down lots of small pots and lost a lot of small pots, but when I finally had a hand, I get people calling me down with all sorts of ridiculous hands. For example:

Gotta love it when they are almost drawing dead.
Hand #1

Hand #2
I especially love this last one, I mean, my aggressive play really got to him.
Hand #3

I love this new style of play, I have increased to almost 22BB/100 hands through about 4000 hands. Thats about a 4BB/100 jump through 1000 more hands from my 3000. This new style is very volatile and if played wrong can cost a lot of chips. I still have some kinks to work out of my game, but I think I have adapted greatly and can officially say I'm crushing the games now. I will probably have to play another 10K hands at this level before I reach my goal of $625 dollars and move up to the $0.10/$0.25 NL games.

This style of playing has made poker more fun and profitable.

No Tilt, Just Winning

I have been playing pretty well at the $0.05/$0.10 NL-6 Max Games
Normally I would go on tilt after a couple of these type hands.

I kind of felt he had aces but what are you gonna do in this hand. I have no problem going with this hand as he could have had a large range of hands beat, pretty much everything except aces. LOL.

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Seat 1: Mikeyswa ($18.55)
Seat 2: Yankeezss ($9.55)
Seat 3: Fradia85 ($9.45)
Seat 4: jlukey33 ($12.25) -
Seat 5: BrianHoang ($4.45) -
Seat 6: sstranger86 ($27.40) -


PRE-FLOP:

BrianHoang posts small blind $0.05
sstranger86 posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: BrianHoang


CALL Mikeyswa ($0.10)
FOLD Yankeezss
CALL Fradia85 ($0.10)
RAISE jlukey33 ($0.50)
RAISE BrianHoang ($1.20)
RAISE sstranger86 ($3.30)
FOLD Mikeyswa
FOLD Fradia85
CALL jlukey33 ($2.80)
RAISE BrianHoang ($4.45)
CALL sstranger86 ($1.15)
CALL jlukey33 ($1.15)


FLOP:

Pot: $14.9
   

BET sstranger86 ($22.95)
FOLD jlukey33


TURN:

Pot: $37.85
     



RIVER:

Pot: $37.85
      



SHOWDOWN:
BrianHoang:

sstranger86:


sstranger86 collected $12.9 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $13 Rake: $0.65

Final Board:
     

Seat 1: Mikeyswa folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.1)
Seat 2: Yankeezss folded before Flop didnt bet - Net Gain/Loss: ($0)
Seat 3: Fradia85 folded before Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-0.1)
Seat 4: jlukey33 button folded on the Flop - Net Gain/Loss: ($-4.45)
Seat 5: BrianHoang small blind showed [Kc Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($-4.5)
Seat 6: sstranger86 big blind showed [Ah Ac] and won 12.90 with a pair of Aces - Net Gain/Loss: ($8.45)
  


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Here is another tough hand, its nice when you have aces and get it all in preflop for about 80 BB.

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Seat 5: BrianHoang ($9.55) - -
Seat 6: gillouch ($8.40) -


PRE-FLOP:

BrianHoang posts small blind $0.05
gillouch posts BIG blind $0.10
Dealt To: BrianHoang


RAISE BrianHoang ($0.30)
RAISE gillouch ($0.90)
RAISE BrianHoang ($1.80)
RAISE gillouch ($7.50)
RAISE BrianHoang ($9.55)
CALL gillouch ($0.90)


FLOP:

Pot: $21.1
   



TURN:

Pot: $21.1
     



RIVER:

Pot: $21.1
      



SHOWDOWN:
gillouch:

MUCK BrianHoang

gillouch collected $16 from main pot

SUMMARY:
Total pot: $16 Rake: $0.80

Final Board:
     

Seat 5: BrianHoang button small blind mucked [Ah Ac] - Net Gain/Loss: ($-9.85)
Seat 6: gillouch big blind showed [Kc Ks] and won 16 with three of a kind, Kings - Net Gain/Loss: ($7.5)
  


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Losing two of these types of hand is really tough to start a session, but I am getting a lot better with my tilt control and ended up winning for the session.

I'm playing really well and just hope I have some time to put in a few more hands.