For those that don't know, I've had a decent amount of turmoil recently. My house that I bought ended up costing a ton more, and withdrawing my bankroll down to an infinitesimal amount preceded a small downswing that left me with next to nothing online.
From $2k I ran up to $3.5k, down to $1k, up to $7k, and I'm currently at $5.3k with a few bad sessions behind me. The last session I played, I had that dreaded 'forgot everything about how to play poker' feeling, so I basically just want to re-affirm some basic technical stuff.
Preflop: I've been going 2x from all positions. This has a couple of important effects; firstly people flat much wider (especially from the blinds), 3bet smaller, and when I do get 3bet I only lose 2bbs rather than 2.5 or 3 (a pretty big difference). I've been 3betting much more from the blinds, but I've definitely noticed a decent increase in the amount of 4betting I've faced. My fold to 4bet stat is an expoitable 63%, and although I've always shied away from it I think I need to start throwing in some lighter 3bet/5bet jams from LP and NOT get carried away with doing so to the point of spewing.
I think I'm starting to loathe 4betting again. I think especially IP I'm just going to flat 100% of the time, at least for the next few sessions. Min raising hands like 96s leads to 3bets to like 6x, which need to be flatted, but at the same time I'm pretty concerned at the overall weakness of my flatting range. Although, maybe I shouldn't be............ the fact that the 3bet is small to begin with means I can get away with more fit or folding without trying to force things the 11th time in a session I flat 86s and it flops JT5r, for example. Anyway, yeah, I'm gonna flat everything and see how it goes. OOP I'll keep with the small 4bet of probably like a 10% range of suited broadways + Axs or something
Flop: Tough to generalise, but I think at 200nl just cbetting IP an exploitable amount is good, while OOP take more tricky check/ bet / bet lines with my whole range. Yeah, I mean this is the kind of thing that has been making my mind go blank. So many contradictory things go through my head when I raise from BTN and flop comes J83ss. His range is wide, my range is wide, he knows my range is wide, does he realise how wide his own range is flatting a minraise? Yada yada.
Ok I'll update this later, typing about stuff has definitely helped enough for now. I think I need to start defining my 'sessions' as starting with 15 minutes talking hands on skype or something. Really important warmup so I don't dive in, have a blank mind, lose confidence and start spewing.
Here goes..........
