Back in the saddle

Had a good short day today. Only put in 450 hands, but I made them all count, raking in just over 62 big bets per 100 hands for the session. I played very aggressively today, and it only burned me one time. This hand should give an idea of the aggression I'm referring to.

I still like the play, but I posted it on 2+2 to see what others have to say. I still think it was +EV given that I should have had solid fold equity against QQ, and after his call I was only about a 2:1 dog to make my straight.

I've changed my layout while playing, and I've taken to the new look quite well. I think there's less distraction, and the only thing I'm going to change is the color of the backs of cards on the table. It's just too easy to not know how many are in the hand. Going into photoshop to make them bright yellow after I post this. Here's what my screen looks like now:

One thing you may notice in the picture is that now there are numbers above all my opponents. I've downloaded gametime plus which takes whatever stats I choose from pokertracker, and places them above the coresponding opponent at my tables.

I have used VP$IP%, Preflop Raise %, and Total Aggression Factor. VPIP is voluntarily put money in pot percentage for preflop play, preflop raise % is what it says, and total aggression is (Raise%+Bet%)/Call%. Anyone who has an aggression factor around 1 is pretty tight, and once you reach 3, that player is fairly aggressive.

Here are my stats from today's play.

My agression is just through the roof. You'll be hard-pressed to find too many other players out there with a total aggression factor of 6.90. I'm glad that I'm playing aggressively, because the game of no limit rewards that aggression, but I know I still have a multitude of holes in my game. I'm scouring over my stats in pokertracker to try and find every instance in which I feel I could have easily made a clearly better play, and figure out why I didn't do that in the heat of the moment.

I'm going to get on that, and probably post a blog about my discussions on 2+2 tonight along with what I deem interesting about my playing style.