Back to the grind

So to start things off, here's today's PT stats. This was all 12 tabling, .01/.02 after finding out that I was more $EV playing .01/.02 than if I'd moved up to .02/.05, at least for now. Once I start building my roll up, I'm going to focus more on moving up levels, and maintaining any winrate. It will improve as I adapt to the current level, and once that sets in, I'm almost assured of a higher $/hour.

















Fairly standard tight play with a vpip of 18.6, but here's where things were a little different. I backed way off on the aggression. I felt like I was blowing people off their holdings too often, and that I stood to improve my winrate through smaller 1/2 1/3 pot type value bets. Further, my slower play would allow players to bluff at me where I could simply call them down with vulnerable one pair holdings and hands of that nature. This theory was either very good, or I just happend to run amazingly, because take a look at the winrate. Just under 43bb/100!!! The fact that I accomplished this through tight/passive play really is strange to me. But I saw it happening over and over. I'd have a hand like KQ and limp preflop along with 3 or 4 others. Flop comes K26 and I check, somebody in back bets smallish, or maybe even pot, I call. Check the turn, they bet I call. Check the river, they either check behind or bet and I call, and they muck something like K9, KT, K5 even! (It was suited) So maybe there's merit to this, but maybe not.

I did get aggressive at times, but only when I was holding the nuts or close to it. If I thought the other guy had a hand he would have trouble laying down, I wouldn't just value bet it either, I'd shove a stack in, even if the pot had $0.12 in it, I'm shoving $7.52 and stacking people!!!!

So when all was said and done, I decided to check out my EV play for the day, and was I in for a surprise. I knew I'd taken a few beats here and there, but I made some bad plays myself, since I was calling down weaker than normal, and I think I got stacked once or twice where I didn't have to be. Anyway, here's the EV graph.














So I was still below expectation for the day, and while it was nothing like yesterday's, this was still a fairly decent amount. About 45 big bets, which is just under one full buy in at most tables. Not horrible, but that's more than 10% of my total winnings for the day.













Here's my EV for the week. I'm running low, obviously from the last few posts, but what I care about is the red line. Look at how sharp the rise is at the end. That jump was today's play. My EV went through the freaking roof by becoming a passive player. I think I'm coming closer to optimal strategy against these tables. I can't forget my aggressive roots, and I'll definitely be 6maxing a bit to retain my ability to aggress, but this is pretty sweet. Nothing to do for now but get more hands in and keep being more winner.