OMFG I run good for once!
Been playing the last couple nights, and I’m actually not running like complete crap. I hit a lot of sets and they held (lol stop the presses!), and had a lot of KK/AA where I was able to extract value. I was also getting some nice position spots where I was able to pick up the pot with nothing or with a made hand with weak SD value. In the last two days, I’m up around 10 BIs, and am actually up 2 BI overall for the month.
I was gonna go to this electronic music fest in Minneapolis last night (Spark Festival, for those of you who want to google it…they bring in some pretty big names), but I was pretty tired and I had to work at 8:30 this morning. So instead I stayed home and played some FF12 and poker. I’m gonna head over to Minneapolis for the closing night of Spark tonight, so I think there will be no poker. I have like 8 or 9 days left in the month, and am 12k hands shy of my goal. So there’s still plenty of time if I stay focused. Oh yeah…and I’m like…2,350 VPPs away from Platinum, which should be easily doable if I just stay on track.
One more thing: minraising as a blind steal is awesome. Crazy thing, I need it to work less often, yet (over a small sample) I think I’m having a higher frequency of success. I think this is due to the fact that people like to 3b a blind steal, but they realize there’s very little value in light 3b a minraise, since even if I fold, they’re usually risking 6 or 7 to win 3, instead of 9 to win 4. Since I am raising with basically the same frequency, the payoff to light 3b it OOP isn’t as great. And if they 3b correctly, I can call with a wide range if stacks are deep enough, and play a position pot vs an OOP player with likely a rag hand. And if they 3b incorrectly, I will only call when I have them crushed. So double whammy for them.