Small Stakes Development: Double bank roll!!!

When I started this blog I made a $500 deposit which is now above the $1,000 mark. Since the last coaching session I’ve played some 6K hands with a pretty decent outcome. I made 9,5 big blinds/100 or roughly 5,5 buy-ins. Here are the most important issues I’ve been working on this week. 1. Playing top-pair hands vs. a PFR that shows a lot of aggression. The worst way to handle such a situation seems to be a “Passive Calling Station Line” and call all down all three streets. There are a few other ways to handle this: You can fold on the flop, raise in position and probably get afree card on the Turn or check-raise the SOB and let him make a hard decision. I have been pretty successful when it comes to lay down my TT-QQ type of hands when someone shows a very strong line on a uncoordinated board. I even laid down my Aces against a loosing Nit who loves to play small pocket pairs and always bets All-In with the Nuts. I raised Pre Flop with AA UTG and he called from late position the flop came 5-7-9 with 2 clubs, I had the Ace of clubs so he didn’t make the Nut flush. I C-Bet ½ pot and he raises me I just call for a re-evaluation on next street. The Turn was a brick off suit 3 I checked to him and he made a 5/4 pot bet and I tanked for a while before mucking my one pair hand. I have had an Over pair on the flop 37 times and won 30 of these hands, and made a nice 300 big blinds profit. I had Top Pair Top Kicker 27 times and won 20 with a 173 big blinds profit. That’s almost 5 Buy-Ins with a one pair hand folks! Have I laid down a winning 1pair hand? Yes I have but all-in-all I think I’ve been able to smell the danger to a much larger degree than before. The only hand I screw up was against a very aggressive 40/9/4 player with a who C-Bets 80% on the Flop and 100% on the Turn. I had JJ on the button and cold-called his raise from the HJ. The board was 8 high after all streets and all draws missed so I called him down and lost to 23 big blinds vs. his KK. 2. My 3-bet percentage is still too low! My coach gave me a couple of new situations/hands to 3-bet my non monster hands, but over such a small sample as 7K hands I haven’t been involved in too many of these situations yet. I only 3-bet 31 times but took down 23 of these hands pre flop or with a flop bet. I got 4-bet four times: - Called a short stack with QQ and ran into KK - Folded AK against a tight player who raised UTG and put in a huge 4-bet. - Folded AJ to a shove. - I had Aces one and shoved hoping he had KK/QQ/AK but he folded When looking at these stats I only got 4-bet 3/31 times, hmmmm… 3. My River play is far too passive! Over the last 27,000 hands about 35% of the hands have gone check-check and I have won 65% of these with a 18 buy-in profit. I wonder how many times I would have been looked up by a worse hand had I put in a ½ pot bet? I’m still loosing a lot of value by not betting the River. Don’t be AFRAID of the River!!!