I have a coach!

I have played some 7,000 hands since the last update. The plan was to identify: A) Two loose weak victims at the table and trying to play as many hands as possible against them with position. B) Two weak tight victims at the table and trying to push them off their hands when they show weakness and I have position. It started pretty well but then I guess I got a little bit too excited and this combined with a few bad beats I lost 4 buy-ins within just a few hundred hands. Looking back at this bad short stretch, I realize I have to have a plan when things get out of control. Good players change gear back and forth many times within a session which I didn’t, I just kept hammering. I feel very comfortable at NL25 and was able to take a break and get my $$ back the next day and end this 7K hands with a 170bb profit. Not a great result but still a profit. Last week I had my first session with my coach. After talking a while about my game and my goals we did a 30 min sweating session. Afterwards I sent him my last 50K hand history which we went through together yesterday. Instead of continuing this 100K project divided into 20 different blocks I have decided to divide my training blocks into 2 weeks sessions focusing on the issues my coach considers to be the most important things to work on. Here is a quick update from our session. We went through half a dozen of common issues and situations where I loose money or where I can extract more value. Here are the most important ones:

1. Playing a top-pair hand against 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 3 streets.
2. My 3-bet percentage is still too low. I was given a couple of new situations/hands to 3-bet my non monster hands.
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. Hmmm, I wonder how many times I would have been looked up by a worse hand had I put in a ½ pot bet?

Results after 27,000 hands. Winnings: $318 Win rate: +4,75bb/100 Bonus: $0 Bank Roll $818 (started with $500)