Below is my graph for Thursday's session only, where I added a good chunk to the roll:
I'm going to write a piece about identifying a few leaks in my game, but I think I'll do that in a separate post. However, I feel the need to post a hand history from Tuesday's session which holds great educational value. Playing an extremely "nitty" style is an easy way to make money at lower limits. I run into lots of nits every day, and I don't mind playing against them, though I'd must rather be up against fish, for obvious reasons. Hell, playing 13.5/9.5 poker, I'm not that far removed from beind a nit myself. However, nits don't win money at high limits (think $600 NL and up). Why not? Because they are extremely predictable and the bulk of the regulars at the higher limits actually pay attention to your playstyle and are running a HuD with statistics for information (as I do).
Players at high limits paying attention to playstyle should make it more difficult for all players though, right? The problem for the nits of the world is that they play so few hands, their range is extremely narrow and it makes it very easy to play perfect poker against them. They make money at the lower limits because the majority of players (and even many of the winning TAG regulars) aren't paying enough attention to their style, or know how to exploit it even if they are. So, without further ado I give you a hand history that shows how easy it is to play against a known nit.
Our nitty villian in this hand is 9/1/1 over 500+ hands.
NL Texas Hold'em (0.10/0.25)
Game #16083855692, Table "Jucunda III" (9 Handed Max.)
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Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: YES. GO ($34.10 in chips) Seat 2: Motiv8tor ($26 in chips) Seat 3: 813titan ($9.15 in chips) Seat 4: Daradon ($27.85 in chips) Seat 5: Ronfar3 ($28.65 in chips) Seat 7: sbf20 ($43.35 in chips) Seat 8: roland1952 ($25 in chips) Seat 9: djjeffypoo ($21.50 in chips) djjeffypoo posts the small blind $0.10 YES. GO posts the big blind $0.25 |
Preflop:
Ronfar3 has been dealt [Qs Qh] Motiv8tor calls $0.25 813titan calls $0.25 Daradon folds Ronfar3 raises $1.25 to $1.50 sbf20 folds roland1952 folds djjeffypoo raises $2.25 to $3.75 YES. GO folds Motiv8tor folds 813titan folds Ronfar3 calls $2.25 |
The Flop: [Js 8c 2s]
djjeffypoo checks Ronfar3 checks |
The Turn: [Js 8c 2s | Qc]
djjeffypoo checks Ronfar3 bets $6.75 djjeffypoo raises $6.75 to $13.50 Ronfar3: raises $11.40 to $24.90 and is *ALL-IN* djjeffypoo calls $4.25 and is *ALL-IN* |
The River: [Js 8c 2s Qc | 6s]
The Showdown:
djjeffypoo shows Aq Ah Ronfar3 shows Qs Qh Ronfar3 won $41.60 from pot |
Hand Summary:
The Final Board: [Js 8c 2s Qc 6s] Ronfar3 showed Qs Qh and won $41.60 with three of a kind, Queens djjeffypoo (small blind) showed Ac Ah and lost with a pair of Aces |
Because our villian has only been raising 1% of his hands preflop over a fairly large sample, this narrows his range to basically AA/KK. Thus, when he makes such a small raise, I still have nearly exactly the implied odds I need to call for set value. The fact his range is so narrow also increases the +EV of this play, because he is likely stacking off with AA/KK every time when I hit my Q. Unfortunately, the Q didn't come on the flop, and I am ready to fold to his continuation bet. Except he decides to slowplay aces.
Here's a little general advice: never slowplay anything but complete monsters. Instead, he gives me a free card, I spike my Q (I would have folded to any flop bet), he triggers his turn "trap" after my bet and check-raises all in. I happily call, tell him "this is why you don't slowplay aces", and win the pot. Of course I wasn't sure if he was on AA or KK until a few seconds later, but his extremely narrow range of hands he raises with preflop made it trivial to play perfect poker against this particular villian. Him misplaying the hand terribly just further increased my edge.
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