Long time no blog! Yeah ive been very busy/lazy. But I am sitting here waiting for action at 1am and figured what better to do than do a SHORT update. A LOT has happened in the last few months that i have been awol and i will try to cover it as best as i can, as well as cover something I have been thinking about in light of the upcoming NPC.
Last few months in poker:
- have been an epic struggle. I don't really want to go into this too much but lets just say it hasn't been pretty at all. I don't want to go on about running bad etc etc because no one wants to hear about that, so let's just leave it at things have been rough. Results from December onwards are below.
On Redback
On FTP
As you can see they're very disappointing and im really hoping things turn around soon.
In Life:
Real life has been great. As has been mentioned in previous posts we were expecting a baby... He arrived on February 10th 2010, 8lb 8oz, named Madden. He has certainly been a handful but we are really loving every minute of it. Its amazing how time flies by without you realising and we're seeing changes in him every day. I find myself watching him just doing nothing and being utterly consumed/fascinated by it, its quite a strange feeling. Oh and he actually is cute ;)
Everyone thinks their own kids are quite, its just a given. We said all along that if this kid is ugly we will know it :p We think he's adorable (objectively obv;) ) But you can decide for yourself. Dont tell me if u think hes ugly!
Anyways...
I have been playing a few live ANZPT qualifiers of late, partially to get back into playing live again with the NPC coming up. To be honest im not sure yet whether im going to have another crack at the player of the year at NPC this year as i do have a one month old baby at home... I guess i will just see how i start the series and take it from there.
One thing i have found very interesting in the tournaments i have played has come when eff stacks begin to get shallower. I have had absolutely no trouble getting my stack right up, however, when it has come to playing with 25BBs or less i have found myself in some difficult spots. And i don;t mean difficult spots as in people are crushing me or anything, its more an internal battle between what i know should be correct and what is actually correct situationally.
People in these types of live games have no idea about stack sizes and fold equity,nor do they understand how to assign handranges. This is in no way meant in a derogatory manner, most of them will freely admit this. But due to this, things have to change in our games to adjust properly to it. Im still yet to be able to put my finger on the precise adjustments i need to make to people's absurdly tight handranges for both jamming and folding shallow stacks.
One thing i am considering is the possibility of being able to 3x/fold with like 10-15BBs (something i would NEVER do online). Generally speaking i have just been open jamming these stacks which is pretty std in my eyes. However, when people are calling so so tight regardless of whether i am jamming or 3x it is likely going to be mroe profitable for me to just open 3x at these stacks (or potentially 2.7x). Thing is, people are very few and far between that are capable of 3bet jamming anything other than nut hands, so dopting a strategy where i can actually open with the same FE but save an extra 7BBs or so when i get jammed on is obviously very enticing. Its just very hard for me to get this into my mind because i feel so retarded open/folding at them stacks. Hopefully i can keep my discipline and not get too antsy during the NPC and do anything out of line which i have a habit of doing in MTT's in general.
I am probably too loose in general and it is something i certainly need to reign in if i want to do well in the NPC this year. When stacks are deep i feel i have a massive edge on these guys so just need to hang in there when pus comes to shove and exploit the tendancies that a lot of these guys have!
Anyways, this got longer than i wanted. Will try to blog more frequently from now on!!!
GL in your games!
Matt
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