$5/$10 Live Session on Ignition
Posted by Brad Wilson
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Can you please show a graph of your wininings from 2017?
Hey man, I cannot. Most of my volume on the year has come on an untracked site and when I have played on Ignition I haven't consistently downloaded my hands.
I have said it before many times but, for me personally, I find that I put in more volume and function better as a human being when I do not obsess over my database. Obviously if I were playing on any other site that isn't anonymous like Ignition then I would have no choice, as historical data on specific villains can be massively +ev.
I made this decision a couple of years ago, actually, when I switched to a Mac where HEM was not compatible. Having obsessed over my database for the previous decade, having a few months where I could simply play cards and not worry my red line was an amazing reprieve and something I have found to be +ev overall in my life.
For the record, I do track all of my results in a spreadsheet because this is something that should continually be measured. As for studying ... whenever I play a hand I am curious or unsure about, I will screenshot the hand number and look it up when the results become available in the next couple of days. I will also call my professional poker player friends and post the hand in my Skype study group for discussion.
If I notice or sense a change in my reg population for whatever reason, I will run PIO to get a better handle as to what strategic adjustments I need to be making.
I am curiuous about the betsizes you used in the two big pots where u got called down, to me your sizeing feels very akward.
With 54s, bet a little bit bigger flop for a decent turnjam size or bet smaller on the turn aswell to have a better size for the river must be much better? And your T8o riversize is also really weird, u size it up for a river potjam then bet like 2/3 and leave you with nothing, guess you would just want to be polarized here and jam with straights and full houses and bluffs aswell to put him in a hard spot. His 99s blocks your nut straights and your size is really akward imo so not to surprised about his call.
Agree that the sizing with the T8o seems fishy. Also, you would never really want to bet a value hand with this sizing because you allow villain to get off cheaper when you have him beat and can never fold to a shove given the pot size with value. Therefore, you only get all in when you are behind.
JustGotStacked The point of the small flop bet was to fold out some of his KQ and suited connectors ... I don't think whether I size large or small we will fold out his pocket pairs.
The turn is weird because I made a pair and it put up 3 to a flush. My pair has pretty much 0% SD equity, so I decided to try to fold out his hands that didn't have a diamond in them.
On the river I was getting a good price to bluff and don't really have tons of bluffs so I took a shot.
kobeizdabest This is a good point about the river sizing with T8o.
In real time I imagined that betting 4xx would realize the same fold equity as shoving, so I opted to go for the cheaper bluff sizing. If he folds 99/TT to a shove then obviously it's way superior.
As you said, we let him off the hook with his overpairs when we bet smaller and allow him to play perfectly with his boats ... so I agree with you, we should only be shoving this river.
Lol ...I have to laugh at myself here as I am playing 5NL and 10NL on the same network and my HUD is DECKED OUT lol. Here's the author, Brad Wilson, 4 tabling nosebleeds and not even using a HUD.
Mr. Wilson, do you have a specific reason for not using one? Is it just on Ignition that you don't? I use PT4 and DriveHUD w/ Player XRay.
Hey man, don't feel bad! When I made this video Ignition was having some software difficulties and the HUDs weren't working. Typically I use the standard HEI HUD that shows me very basic information.
With that being said, on Ignition I think your HUD can be a useful guide that automates information for you rather quickly but should not be super heavily leaned upon ... especially at the stakes that you're playing.
At your stakes, your focus should mainly be on improving your thought processes and decision making. You can maybe even experiment some and take some questionable lines that you're unsure of so that you can later analyze them and grow as a player.
I know this is a long-winded answer but focus solely on your growth at this stage of the game ... invest in loss so that you grow instead of trying to squeeze the EV juice-box as hard as you can with every decision that you make, as the mistakes aren't nearly as costly as they are when you move up.
You know...it's funny that you bring up experimentation and not being afraid of dropping BI's right now. This is the point I'm at. My mental game is better than ever and quite solid overall for a micros player. Legitimately. My bankroll is more than sufficient for these stakes. My skill level and understanding of the cash game is better than ever. There's no reason to not be experimenting or afraid to make a mistake worth a stack right now. Of course, this doesn't mean don't play extremely thoughtfully and strategically, it means to just play the game, put in a ton of volume, and see what works and what doesn't. We can't play perfect poker so a lot of the time striving to is -EV. At least in what I've experienced through my experimentation thus far :)
Played nothing but 10NL last night after posting and had an absolute blast. Was very profitable, as well. I've been bouncing back and forth between anonymous cash tables and regular tables (Ignition and then the other US facing networks) and it's made the reg tables much more profitable since I can use information based off of a large sample size to exploit villain.
I've been here studying on RIO for the last few hours and will be returning to the same cash games tonight.
get em man! A very underrated aspect of poker is, you know, actually having fun!
4NL and the last 1100 hands are 10NL, just from the last couple of days. I've been studying here at RIO, as well as all of Adam Jones' material on PS.com.
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