Trying to post some hands

Ok so I just got done with about a 2 hour session, and I played some big pots pretty horribly. I don't really know why, but I didn't have the proper mindset when playing. When I sit down at the tables I really want to be trying not too lose rather than trying to win. I am already over aggro and try to win too many pots, so for me to play my best I need to be trying not too lose.

When I am playing not too lose I am still playing very aggressively in almost every pot that I enter, the only seemingly difference to me is that I get am able to get away from the mediocre situations a lot easier. When I am at a spot that is neutral EV, or very close to it, I will be more inclined to muck without putting too much money in the pot when I am playing not to lose. However, when I am playing to try and win as much money as possible I feel that I need to embrace these spots and try and push around the weak-passives at the full ring tables.

The way that this can be most effective is by picking my spots as carefully as possible. Be looking for reasons not to enter a pot, and if I just can't find any reasons not to make a play, then go ahead and do it. Rather than looking for every possible reason to make a play, and only not making a play if I can't find any reasons to do so.

So today I was playing in the wrong mindset, and I was looking for every spot possible to make a move, and not trying to play a low EV style of poker.

So here goes, really hope it works because every other time I have tried to post a hand in my blog i have failed miserably, so I am basically going to upload the HH to weaktight.com and then post a link to each hand, that seems to be the way to do it.

http://weaktight.com/950226
So in this hand I decided just to flat the shove to try and entice some other players to come along with hands that I had absolutly crushed, because there were some really bad players at this table, the players in the blinds both had over 40% VPIP.

Now a player playing 40/20/1.4 with a 3bet of 20% decides to 3bet after we get another caller, and at this point I could have shoved, but since I had position I decided to just flat it and then stick it in on any flop.

So I probably butchered this hand, but that will be a common theme in this blog post.

http://weaktight.com/950239
KK against breekijzer

So he was playing 42/12/.8 with a 3bet of 10%. So when I 4bet him OOP to 32BB's I don't think I can get away from my hand on many flops and I really don't think I can get away from it here, but I go ahead and check anyways, cause I don't feel that a bet is necessary.

So after the flop I feel that this player is way to passive to check it too him again, however I do think if I just ship it in he will never fold TT-QQ, and if he has an A then I think that is a much smaller part of his range.

So after looking at it I really like how I played that hand, but I would def like some feedback

So these next two hands are what I was talking about before when I said I am trying to hard to win money. I hate giving up pots to these weak players, and I usually have to try way too hard to win a hand, when I could easily muck and find a MUCH better, and less stressful spot.

http://weaktight.com/950231
JohnnnyD was playing 40/10/1, and the btn opener had a very high steal % so I thought this would be a great spot to put on a sqeeze, and I was basically expecting the SB to call, and that was going to be a very profitable spot for me in position.

So basically I learned a huge lesson on the flop and will really take something from this hand. Basically I think I can make a really good rule of thumb, that if a passive player donks in a 3bet pot, he is almost never looking to get away from his hand. I just need to fold to that bet and save myself all kinds of stress and money.

Then on the turn I just thought that was too perfect of a card to check behind, when in all reality he was probably never folding at that point.

So basically I love my preflop squeeze, but the 90 or so BB's that I lost after that was a complete spew.

http://weaktight.com/950237

Then this hand was a against a players who was 3betting 8% w a 3 a.f. over 500 hands or so. Now when players are 3betting light I think it is usually a good idea to play pocket pairs strong, but this was def not one of those spots.

I don't really mind the call in position here, just because I am so aggro in late position and players like this start playing back at me.
And then once I call pre I don't think I can fold this flop, but where things turned disaterous was on the turn.
I think he basically checks every hand that I have beat on the turn, so when he double barrels in a 3bet pot, I can be assured that he has a pocket pair higher then mine 95% of the time. So there is no point in trying to pick of when he is bluffing, I have to muck here basically 100% of the time.

So despite all of that bad play I still was up 3 BI's over 1K hands in a two hour session today which is obv. pretty ridiculous. Also some other good news, after that I found out of to view my daily results w/out having to check results, so I am going to remain disciplined and only play for my hourly rate, and try not to check my results until the end of this month.