Hello, first I'd like to thanks anyone in advance for their help.
I've played so many hands of poker in the last week and a half and no matter what I do I can't seem to find a way to profitably bring my red line up while keeping my blue line steady.
I am currently 16 tabling at FTP on NL2.
Here is my graph for the last 9 days:
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And here is the just the last 15000 hands:
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So essentially the downswing at the end where I lost $42 is primarily due to my horrendous non-SD winnings.
The reasons why my non-SD winnings are so low are:
1) Allowing blinds to be stolen.
I have a very difficult time defending my blinds on the micros as I find the value of nearly any hand on them to be very low. This is mainly due to being out of position causing me to even fold AQo sometimes, especially to a small raise from MP that has a donk caller in late. Or even blind steals from the CO or BTN from donks. I absolutely hate betting post flop when I hit into into these guys. I do squeeze in these situations sometimes but I find that this usually just leads to a larger pot on the flop and nobody folding.
2) Turning passive in any position post flop when my hand misses.
If I perform a squeeze play (usually a 3-bet of 3x the 2-bet) and completely miss the flop I turn the hand into a check/fold. I have a very difficult time finding value in these hands as I have seen donks with mid-pair think they have enough value to call me all the way down to the river. This is nice when I turn over my absolutely dominating hand after an all in on the river but sucks for getting value from missed flops.
I have tried taking advantage of flops with scare cards which can work after a squeeze preflop from oop, but when they call, I'm pretty much in the dark about their hand and have to check the turn. From in position without a squeeze pre-flop this frequently does not work as the check raise is an often used play here and I have yet to find a way to figure out which ones are bluffs and which ones mean strength. With a squeeze play preflop the odds of them folding are about even to a 3/4 pot size bet, often they are chasing when they call though, so I guess I should raise higher? As well checking a flop in position is such a sign of weakness on these limits that not betting takes away all fold equity on the turn so a check on the flop to avoid a check/raise on a missed hand often induces a large bluff on the turn whether they have anything or not but I do this too so I guess I can't blame them.
Often donks are chasing a straight or a flush on the flop and will call nearly any any level of pressure to the river (turn folds are not very common) and will nearly always turn their hand into a pot sized bluff on the river with any pair though they often bet really small with a suckout (2pair on river or better). So unless I spiked top pair or better by the river there is no consistent value in these situations.
I guess essentially my question is this, for anyone who has conquered this limit are there any value situations that I am missing? Are there situations where it is consistently profitable to get a donk off their hand? Am I missing any easily exploitable value?
