Thanks
hehe, not sure how much could be learnt from this blog, I'm more a poster of statistic anomalies I think
hopefully I'm wrong though
Yesterday was yet another great day
when will this good run end... but I only managed 4k hands, this time I really don't have an excuse...

Weird hand that made me kinda confused, and I dont really understand UTGs play on the flop, sure he has a draw here, but not very strong and the A isnt very reliable as an out. I put him on an 78/overpair/set/A6 here, so I was kinda surprised when I saw his hand. A7 never made sense, so when he raised the river I was like
hes raising A6 here? and then I went "aha, ofcourse, he slowed 78" which makes sense cause raising might get us both to fold at this time. But I called down cause, well, people do the strangest things with a strong Ax. Micros are like the deep sea fishes, you see all kinds of crazy down there!
PokerStars - $0.25/$0.50 (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3
UTG: $20.00
BTN: $8.21
SB: $21.88
Hero (BB): $8.53
SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.25
Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero has 5♦ 6♦
UTG raises to $0.50, BTN raises to $0.75, fold, Hero calls $0.50, UTG calls $0.25
Flop: ($2.35, 3 players) 6♠ 3♣ 5♥
Hero checks, UTG checks, BTN bets $0.25, Hero raises to $0.50, UTG raises to $0.75, BTN calls $0.50, Hero raises to $1.00, UTG calls $0.25, BTN calls $0.25
Turn: ($5.35, 3 players) 4♦
Hero bets $0.50, UTG calls $0.50, BTN calls $0.50
River: ($6.85, 3 players) A♣
Hero bets $0.50, UTG raises to $1.00, fold, Hero calls $0.50
UTG shows 7♣ A♥ (Straight, Seven High) (Pre 58%, Flop 20%, Turn 88%)
Hero mucks 5♦ 6♦ (Two Pair, Sixes and Fives) (Pre 42%, Flop 80%, Turn 13%)
UTG wins $8.69
I ususally call a hand like this in BB. I've heard people say its to loose, and 89s+ and what not, but theyre actually almost the same EV-wise, and I think 56 runs in to trouble less often than say 9Ts. Its easy to let go of but has great potential when it hits. Ide rather play this one than a weak Axo, Kxo. And I never cap in this spot so my range is fairly wide here. But I have given up on people actually noticing anything. Its kinda annoying, you spend so much time trying to improve youre game and theyre all like
but I know it will come in handy later on, I hope.
But I think I've become lazy, these last weeks, and I dont bother to adapt my game to players but more to groups of players sorta. Which I know is some sort of preemptive exploitation. But I'm gonna say its ok at micros, its not optimal, but its still ok. Most players play alike, you kinda just have to put them in folders for different types of players, and preemptive or not, if 80% of the population from a certain folder plays in a certain way, and you adapt it to all 100% then youre still ahead most of the time. And the common mistakes made by regs at lower stakes are usually the same by everyone for every group of players, and for the odd plays you just take a note. For instance, a very general read that applies to most "tag-players" on pokerstars 0.25/0.50 is that they dont value bet the river wide enough, and they dont bluff the river enough
But my turn cbet is way low, I dont know why that is, havnt done it on purpouse, its like 67% over 90k hands now... almost the same as my river cbet.