Your Cleveland.....Cavaliers!!!!! Is everyone as excited as I am for the playoffs in Cleveland? Cleveland has risen from the late season dead to show that they are still a team to beat in the East. I guarantee you ladies and gentlemen that Boston does not want to face us in the second round. In fact, they are probably legitimately scared. Why? The Cavaliers are running on all cylinders. They are in the playoff intensity mode and they have the best player in the league playing for them. The chemistry problems that we keep worrying about came together last night in game 2 when the Cavs made a statement game by mauling the Wizards at home. For those of you that have ratted on Mike Brown, you have to give him credit for making moves to put this team in position to win. Finally, we saw why Ben Wallace and Wally were brought into the mix. Ben Wallace fought right back with huge defensive plays early in game 2 to set the tone. When the Wizards started fouling hard, Ben was right there to lay someone out in his paint. Wally finally started nailing shots. When we have shooters out there, Gibson, Wally, and strong inside defense of Wallace and Varajao, we are very tough to beat. We are simply deeper than the Wizards and should beat this team in a max of 5 games.
For the Lebron fans out there, I read a great article about him yesterday that you should all check out. Lebron is hands down my favorite athlete in any sport, so my opinion might be biased.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/ussports/story/0,,2275032,00.html
Poker
Played the 1K WSOP circuit event at Caesar's yesterday. It had an excellent structure with 4k in starting chips, 25/25 starting blinds and hour levels. I was quickly up to 11k after the first two levels giving myself an excellent position early on. I won a big pot with JJ early and made a couple of moves to get my stack. The JJ hand was interesting. An UTG raiser to 150, another loose caller, another caller and I have the button with JJ. I could raise here, but I was convinced I could find a great spot by staying patient and keeping pots small preflop. I flat called. The flop came 10 9 6 two diamonds. All 4 players checked to me and I bet about 600 into the 750 pot. I received two callers. Turn was 3 of clubs. It checked to me again and I fired 1500 into the pot. The other loose caller who I just saw blow up with Q9 off suit preflop calls. River is 3 of spades. He quickly checks and I really thought I could get it all about 2500 of it. So I put it in and he quickly called and tapped the table. That was the extent of the big hands that occurred for the next 2-3 levels. I basically tried to stay active, but was never dealt a big pair or anything. I eventually called a shortstack's 2k all in when I had about 9500 in chips 200/400 blinds with 50 ante. It was an easy call even though I had the blinds, button and cutoff to get through. I won the 88 vs AJ with a flopped set. After that, there weren't many big confrontations, but with blinds rising quickly right before the 300/600 level change with about 10 minutes to go in the level I picked up 88 again UTG and raised to 1200. It folds to the BB who goes all in. At this point, there is 500 (antes)+200(bb)+1200(my raise)+ 5500 of his total. I have to call 4300 more into this 7400 pot. Another tough situation here even though I know lots of people at my table would quickly call here. I have about 11000 before the hand, so this represents about half my stack. I decided to call and looking at pokerstove giving him a range of 66+, AJ+ KQ, I have 45% equity, so having roughly 1.75 to 1 in pot odds, I don't think it's a bad call. What factors in here though is do I lose fold equity in the later rounds. Online you probably do, but in live tournaments fold equity is actually achieved with a lower M or BB count. I ended up losing the race when he showed AK KK7 flop 6 9.
I was kind of crushed because being so patient for so long you just have to hope to win the big race. I was down to a shoving stack and eventually settled on J8 off suit when it folded to me in the cutoff at 300/600 blinds and I had 4500 chips. I pushed was called by 10 10 Bink Jack and I'm still alive. Then I raised with 9 10 of clubs and was called by a looser older guy. Flop came Ac 8c 3h. In playing against this guy, he floated with hands and wasn't afraid to put people to the test. So I just decided to take the play away from him and pushed about 7500 into a 4800 ish pot. He folded and I was healthy again. Same guy called again when I raised in the cutoff with A5 off. Flop came AQ10 rainbow. I fired 3k into the pot and he shoved 13k in the middle. I had about 7k left and was put to the test here. If I have a dominated ace, I'm crushed and out. I still have 7k if I fold which is a little over 10 BB's. I decided to call after really thinking for about 3 minutes. My reasoning here was that QJ, 10J, KQ, Ax are in his range enough here. I know this guy would raise with AK or AQ b/c I saw it several times and any of those pairs over 10's. When really breaking this down, I looked at A10 being the killer hand and only one he had. AJ also and KJ was weird because I would have expected him to slowplay. I called and he showed A6, so we were basically even to chop. I protected some chips here, but made a decent call in my opinion. Then I was moved to another table shortly after losing a small pot to a shortstack with KJ of spades vs 77. At the new table UTG raises to 1800, the button reraises to 7k. I pinch an A, and I pinch another A. AA!!!! FINALLY THEY HAD ARRIVED!!! I'm all in for about 8500 I think. Other guy folds and the other guy has KK. SUPERCOOLER!!!! K54 flop. Good game Kevin. Out in about 46th of 237 players with 27 getting paid in a terrible way to go out. I played well today, but I need a little break to get refocused for the next round. I'm on a bad downswing online since my big tournament win and think I'm just not focused enough. In live tournaments though, I feel like I've been playing very well. Playing well doesn't always mean winning though in this game.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Why the game is really about luck
I've really come to appreciate luck and how is just affects every ounce of the game all day. Now, poker will always be a skill game, but it's really just all luck at times and it sucks.
I had a good result yesterday with a 4th place finish in the Full Tilt 163 for around 4500. The problem with these finishes is that for the second consecutive big final table, I ran extremely poorly (barring one hand).
I can't even get into PokerTracker to retrieve the hands right now for some reason and it's kind of irritating me.
I had KK as chip leader on BB with 11 players left, a short stack shoved for about 30k another guy called 30k of his 75k. I shove thinking he has to call, but the caller folds and the other guy shows Ad3d. He runs out the diamond flush on the river. Then we get to the final table. Right away, I raise the button and BB short stack moves in and I have to call with AJ and lose to QQ.
Then I pick up AK and lose to and AQ shove. After this hand, I am just steaming out of my mind. I have A10 and raise it up. Big blind call and flop comes Kc 10c x. He shoves his stack of about 80k into the approximately 40k pot. I made the call probably on a whirlwind of tilt and he showed K10. I puked and walked downstairs and I was about to quit the game and leave Vegas entirely when my roommate yells "Hey you clown you won the pot." I was refreshed and thought it could have been my break.
I then won an all in with AA vs 10 10 and I was again chipleader.
Then, I have AK on BB. A good internet player shoves for 89k with blinds 3k/6k 750 ante. I can't remember how many chips I had at this point but over 200k, so it was an easy call and he showed 88 and won the race.
Then we played around for a while and while table played incredibly weak tight except for two good players, I was the one getting reraised every hand.
When we were down to 4, I had to call the short stack with 10 8 and he showed 9 7. He binked a 7 on the river and I puked.
Then he won 99 vs KQ when he hit a K.
Then I lost with KJ vs A7 good game. Win a race please.
I ended up winning a 55 PL Omaha Hi/Lo tourney for about 1000 later in the night and had a good 4500 day after all the buy ins and small cash game loss.
Come today, I again felt like I played well throughout the day and just got knocked out before the money in 3 different bigger tourneys. Then I played a guy heads up NL 1/2. I was up about 2 buy ins on him ($400) when this hand comes up.
I have 33 and raise to $6. He reraises to $20 and at the time, I was really outplaying this guy throughout the hour we were playing. He just really didn't stand much of a chance over the long run. I had just given back about $200 to him and I wasn't happy about it. We both have around $450. I call with the 33. Flop comes A 10 3. He checks and he did this often when he just wanted to give up three-betting light. I checked behind. Turn was a 2. This time he checked again, so I was pretty sure he had nothing at this point so I bet $25 hoping to get some action. He raises to $80. At this point I'm positive he has a strong hand and really I'm just hoping for AK or A10 as he has tried to make big hero calls so I shove all of my chips in there and he calls shows 10 10 good game. So set over set in a heads up cash game happens just about never, but always seems to get me real good. I'm happy with the last couple of days though because I played about as bad as I have for a period of 3-4 days and was not happy about it.
I'll probably play some Saturday tourneys and watch some basketball tomorrow. I don't think I've won on a Saturday since I won the Absolute Poker tournament for $37,500 in June. I just never seem to get anything going on these days and play too many tournaments. The plan for tomorrow is going to be play at max 2 big ones (over $100) and then play the rest at smaller levels. When I have all my focus on one table, I really feel like I can compete with anyone in this game. When I have my focus on 9 tables, I'm just playing cards and missing a lot of details.
Congratulations to Lebron James for breaking the Cavaliers scoring record tonight in a statement game where we walked over Toronto. I would not want to be the team that has to play this guy in the playoffs. I'm already prepared to talk as much smack as I can to any Boston fan ready to go at me.
My bracket is pretty much bust as I had Vanderbilt going to the Elite 8 and they simply embarrassed me tonight along with their entire college. They got drilled by 13 seed Siena. The only thing Siena reminds me of is the crayon color I used to play with when I was 4 called burnt sienna. Seriously, I have no idea where this college is so I'm going to guess the first ten states and see if I can get it right.
1. Washington
2. Missouri
3. Kansas
4. California
5. Pennsylvania
6. Indiana
7. Arizona
8. New Mexico
9. Utah
10. Georgia
11. Alabama
12. New York
13. Connecticut
OK if I haven't guessed it yet, it will just be random. I can't wait to Google this and check it out.
WE HAVE A WINNER AT NUMBER 12 NEW YORK!!!!
Congratulations Vanderbilt for blowing it!!
I had a good result yesterday with a 4th place finish in the Full Tilt 163 for around 4500. The problem with these finishes is that for the second consecutive big final table, I ran extremely poorly (barring one hand).
I can't even get into PokerTracker to retrieve the hands right now for some reason and it's kind of irritating me.
I had KK as chip leader on BB with 11 players left, a short stack shoved for about 30k another guy called 30k of his 75k. I shove thinking he has to call, but the caller folds and the other guy shows Ad3d. He runs out the diamond flush on the river. Then we get to the final table. Right away, I raise the button and BB short stack moves in and I have to call with AJ and lose to QQ.
Then I pick up AK and lose to and AQ shove. After this hand, I am just steaming out of my mind. I have A10 and raise it up. Big blind call and flop comes Kc 10c x. He shoves his stack of about 80k into the approximately 40k pot. I made the call probably on a whirlwind of tilt and he showed K10. I puked and walked downstairs and I was about to quit the game and leave Vegas entirely when my roommate yells "Hey you clown you won the pot." I was refreshed and thought it could have been my break.
I then won an all in with AA vs 10 10 and I was again chipleader.
Then, I have AK on BB. A good internet player shoves for 89k with blinds 3k/6k 750 ante. I can't remember how many chips I had at this point but over 200k, so it was an easy call and he showed 88 and won the race.
Then we played around for a while and while table played incredibly weak tight except for two good players, I was the one getting reraised every hand.
When we were down to 4, I had to call the short stack with 10 8 and he showed 9 7. He binked a 7 on the river and I puked.
Then he won 99 vs KQ when he hit a K.
Then I lost with KJ vs A7 good game. Win a race please.
I ended up winning a 55 PL Omaha Hi/Lo tourney for about 1000 later in the night and had a good 4500 day after all the buy ins and small cash game loss.
Come today, I again felt like I played well throughout the day and just got knocked out before the money in 3 different bigger tourneys. Then I played a guy heads up NL 1/2. I was up about 2 buy ins on him ($400) when this hand comes up.
I have 33 and raise to $6. He reraises to $20 and at the time, I was really outplaying this guy throughout the hour we were playing. He just really didn't stand much of a chance over the long run. I had just given back about $200 to him and I wasn't happy about it. We both have around $450. I call with the 33. Flop comes A 10 3. He checks and he did this often when he just wanted to give up three-betting light. I checked behind. Turn was a 2. This time he checked again, so I was pretty sure he had nothing at this point so I bet $25 hoping to get some action. He raises to $80. At this point I'm positive he has a strong hand and really I'm just hoping for AK or A10 as he has tried to make big hero calls so I shove all of my chips in there and he calls shows 10 10 good game. So set over set in a heads up cash game happens just about never, but always seems to get me real good. I'm happy with the last couple of days though because I played about as bad as I have for a period of 3-4 days and was not happy about it.
I'll probably play some Saturday tourneys and watch some basketball tomorrow. I don't think I've won on a Saturday since I won the Absolute Poker tournament for $37,500 in June. I just never seem to get anything going on these days and play too many tournaments. The plan for tomorrow is going to be play at max 2 big ones (over $100) and then play the rest at smaller levels. When I have all my focus on one table, I really feel like I can compete with anyone in this game. When I have my focus on 9 tables, I'm just playing cards and missing a lot of details.
Congratulations to Lebron James for breaking the Cavaliers scoring record tonight in a statement game where we walked over Toronto. I would not want to be the team that has to play this guy in the playoffs. I'm already prepared to talk as much smack as I can to any Boston fan ready to go at me.
My bracket is pretty much bust as I had Vanderbilt going to the Elite 8 and they simply embarrassed me tonight along with their entire college. They got drilled by 13 seed Siena. The only thing Siena reminds me of is the crayon color I used to play with when I was 4 called burnt sienna. Seriously, I have no idea where this college is so I'm going to guess the first ten states and see if I can get it right.
1. Washington
2. Missouri
3. Kansas
4. California
5. Pennsylvania
6. Indiana
7. Arizona
8. New Mexico
9. Utah
10. Georgia
11. Alabama
12. New York
13. Connecticut
OK if I haven't guessed it yet, it will just be random. I can't wait to Google this and check it out.
WE HAVE A WINNER AT NUMBER 12 NEW YORK!!!!
Congratulations Vanderbilt for blowing it!!
Friday, February 22, 2008
Blockbuster
Wow. What a time to be flying in the air back to Las Vegas. When I got off the plane and heard the details of the trade, I have to admit that I was thrilled. Two main reasons:
1. We got rid of Larry Hughes, a player who I believed brought out of worst of the Cavaliers.
2. We got Ben Wallace, a playoff, championship tested defender that can rebound.
These two things are enough for me to approve of the trade. When I learned that we lost Donyell Marshall, a fairly large contract for something that can actually shoot in Wally S., I was even more thrilled. The only player I would have liked to see still in Cleveland is Gooden, but we essentially replaced him with Wallace/Smith, significantly improving our big man rotation. Newble was a great role player and I wouldn't be surprised to see him back here in the future, but will I miss him? No, this guy barely played prior to the injuries we had this season. Shannon Brown and Cedric Simmons never played either. Essentially, we just dumped junk for a fresh start. I understand that we did take on a lot of salaries, but we did lose Hughes in that same thing and from what I understand, Wallace's contract matches his. Wally is a big salary jump. What I love is we somehow convinced them to just throw in a second round draft pick. Two notable Cavs second round draft picks are Carlos Boozer and Daniel Gibson.
I believe that anyone that says Hughes had any value to this team is either 1. blind or 2. stupid. This guy threw up wild shots and because he started making a few on them in the last two weeks people suddenly went to his defense. HE MISSED A 3 FOOT JUMPER FOR THE WIN IN THE PLAYOFFS! When the Cavs get healthy with Sasha, Gibson, and Varajao, we will be the deepest team in the East if not the entire NBA. Anyone calling this trade just "a lateral trade" is an ignorant sports columnist that should be fired immediately and never invited back to ESPN. One of my favorite sites dedicated to Larry Hughes says it best
That being said look for the next 10 games to be tough and the Cavs to maybe win 3 of them. Chemistry isn't something easy to come buy and this move is as risky as they get. The X factor that no one realizes though is how much better Lebron makes everyone around him. We had a bunch of bums that looked average or maybe even good because of Lebron. Now that we have some average talent, these players will start looking a whole lot better. On the same note, Ben Wallace probably couldn't be happier going from the confused Bulls to a legitimate championship contender.
Look at it this way. Our team was obviously not good enough to win the championship. We had to do something. This trade does make our team better, but will it be enough? We'll find out in the coming weeks.
I didn't even mention Delonte West, who provides a player at the point guard that we could use.
LOST (spoilers involved)
LOST was a standard episode last night. We needed to know how Kate got off of her charges to let the flash forward plot move forward. On top of that, we see that she has a child, but it's actually Claire's baby further raising questions about what happened. My new long term prediction is that we will see how this all went down with the Oceanic Six this season. Next season will be more of an explanation of the island and the events after the island, while the final season will be the return to the island and the rescue of the people left behind. I don't have much to say, but to sit back and enjoy this show. Predictions are almost never right. I would like to recant my statement to certain friends about how long I could hold a live grenade in my mouth. I believe I could do this for legitimately 4 hours and not 5 days or infinity as I once predicted.
Survivor
This was the best episode of the year. I think the Favorites made a big mistake kicking out Yau-Man and that Ozzy, as always was right. Eliza should have been booted if it wasn't Parvati. You need to strengthen your tribe and win all challenges, so you can go into the merge and pick off people from the other tribe with numbers. I really do like Jon Penner though and hope he weasels his way deep again. He's always entertaining. I don't even know how the Fans are winning. They are so quirky, odd and bad it's funny.
Ty, I tried to do a lot of research about the dunk contest, but it's a tough question and so I just decided to pick the 5 I remembered the most.
5. Dee Brown arm over the face dunk. Extremely creative at the time and probably tough.
4. Spud Webb one bounce dunk. He's 5 foot 7. Give this little man some credit and I just liked his name when I was little.
3. Foul line dunk by all those who tried it. Probably one of the toughest difficulty ever.
2. Vince Carter--anything this guy did that one dunk contest arm in basket, two handed almost free throw jam, behind the backboard, under the leg.
1. Jason Richardson off the backboard under the leg. This is the toughest dunk ever made.
David T. wrote "After reading your recent article on Pocketfives I was left with some questions regarding your hand analysis: Did you chart the hand rankings based on chip stack and place in mtt? While playing short-stacked frequently while deep in mtts, are you more looking to creep up in the $ or move into a position with a stack that would allow you to make more moves? How has your early game changed since your hand analysis and aggressiveness?"
First off, I want to say thanks for a poker related question because I love answering these and keep them coming.
When I charted my hands, I did it just based solely on the hand, but I took notes next to each one so I had a point of reference. I think you can learn more based on chip stack and place, but for this purpose, I just wanted to look at specific hands.
The short stack question is a good one because I often find myself short stacked in tournaments and I don't really mind being there. The key when playing short stack poker is to look for spots where you won't get called. Essentially, when short stacked, it is sometimes better to look for a spot where you won't get called opposed to one where it is absolutely certain. For example, if someone raises in early position and you look at 77, I prefer folding here and looking for a spot where I have fold equity and am the first one to open the pot. So waiting for a 9 10 off suit is something I would almost rather do here because it gives me a chance to pick up chips without getting called. Obviously some hands are so strong that you have to go with them. 99+ or AQ are probably those hands or when you have a pretty solid hand in the blinds and a late position raiser comes in where you are obviously beating his range of hands.
My early game has changed in the following ways. I just try to be more careful with marginal hands and I realize that passing up a marginal situation with some of the hands I charted is not a bad play. Even if I'm maybe 55%, it's not worth it when I am almost guaranteed of finding a better spot later on. I've really reevaluated situations where I'm raised post-flop as well. I think I've been less likely to move my chips in situations where I may be ahead, but I'm only getting called by a hand that's crushing me. This may seem like simple ideas, but places where you have top pair weak kicker and someone raises you early on. I'm more apt to try to read their later street bets than move all my chips in. This may be a loss of aggressiveness in these situations, but I think it has improved my game.
1. We got rid of Larry Hughes, a player who I believed brought out of worst of the Cavaliers.
2. We got Ben Wallace, a playoff, championship tested defender that can rebound.
These two things are enough for me to approve of the trade. When I learned that we lost Donyell Marshall, a fairly large contract for something that can actually shoot in Wally S., I was even more thrilled. The only player I would have liked to see still in Cleveland is Gooden, but we essentially replaced him with Wallace/Smith, significantly improving our big man rotation. Newble was a great role player and I wouldn't be surprised to see him back here in the future, but will I miss him? No, this guy barely played prior to the injuries we had this season. Shannon Brown and Cedric Simmons never played either. Essentially, we just dumped junk for a fresh start. I understand that we did take on a lot of salaries, but we did lose Hughes in that same thing and from what I understand, Wallace's contract matches his. Wally is a big salary jump. What I love is we somehow convinced them to just throw in a second round draft pick. Two notable Cavs second round draft picks are Carlos Boozer and Daniel Gibson.
I believe that anyone that says Hughes had any value to this team is either 1. blind or 2. stupid. This guy threw up wild shots and because he started making a few on them in the last two weeks people suddenly went to his defense. HE MISSED A 3 FOOT JUMPER FOR THE WIN IN THE PLAYOFFS! When the Cavs get healthy with Sasha, Gibson, and Varajao, we will be the deepest team in the East if not the entire NBA. Anyone calling this trade just "a lateral trade" is an ignorant sports columnist that should be fired immediately and never invited back to ESPN. One of my favorite sites dedicated to Larry Hughes says it best
That being said look for the next 10 games to be tough and the Cavs to maybe win 3 of them. Chemistry isn't something easy to come buy and this move is as risky as they get. The X factor that no one realizes though is how much better Lebron makes everyone around him. We had a bunch of bums that looked average or maybe even good because of Lebron. Now that we have some average talent, these players will start looking a whole lot better. On the same note, Ben Wallace probably couldn't be happier going from the confused Bulls to a legitimate championship contender.
Look at it this way. Our team was obviously not good enough to win the championship. We had to do something. This trade does make our team better, but will it be enough? We'll find out in the coming weeks.
I didn't even mention Delonte West, who provides a player at the point guard that we could use.
LOST (spoilers involved)
LOST was a standard episode last night. We needed to know how Kate got off of her charges to let the flash forward plot move forward. On top of that, we see that she has a child, but it's actually Claire's baby further raising questions about what happened. My new long term prediction is that we will see how this all went down with the Oceanic Six this season. Next season will be more of an explanation of the island and the events after the island, while the final season will be the return to the island and the rescue of the people left behind. I don't have much to say, but to sit back and enjoy this show. Predictions are almost never right. I would like to recant my statement to certain friends about how long I could hold a live grenade in my mouth. I believe I could do this for legitimately 4 hours and not 5 days or infinity as I once predicted.
Survivor
This was the best episode of the year. I think the Favorites made a big mistake kicking out Yau-Man and that Ozzy, as always was right. Eliza should have been booted if it wasn't Parvati. You need to strengthen your tribe and win all challenges, so you can go into the merge and pick off people from the other tribe with numbers. I really do like Jon Penner though and hope he weasels his way deep again. He's always entertaining. I don't even know how the Fans are winning. They are so quirky, odd and bad it's funny.
Ty, I tried to do a lot of research about the dunk contest, but it's a tough question and so I just decided to pick the 5 I remembered the most.
5. Dee Brown arm over the face dunk. Extremely creative at the time and probably tough.
4. Spud Webb one bounce dunk. He's 5 foot 7. Give this little man some credit and I just liked his name when I was little.
3. Foul line dunk by all those who tried it. Probably one of the toughest difficulty ever.
2. Vince Carter--anything this guy did that one dunk contest arm in basket, two handed almost free throw jam, behind the backboard, under the leg.
1. Jason Richardson off the backboard under the leg. This is the toughest dunk ever made.
David T. wrote "After reading your recent article on Pocketfives I was left with some questions regarding your hand analysis: Did you chart the hand rankings based on chip stack and place in mtt? While playing short-stacked frequently while deep in mtts, are you more looking to creep up in the $ or move into a position with a stack that would allow you to make more moves? How has your early game changed since your hand analysis and aggressiveness?"
First off, I want to say thanks for a poker related question because I love answering these and keep them coming.
When I charted my hands, I did it just based solely on the hand, but I took notes next to each one so I had a point of reference. I think you can learn more based on chip stack and place, but for this purpose, I just wanted to look at specific hands.
The short stack question is a good one because I often find myself short stacked in tournaments and I don't really mind being there. The key when playing short stack poker is to look for spots where you won't get called. Essentially, when short stacked, it is sometimes better to look for a spot where you won't get called opposed to one where it is absolutely certain. For example, if someone raises in early position and you look at 77, I prefer folding here and looking for a spot where I have fold equity and am the first one to open the pot. So waiting for a 9 10 off suit is something I would almost rather do here because it gives me a chance to pick up chips without getting called. Obviously some hands are so strong that you have to go with them. 99+ or AQ are probably those hands or when you have a pretty solid hand in the blinds and a late position raiser comes in where you are obviously beating his range of hands.
My early game has changed in the following ways. I just try to be more careful with marginal hands and I realize that passing up a marginal situation with some of the hands I charted is not a bad play. Even if I'm maybe 55%, it's not worth it when I am almost guaranteed of finding a better spot later on. I've really reevaluated situations where I'm raised post-flop as well. I think I've been less likely to move my chips in situations where I may be ahead, but I'm only getting called by a hand that's crushing me. This may seem like simple ideas, but places where you have top pair weak kicker and someone raises you early on. I'm more apt to try to read their later street bets than move all my chips in. This may be a loss of aggressiveness in these situations, but I think it has improved my game.
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