I've decided I'm almost certainly going to dedicate May entirely to tournaments as some sort of challenge. Hopefully it will turn out to be an interesting experiment, though I fear I will end up doing my brains. I've heard that Pokerstars may change the times of the SCOOP events to make them more friendly to the non-US market (makes sense obv) so that would be great too and make my life a bit easier as I won't have to have a completely ridiculous sleeping schedule (the current schedule includes some events that start at 1am GMT, though I probably wouldn't have played these ones).
Yesterday I played a £300+30 event at the marina casino in Brighton where not a lot happened except me winning small pots and losing big ones. I probably played too tight considering how nitty my first table was. The 1/2 cash game was much more interesting where I managed to turn my £300 into about £1k in the first 5 hands. On hand 3 I raised to £20 after a couple of limpers with a random hand and got a bit of an angry stare down from a guy in the big blind before he and everyone else folded. Next hand I picked up A8s and after one limper I raised to £10 and then same guy now in SB 3-bet to £25, everyone else folded and I called. He ended up 3-barreling a 689r24 board, shoving on the river. I didn't buy it and called and he showed J4o. He said it was a terrible call. I disagreed.
This hand was pretty cool because it was almost entirely based on body language reads. The way the board ran out and his bet sizing was pretty indicative of an overpair, and I'm sure he is capable of playing aces like this. But based on the previous hand where he wasn't happy with me squeezing, plus his uncomfortable manner as he made his bets made me decide to call. I think players from an internet background don't study opponents enough in general, and it's something I am going to concentrate more on in the future. It makes a lot of sense because when playing live against new opponents, you won't play long enough to gain a big enough sample size to judge how they play different types of hands so you need all the extra information you can get. Also, in big decisions such as all-in river bluffs, the live players range is going to be incredibly polorised and therefore so is their internal emotions. It's unlikely this massive polorisation isn't going to manifest itself outwardly to some extent. Most live players also don't actually attempt to keep their body language consistent each time they act.
Anyway, hand 5 I ended up getting in a 3-way all-in with JJ vs 44 vs 6To on J646 (lol!) to get me up to about £1k. Unfortunately after that I pretty much lost every pot. The funniest was when a guy raised blind utg and and other guy in mp called and I made it £30 with AQs in the co. Utg guy called and mp guy folded and we saw flop of Q47tt. He checks, I bet £40 and he calls. Turn came To and it went check check. River came Ko and he snap bet £100, I snap called and he showed K6o. This guy was splashing around, enjoying himself and making the game fun (and more profitable) so I didn't mind losing to him.
I ended the cash game session with £80 profit, wins a win I suppose.
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