Study Week

Hey, I'm not intending to play tonight; I just feel too tired and would tilt/spew. I may not play tomorrow either as I have Valentines stuff to do. However, I'm three thousand hands up on my weekly target and I can play 3k or so on Saturday.

Following this week I have a week off and amongst other things I intend to do a lot of work on my poker game. There are a few recent Cardrunners videos that I think will help me to achieve this. I'll try and break the day into a couple of hours of study and follow it with a couple of hours (minimum) of play. I believe there is tons of room in my game to get better. In particular there are loads of betting lines that I use as standard where I think that they are not necessarily optimal. A big example I can think of is blind defence where I check call the flop after hitting << something >> and then check the turn. With my value hands in a spot where a lot of opponents will check back a lot of their range it is much better to lead (or donk). This is a line that I saw Markuis use in Heads-Up poker last year and I've no idea why I have not utilised it more. The kind of players that will raise a turn lead here are likely to be a very small minority and the few that are capable of bluff raising here I should have tagged as tough reg already. But this is just one example of a spot that I think I could improve my expectation in. I'm thoroughly looking forward to the next part of my journey. GL!