Table selection

One of the most important things before playing a sessions is your table selection. The higher you play the more important it becomes. Personally I think you can do without it on NL25 and maybe NL50, but when starting on NL100 you have to do it, because it influences your winrate a lot.

I'm using a program to select my tables I want to play. It is called Sixth sense (no its not free) and the program scans all the tables of the limits I select.
It then rates the table based on the players that are at the table. To rate the players it uses your Pokertracker database, so you have to have a large database to make it work.

So I then sit down at the 6 tables were there are bad players (high VPIP is the key here). Its a very easy process which may take 5 minutes but in the end it really pays off.

Then my last 2 days of playing.....I played a ton of hands and finally I'm back in the green again. It wasn't to easy though, but in the last 2,000 hands I won almost $1500! The variance is still amazing and I also had some extreme bad luck against very bad players.



Hands played in september 23,785
Won in cash games $788
received from VIP bonus $150
won in Tourney $106
BR beginning of september: $11,540
Current BR : $12,584

Some big hands from the last sessions:

Before reading the below hand I must say that bkman is one of the biggest donks at party. As long as you let him bet he will bluff with every possible draw, middle pair hand and so on....

***** Hand History for Game 5174376497 *****
$200 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 15, 02:21:20 ET 2006
Table Monster #1290322 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: bkman ( $268.75 )
Seat 6: atcAce ( $430.05 )
Seat 2: PayStation4 ( $206.50 )
Seat 1: omgbentley_7 ( $0 )
Seat 5: PollockV ( $44 )
Seat 3: poopmastiff ( $200 )
PollockV posts small blind [$1].
atcAce posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards
**Dealt to PayStation4 [ Jc Ah ]
PayStation4 raises [$6].
bkman calls [$6].
PollockV calls [$5].
atcAce folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ As, 9d, 3s ]
PollockV checks.
PayStation4 bets [$14].
bkman raises [$30].
PollockV folds.
PayStation4 calls [$16].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
PayStation4 checks.
bkman bets [$100].
PayStation4 is all-In.bkman calls [$70.50].
** Dealing River ** [ 2s ]
bkman shows [ 4s, 6s ] a flush, ace high.
PayStation4 doesn't show [ Jc, Ah ] a pair of aces.The time at which hand ended:Sep 15 2006 02:22 ET
bkman wins $418.50 from the main pot with a flush, ace high.

A few hands later against the same player...(this time he has some kind of a hand though)

***** Hand History for Game 5174502755 *****$200
NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 15, 02:55:09 ET 2006
Table Monster #1290322 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: bkman ( $194 )
Seat 2: PayStation4 ( $248.80 )
Seat 1: omgbentley_7 ( $466.35 )
Seat 3: poopmastiff ( $222.40 )
Seat 6: whoaak2 ( $146.43 )
Seat 5: PollockV ( $95.50 )
bkman posts small blind [$1].
PollockV posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards
**Dealt to PayStation4 [ Td Th ]
whoaak2 folds.
omgbentley_7 folds.
PayStation4 raises [$7].
poopmastiff folds.
bkman raises [$11].
PollockV folds.
PayStation4 calls [$5].
** Dealing Flop **
[ Tc, 2s, Ac ]
bkman bets [$50].
PayStation4 calls [$50].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8h ]
bkman is all-In.
PayStation4 calls [$132].
** Dealing River ** [ Qd ]
bkman shows [ Ad, Qc ] two pairs, aces and queens.
PayStation4 shows [ Td, Th ] three of a kind, tens.
The time at which hand ended:Sep 15 2006 02:56
ETPayStation4 wins $386.50 from the main pot with three of a kind, tens.

A few hand later against 2 good players. I decide not to raise the flop, don't know exactly why (normally I do), but I wanted to vary my play. Poops call scared me as he must have been on a draw. Luckily the turn is a non club one and I push. After the hand Poop told he had a straighflush draw with Tc9c.

***** Hand History for Game 5174637884 *****$200
NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, September 15, 03:37:41 ET 2006
Table Monster #1290322 (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: PayStation4 ( $521.60 )
Seat 1: omgbentley_7 ( $193.30 )
Seat 3: poopmastiff ( $819.60 )
Seat 5: mKU7TR4 ( $239.28 )
Seat 4: andysila1 ( $56.90 )
Seat 6: FckTheOdds ( $187.60 )
andysila1 posts small blind [$1].
mKU7TR4 posts big blind [$2].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to PayStation4 [ 8c 8h ]
FckTheOdds raises [$8].
omgbentley_7 folds.
>You have options at Monster #1289690 (No DP) Table!.
PayStation4 calls [$8].
poopmastiff calls [$8].
andysila1 folds.
mKU7TR4 folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8d, 5c, 3c ]
FckTheOdds bets [$22].
PayStation4 calls [$22].
poopmastiff calls [$22].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 7h ]
FckTheOdds bets [$69].
PayStation4 raises [$200].
poopmastiff folds.
FckTheOdds is all-In.
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
PayStation4 shows [ 8c, 8h ] three of a kind, eights.
FckTheOdds doesn't show [ 7s, 8s ] two pairs, eights and sevens.
PayStation4 wins $42.40 from side pot #1 with three of a kind, eights.
PayStation4 wins $404.70 from the main pot with three of a kind, eights