Sessions Hands

Two hand played in an past session. On the first hand I have the preflop nuts, opponent is a calling station, the kind of player who will call expensive bets with a draw. In the long run he loses money but this time he did catch his flush on the river: I suspected he had the flush but I called his big bet because I saw him bluffing in as old hand, I thought he was bluffing again. On the flop I have 91% of equity to win this hand, on the turn my equity decreases to 84%, still a big favourite.
Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players - View hand 1769256
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MP1: $2.08
MP2: $4.93
CO: $7.70
Hero (BTN): $5.92
SB: $5.09
BB: $5.41
UTG: $3.00
UTG+1: $2.68
UTG+2: $8.18

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is BTN with A A
6 folds, Hero raises to $0.15, SB calls $0.13, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.35) 3 9 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.25, SB calls $0.25

Turn: ($0.85) A (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $0.80, SB calls $0.80

River: ($2.45) 8 (2 players)
SB bets $3.89 all in, Hero calls $3.89

Final Pot: $10.23
Hero shows A A (three of a kind, Aces)
SB shows Q J (a flush, Ace high)
SB wins $9.81
(Rake: $0.42)


This second hand, opponent has a big draw on the flop, an open ended straight and a flush draw. His hand as a 52% equity against mine on the flop. On the turn his equity decreases to 32%.
Preflop I am 78% favourite to win the hand against him. He raises in early position and I decided to 3 bet him with my strong hand. He didn't 4 bet, so I thought he probably doesn't have aces.

With a board texture like that with so many draws, I decided for an agressive line and to put my all stack.

Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players - View hand 1769253
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Hero (MP): $8.08
CO: $4.93
BTN: $2.48
SB: $4.70
BB: $5.00
UTG: $7.50
UTG+1: $3.76

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is MP with K K
UTG raises to $0.15, 1 fold, Hero raises to $0.45, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.45, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.42) 5 Q 4 (3 players)
UTG bets $1.20, Hero raises to $5.33, BTN folds, UTG raises to $7.05 all in, Hero calls $1.72

Turn: ($15.52) 9 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($15.52) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $15.52
Hero shows K K (a pair of Kings)
UTG shows 6 7 (high card Queen)
Hero wins $14.88
(Rake: $0.64)

April Results

Lack Of Volume
April was a negative month, nothing to worry about, in part I know what factors contributed to that end result. The main factor was lack of volume, I only played about 28k hands and this is too low. Another factor was zoom cash games, I played more hands of zoom poker than regular cash games at NL5, I got some bad variance and even some bad playing of my own.

New Approach
I am going to evaluate my cash games results in a different way, instead of a monthly check, I will start to make a final evaluation after 60k hands. Only after that volume I will post the overall results. In this way I can evaluate better my play and put the positive/negative variance to minimum. 60k hands is not that much, but due to my present availability for the game it will be used this metric.

Leave the usual overall results, this time divided by stakes, and the overall graph.