A Status Report!

As you can see, my win rate has improved over playing at .01/02. .. for now. The $8 rake is a tad high for my liking, but the rake will become less and less as I spew less. Yesterday, I played a bit of .01/02. and .02/05. Overall, I ended up leaving the session $2 behind as I had to go to work. In actuality, probably about $5 up in .02/05... negated by two huge beats I took yesterday to the tune of that $5. (One of them was in .01/02.) Not just that actually.. but I made 2 failed bluff attempts. One of them was really costly and stupid. However, I am improving by not going on tilt when I receive bad beats. This used to cost me a few buy-ins and I could not play for long periods of time.

Looking at my stats, one thing stands out to me that I'm not quite sure about. All the time that I've been playing this game, my W$SD% has been lower than most TAG-style players. Now this either means that I'm being TOO aggressive, by betting people off hands, or folding too much. Looking at my aggression stats in the picture, I'd like to think it was being too aggressive. Flop Agg 5.82, Turn Agg 9.36, River Agg 6.14. Hmmm... which is the bigger leak, folding too much, or being too aggressive? Without much postflop skill, I believe the answer would be "too much aggression"... however, I'm quite confident that my postflop play is beyond beginner level, as I'm seeing a somewhat decent winrate now. I do have a few things I need to work on. One I see happen to me is when I bet on a scarecard that happens hit the opponent. I do need to check a little bit more. And, against weak-tights at $.05NL, when my bluff attempts fail, I think I need to fold sooner. A call or a min-raise and I think I should be done with bluffing.

In conclusion, I just think I need to get a larger sample size. Things that I'l work on include:
1) Knowing when to bluff, and giving up sooner in the face of a re-raise. Even Less Spew.
2) Realizing when a board hit an opponent, and check on the appropriate scare-card.

That's it! Time to test.