I have start doing ‘homework’ after my sessions. I have never done this before. After one homework and a bit of reading, I hope I’ll be plugging one of my leaks which is pushing/calling all in preflop with draws. e.g.: Ax suited on a flush draw, QTo on a straight draw board.
When my opponents like their cards and their are betting it aggressively, I don’t have any fold equity when pushing all in.
When my opponents like their cards and their putting me all in, I’ll usually get 2 to 1 or 3 to 1 odds which is bleeding money in the long run.
This type of high variance play is suitable if I have 50+ buy-ins so I will stop doing it.
And every time I repeat it I will post it here to remind me how much I lost.
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LOST 120bb
Example homework:
SB: $1.95
Hero (BB): $16.36
UTG: $10.09
MP: $7.05
CO: $18.18
BTN: $17.66
Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BB with Q 
9
2 folds, CO calls $0.10, 1 fold, SB calls $0.05, Hero checks
Flop: ($0.30) 4 
J K (3 players)
SB bets $0.30, Hero raises to $0.80, CO raises to $1.60, SB folds, Hero?
Notes on CO: SJ (suited junky), Limpsalot, c/c draws, bets = goods
CO is a habitual limper and I have seen him playing his draws passively.
Scenario 1 -
1. I’m putting him on top pair with medium/good kicker, two pairs, sets.
2. His range would be: K9s+,K4s,J4s,K9o+,K4o,J4o,44.
Text results appended to pokerstove.txt
56,430 games 0.005 secs 11,286,000 games/sec
Board: Kd Jd 4c
Dead:
equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 43.099% 42.89% 00.21% 24201 120.00 { Qd9d }
Hand 1: 56.901% 56.69% 00.21% 31989 120.00 { K9s+, K4s, J4s, K9o+, K4o, J4o }
3. I don’t think he is drawing to a straight or flush because he usually calls his draws until he hits.
4. I don’t have any fold equity because he likes his cards on the flop and he wants to play a big pot right now. So putting him all in is high variance.
5. Since my pot odds are 30/8 ( 3.75 to 1) and my equity against his range is 57/42 ( 1.35 to 1) then flat calling the 3bet is best and EV+ (pot odds > equity).
Turn play:
Blank card: Call any turn that isn’t an overbet or all in. If villain put in a pot sized bet (PSB), my pot odds is 3 to 1, my equity is 2 to 1.
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I lost this hand because I didn’t know and didn’t care about my equity and pot odds before doing this homework. I just ‘feel’. I just jammed the pot thinking that my flush draw + gutshot is good without ever considering any of opponents history, without putting him in a range, and without trying to calculate the pot odds and my equity against his range.
This is not saying that I will check call every time I’m on a draw, I will continue to throw in semi bluff bets to build the pot but not to blow the pot and my equity apart.
The only draws that I’m going crazy will be straight + flush draws.
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Good news: I have claimed the $50 bonus. Yay!
