First Coaching Session and 375 hands...

So today I had my first coaching session with Knox828. I sweated him for the first halfish and he sweated me for a bit as well. Overall I basically learned that I was overplaying too many of my hands, and probably need to play a little bit more ABC poker. It was good though, I also learned quite a bit about certain spots and also need to realize that it's not full ring anymore. It's hard to make a pair (pear?), haha....so calling down light is actually OK sometimes!

I had a 375 hand session against some random fish at stars. I didn't really lose any big pots against him, the most was for like 10$ (20bbs). It was only a matter of time before I stacked him, as he was shoving like 3 out of 10 hands, preflop. I just could never catch a hand 99+ to call his all in. He was doing it with such a high frequency that I think 99 was probably ahead of his range. Oh well. Overall I lost 30$ to him, which isn't that bad, but I lost 60 overall, the rake took $30 over 375 hands!!! That's fucking ridiculous IMO. I really need to move up to 100NL, but I hear it's really not that much better there. Anything is better than 50NL though.

Knox moved up at around $3300 bankroll, mine is slightly less at 2467~ish, so I think I've got quite a bit of work to do. Hopefully with the coaching session today, and an increased effort in studying and thinking through all my hands when I play, I can become the winning player I've wanted to be for quite some time.

Updates to come later, and cool graphs hopefully.

Good luck everyone at the tables :D

My first stack starting today:

PokerStars Game #34220778090: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50 USD) - 2009/10/19 16:38:18 CCT [2009/10/19 4:38:18 ET]
Table 'Deimos' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: kutek81 ($46.70 in chips)
Seat 2: Refttt ($52.80 in chips)
Refttt: posts small blind $0.25
kutek81: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Refttt [7h Kd]
Refttt: raises $1 to $1.50
kutek81: raises $1 to $2.50
Refttt: calls $1
*** FLOP *** [Kc 2h 4h]
kutek81: checks
Refttt: bets $3.50
kutek81: calls $3.50
*** TURN *** [Kc 2h 4h] [7s]
kutek81: checks
Refttt: bets $6
kutek81: calls $6
*** RIVER *** [Kc 2h 4h 7s] [Js]
kutek81: checks
Refttt: bets $20
kutek81: raises $14.70 to $34.70 and is all-in
Refttt: calls $14.70
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kutek81: shows [As Ks] (a pair of Kings)
Refttt: shows [7h Kd] (two pair, Kings and Sevens)
Refttt collected $92.90 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $93.40 | Rake $0.50
Board [Kc 2h 4h 7s Js]
Seat 1: kutek81 (big blind) showed [As Ks] and lost with a pair of Kings
Seat 2: Refttt (button) (small blind) showed [7h Kd] and won ($92.90) with two pair, Kings and Sevens