NL 200

so far i played around 4k hands @ nl200 and i think i'm doing fine. table selection is important but there are still enough bad players i can easily exploit. overall people are more aggressive and most regulars search for competition which let me go on FPS from time to time. I'm not used to play against people that are somewhat solid so i think i have to adjust to that a little bit. yesterday i had a really good session, was up about 6 stacks and lost all of it only to be up about 40$ in the end.

some hands:

biggest pot
i really hate my betsizing here. i was thinking about 10 sec about what to do and had 5 sec left and typed in just something i thought was around 2.5x his 3bet. villain was solid and 3bet me light. i hit my dream flop and i have to call a shove getting around 2:1 to call. against a range of AA,AK,JJ i have 40% equity so this is a no brainer. he gets lucky on the turn but what can you do. i still don't know what my best play on the flop would be. either reraise more or just muck it. i don't think that he gives my 4bets a lot of credit so i have to go with my hand if i hit a decent flop. being 350$ deep, i am not sure if this is a good plan. i don't like calling but it might have been an option. any thoughts?

same opponent 10min later..

i overshove the turn to look a bit bluffy and get a call by AJ,AQ maybe QQ. i didn't see that we were a bit deep and i should have raised more preflop. he gets lucky again and i am more or less drawing dead on the flop.

lol

i win coinflips
after losing KK 3 times on the very same table against big fishes making running trips, flopping two pair w/ J9 or flopping trips w/ J8 i finally won a big hand...



i am a little frustrated of how the session went. i wanted to go to bed early but couldn't stop playing a table with 3 vpips over 50 and a 70/45 guy splashing chips away. i lost around 500$ at this table and one of the fishes left the table with 1200$. i haven't been as frustrated for a long while as the last fish left the table, stacking me with a set after sending money in all directions with middle pair no kicker, ace high and stuff like that..

anyway, i am looking forward to playing more on this limit. i hope i don't have to go back to NL100. what i need now is a great session to be on the safe side but i won't force it and will go back if my bankroll isn't sufficient anymore.

good luck,
bernd