Just closed out the live week in very good shape. Up +$1625 in 9.5 hours for Saturday. +$1255 net for the week. I will take it. What a relief after a miserable Thursday-Friday.
I felt the most comfortable and thought I played my best 2-5 sessions tonight. I'd say a buy-in was won because the deck just hit me a little. But the other two buy-ins were from abusing bad players and playing solid.
A big improvement I identified from tonight's play was my implementation of two successful semi-bluffs to take down decent pots. They were bluffs against the right regulars that worked very well. They weren't suicidal bluffs where I would be drawing to the river with no equity if called on the turn, just very well placed. Both happened to be turn barrels heads up. I don't want to overdo it but well placed bluffs are essential if I want to get a win-rate over $30 per hour. I have a lot of respect as a nitty solid player and I can get a ton of respect from the regulars during the upcoming months running well placed bluffs.
You obviously have to be bluffing every once in a while to take down some moderate pots against certain players. Unless you just run like God or happen to find a table with 6-7 casual players. That's about all I wanted to say right now.
It's 9:00 a.m but at least I have something to feel good about.
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