Loose/Passive Live Full Ring: Review of Last Adjustments/Experiments

My simple goals were:

1. Don't look at hand until action is to me - Success
   
2. Pay attention to live read - Marginal to bad
   
3. Keep track of the pot size - Marginal
   
4. Count out bet sizes better - Marginal to ok
   

I did well to not look at my hand. Often people checked ahead of me or reminded me within 4 seconds that it was my Turn, but it was ok. I just need to keep developing that habit. I was marginal at best to pay attention to live reads. It's a lot to remember with so many things going on. Next session, I'm going to focus on just this.

Experiments:

• Isolating - This didn't turn out well this time. It's very hard to isolate a single player in these games because people are SO loose preflop. I had to raise extra big to even try to isolate and the times I did, I either got no calls or I got several.

• 3betting a wider value range - I did this 0 times. People raise so seldom in these games that when they do AND you have a good hand, it's luck. There was one guy somewhat aggressive, as well as Dave the dealer who would right light, so I could look to just value 3bet them more often next time. I may be able to isolate very well this way. But overall, it's live, we play few hands, and the game was hold'em only about half or less of the time, so I didn't get any opportunities over such a small sample. I should try again in future sessions.

• Fight for orphaned pots/2nd, 3rd barrel bluff - This was not good in the game I was in because of the short-stacked drooler. I tried a few times, picked up the pot maybe once, got called 3way or more the rest of the time. Player's just aren't folding often and this will probably require some 2nd/3rd barreling to be profitable. It's not something I'm comfortable with until I get better at live reads.