Tonight Paul and I played heads up poker for a few hours. After each hand we flipped over our cards and traded thoughts. Mostly, Paul pushed me to be more aggressive pre-flop, particularly with my medium pairs.
I mostly felt ambivalent about the learning value of our session, although I did learn a couple of things. I think the session (5 hours) was too long and I got tired by the end. I didn't have the energy to keep playing well and discussing hands.
I got home at 2:30am excited to play poker, but tired. I was going to play a SNG until I realized that it was just after closing time on the biggest bar night of the year. I moved up a stake, eventually as high as three, and looked for tables with a high players per flop percentage and a high dollars per pot number.
Three things happened.
I ran well, really well. At one table I got quads three times, at another table I got AK/AQ/AA more times than Darvin Moon.
I was more aggressive pre-flop. I also think I folded to aggression more.
People bluffed me.
$360
That made for my biggest night ever. After that, I think working with Paul helped more than I realized.
Of course, I spent all of Thanksgiving dreaming of pro possibilities and reading Ed Miller.
