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I’m back with the information fresh in my memory. This article will serve me as a reminder as well as a good article for you, the reader.

The theme for the 3-bet coaching session: Keep it simple!

Some of the biggest winners at higher stakes have a very tight call 3-bet range in position. And I mean pretty tight, like AJs+, AQo+, TT+ and sometimes hands like JTs but that’s about it.

Out of position it’s even tighter, something along the lines of JJ+, AK, sometimes AQ and no going crazy post-flop, if you don’t hit you often just check-fold.

You don’t have to play crazy and call lots of 3-bets, it has been proven by big winners in the game. I know it feels shitty when you keep folding to 3-bets, I feel this way too!

It is the reason I sometimes spew off money in 3-bet pots. I’m going to stop doing it and see how things progress.

I used to be alot better in these areas, alot more patient!

As for calling 3-bets in position, how do you proceed?

Well you can bluffraise Axx, Kxx, Qxx sometimes Jxx flops but keep it at a low enough frequency where you’re range is atleast twice as much for value compared to bluffs. You do not have to bluff like a MF to win tons of money.

If you flop gutshots, underpairs, top pairs (sometimes) you can float the flop and see what happens. And if it’s checked to you on the turn you do not have to bet everytime, if you’re keeping your range mostly in valuespace people will give you respect.

So keep your 3-bet game simple and make lots of monies!

P.S. 3-betting someone is a totally different game, I’ll go into that another time.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it but I am doing some coaching with Jason Ho at the moment. I am satisfied with him so far.

I’ve been through so many coaches in the years I’ve been playing, some not so good, some outright ‘WTF ARE YOU DOING?’ and some awesome!

Jason Ho goes somewhere between good and awesome, I don’t know yet. Tomorrow I’ll have my 6th session with him, it’s going to be about 3-betting. I’ll give you guys a summary once we’re done, that way maybe I can retain some of the lesson as well.

He’s helped me get my game back on track after I’ve been running badly for a long time. I only play around 30,000 hands a month so a longer bad stretch takes awhile for me to get through.

Oh yes, the crappy weather. I think I jinxed it last time. Today there was a snow-storm and I had to walk to my ju-jutsu class and then straight from ju-jutsu a friend picked me up and we went to aikido class.

My body feels crushed with back to back classes.

I’ll report back tomorrow!

It’s finally over and it’s getting warmer up here in scandinavia.

There’s more light to each day, that’s good. Not many suicidal thoughts left anymore.

It’s almost time to go skiing with the semi-warm winter weather and the sun shining, my parents invited me to a place later in march. Should be fun, it’s been a while since I did the slalom thing (is that an english word or just swedish?), and of course I am bringing my girlfriend, otherwise I’d have to bring books or something.

Pokerwise I got in about 22-23,000 hands this month. That’s pretty weak for me but I can never seem to get in too many hands.

My average is probably around 30,000 hands the last 5 years I’ve been playing. Everytime I try and play more than that, say 45,000 hands, the next month I feel semi burned out. I don’t understand how players like Leatherass do it and get in 100,000+ hands a month consistently.

They must love poker more than I do. I feel kind of sick of poker but I still play, feel kind of forced to. I’d rather play poker than start studying something I don’t want to study, or work somewhere where I have to work 8 hours a day. That’s 30% of my day!

Play poker 2 hours a day, yes thank you.

Then again, there’s no rush. Why force yourself to play if you aren’t in dire need of money? I know many players think that online poker will die and they have to play as many hands now as they can, and I can relate to that, I’m trying to get away from that kind of thinking.

I don’t want to burn myself out grinding more hands than I want to grind. If I make $5k, $10k, $15k doesn’t make a big difference in my life right now. I’m not after big material wealth, although making lots of money would certainly not be harmful, it’s not completely necessary either.

Then again, I could just be trying to rationalize my slacking, slacking is good for you

Check this out, hilarious…

Have you noticed how easily your happiness level is disturbed?

If I’m not consciously aware of it one single thing can catapult me into world sucks mode, and it sucks.

Today I’ve been trying to be more aware and it’s been going well. I’ve been listening to “Don’t worry, Be happy” for a few hours.

If you think about it logically, there is no benefit to being pissed off and angry. Except the good feeling of feeling bad about yourself, you all know what I mean.

I’m trying to learn how to become less fazed by all these things. I guess that’s what the meditators, buddhists and those guys are after.

Feeling inner joy despite bad external circumstances. I am beginning to see it as a more and more worthy goal to strive for.

Things will change in this life.

Life will go in cycles, ups and downs, diagonal and horizontal, who knows?!

If you’re happy/joyous/content then basically you are setting yourself up for good stuff. You see opportunities better when you’re happy.

You find more solutions when you’re happy. You meet cool people when you’re happy. People become happy because you are happy.

Happy, happy, happy.

I am trying to logically become the dude who is content, but it probably doesn’t work that way.

I’ve been meditating on and off since I was 16 so that has helped some. Yoga is awesome too. And martial arts!

Still I sometimes go into these cycles where I just get into a depressive mode by the smallest thing, and it sucks!