Week 4 of 5/10 Party

[wahooriver]

Here we go.

My goals this week were to increase my aggressiveness, especially blind stealing.

Week 3 stats (for comparison)

2771 hands
+79 BB (2.85 BB/100)
VP$IP - 26%
PFR - 9.6%
PFAg - 1.55
Attempts to steal blind - 18%
Won w/o showdown - 44% (20% no flop) - after steal attempt

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Week 4

3072 hands
+88 BB (2.88 BB/100)
VP$IP 26.3
PFR 11.2%
PostFAg 1.72
AttStealBlinds 22.5%
Won w/o showdown - 49% (20% no flop) - after steal attempt

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Observations

1. Very successful week - continued with the week long winning streaks to 4.
2. Usual ups and downs - biggest slide still around 30-40 BB.
3. Finally achieving my desired aggression.
4. Still need to work on folding earlier when I know that I am beat.
5. Overall, very satisfied with the move to 5/10 and will continue for now.

Overall success:

11,700 hands
+248 BB (+2.12 BB/100) with SD 16.9 BB/100

[lehighguy]

I just moved to 5/10 two weeks ago myself. I've only played 5,000 hands or so but have had somewhat similair results. I had a big nosedive at one point when I tried to move from 1-2 tables to four. Shorthanded is just to read dependent for me to do that right away. I need to watch the players when I'm not in the hand.

VPIP: 17.25% (this is slowly moving up)
PF Raise: 13%
BB/100: 2.3
Won $ at SD: 53.86%
Attempt to steal blinds: 26.4%
PFAggression: 2.09

I like you week 4 versus your week 3. More aggressive. Then again I'm perhaps to aggressive sometimes, I need to cut down.

One big leak I've noticed is blind play. It is very tough for me when they fold to me in sb and I raise with decent hand like K10o. Then when I don't hit the hand becomes very diffucult. In general HU out of posistion is diffucult with marginal hands. How are you dealing with this?

[wahooriver]

you raise a very interesting dilemma
I believe it depends a lot on who is sitting to your left. Context is everything in all betting situations.

[lehighguy]

Its much easier against passive players. The diffuculty comes when your against someone who will always bet when you check to them. Now the second you stop betting you lose the pot.

I can limit my bluff liability by only completing rather then raising, but then I'm losing my preflop advantage. Also, I hate not raising blind cause I can't tell if that flop of 2,2,4 helped him or not.

[wahooriver]

I must admit my SB play is probably my weakness at 6max. I am using the following general strategy:

1. call when I have any reasonable hand and there has been no raise
2. call raises only when I would normally call raises
3. raise when I would normally raise
4. raise when I think the BB will fold sometimes - the occasional bluff makes my real raises work better
5. vary checking and betting after the flop - even if I hit
6. I am clearly will to fold if I miss the flop - losing at most 1BB

I would like to get some other advice on SB/BB play though - this is a major issue in SH games.