Going Up

Worked on my faith in my fellow players and got there more then half way.  I did believe 60% of the time and my bankroll doubled.  Yes, it was that low.  Back up to 44% of starting size.

True to my personality, I lost faith a hand full of times and paid the price.  It just seems amazing that they have it.  You are sitting there and thinking, wouldn't it be great to have AA right now, then someone raises big and that is exactly what they have.  To help my ego, I did have the good end of a flip or two and still lost.

As I write this I am thinking I am not looking at this properly.  Most of these are preflop battles for stacks.  I put the hands in the equity calculator after and I usually have the worse of it.  Even against ranges.  Not sure if no all in preflops are correct but I definitely need to reduce mine.  I can think of several times I regret pressing that button.  If I had believed I could be back to even by now. 

I worked more on my post flop game Saturday.  Trying to bet more for value instead of checking it down.  This worked out very well.  Playing less games gave me the time to think through the action and bet when I was ahead.  It was usually small but every dollar helps.

In fact, bet sizing is another item I have been playing with.  I found myself saying, If you bet it, they will call.  This did work a few times and I caught a few non believers for big pots.  I just bet very aggressively and they assumed I was trying to run them over.  Most of the time I had been trying to bet just enough to give them bad odds to call.  Don't know if this is the best way in these games.  The players seem to read it as weakness to get to a cheap river.  And then I am thinking I could have bet more.

Wow!  Writing this out really shows me how many holes I have in my game.  In conjunction with the number of hands you see playing on the internet, your errors really stand out if you look for them.  Playing live at the local casino was giving me a false sense of my skill level. 

I seem to have 1 reader and need your help.  I want to record my sessions to review my hands since wsop.com doesn't support tracker software.  What is a software that can record what is on my screen?  There is a game recorder built into my computer but I can only record one table.  I want to record what ever I see, even if I drag various windows on and off screen to look at different information.  Any ideas?