Playing fewer tables

Today I spent a ton of time on working on a paper about SPKI (simple public key infrastructure) which I have to finish until Wednesday. In the breaks I went shopping and posted/read a bit in the cr forums. I'm really surprised how fast traffic there is increasing especially at micro stakes. Looks like a lot of newer players decided to learn a bit more over the game in the new year. Gonna be interesting if this will go back down again in a few months. Also it looks like many new people join the community because of Taylors protege announcement but anyways more traffic is fine for me.

Later I decided to play a bit poker, but wasn't in the mood for my standard 2 hours multi table madness. So I decided it could be funny and also good for my game to try to play only 4 tables. It's been quite a while since I was sitting down with this few tables and I was pretty excited about how I would perform.

I ran very hot. Wow poker with reads seems suddenly very easy. I think I took pretty solid lines. I made a few nice squeezes and did very good in the smallish spots which is also reflected by my stats:

My Won$WSF was very high which comes from me betting out from the blinds with a late position limper quite frequently. I think if I could do this a bit more while 12-tabling this would increase my winrate significately. Also I won most of the showdowns and agression factors are very high, but meh such a smallish sample size. Maybe I will continue one playing only 4 tables for a few days because this should help me identify a few leaks and also gets me prepared for moving up to 50nl at the end of the month cause want to start with 4 tables there. This also should make my winrate for the month look a lot better.

I also played a hand which I'm very unhappy with:

Party Poker, $0.10/$0.25 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

Hero (CO): $24.90
BTN: $49.37
SB: $51.80
BB: $25.35
UTG: $50.74

Pre-Flop: Q Q dealt to Hero (CO)
UTG calls $0.25, Hero raises to $1.25, BTN calls $1.25, 3 folds

Flop: ($3.10) J T 5 (2 Players)
Hero bets $2.30, BTN calls $2.30

Turn: ($7.70) 5 (2 Players)
Hero bets $6, BTN calls $6

River: ($19.70) 8 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

Results: $19.70 Pot ($0.98 Rake)
Hero showed Q Q (two pairs, Queens and Fives) and WON $18.72 (+$9.17 NET)
BTN mucked J K (two pairs, Jacks and Fives) and LOST (-$9.55 NET)

Button had decent taggish stats and was playing fairly aggro post flop. On flop and turn I bet pretty big both for value and for protection. I figured his cold calling range pre flop with the 2 calls on this board to be some big broadway cards or smaller sc's thatare calling with the draw. In that case there would be no value in betting the river cause every draw missed so I decided to check it to him and hoped for him bluffing the missed draw.

Instead he insta checked behind and mucked a passive played TPGK. I think against a somewhat thinking opponent it is a leak to hope for them bluffing the river. Also my turn bet was pretty big and I guess a naked draw would have folded. I guess I missed one street of big value here and this sucks. I don't think he would have folded to a shove.

So I will watch a bit tv now and then go to bed. Need get a lot of work done tomorrow and wanna visit the gym.

Thanks for reading
Thomas