Interesting hero Call

Lately I've been doing some experimenting with hero calls.  Now I don't normally like to make hero-esque plays, but I think it's necessary in some cases in order to increase win-rate.  Below is an example of a hero call.  I'll post my thoughts of each play as I go.

Hand #1749011426001243: Calgary (6-Max) 11426
Seat 2: N.Sa*** (20.10 in chips)
Seat 3: Unab*** (26.30 in chips)
Seat 4: Bans*** (37.95 in chips)
Seat 5: senorbum (19.55 in chips)
Seat 6: wild*** (12.95 in chips)
Seat 7: Sina*** (46.30 in chips)
N.Sa***: posts small blind $0.10
Unab***: posts big blind $0.20
Dealt to senorbum [ Ac Qc  ]
Bans***: folds
senorbum: raises to $0.70  Pretty obvious raise
wild***: folds
Sina***: folds
N.Sa***: folds
Unab***: calls
@@@ F_L_O_P @@@ [ 7c 7h 9s  ]
Unab***: checks
senorbum: checks  Now I will normally cbet here, but I like to mix it up once in a while to balance my range.
# # # TURN # # # [ 8d ]  This is a pretty blank card.  I'm probably still ahead here
Unab***: bets $0.60  Odd bet sizing here.  It's like 1/3 pot or so.  This is either a monster or nothing almost always.  If it is some random 1 pair like A8s, he's probably giving up on the river, even though he shouldn't.
senorbum: calls
&&& RIVER &&& [ 4s ]
Unab***: bets $2.70  This bet makes no sense at all.  He went from extreme underbetting to making a PSB.  If he has a monster, he's almsot certainly just mashing the 1/2 pot button.  Rarely do people at these limits value bet the river so hard.  Occasionally you might see it, but not often. 
senorbum: calls
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Unab***: shows [ Kc Ts ] (Pair of Sevens  ) 
senorbum: shows [ Ac Qc ] (Pair of Sevens  )
senorbum wins $7.70 with Pair of Sevens with Ace  kicker

Cake poker action

So apparently the people who play on cake poker are absolutely awful. Most of them are very tight passive, which is a little weird to get used to since people like that just don't stack off with TPTK. However, once you realize this, it's pretty easy to manipulate. Also, a lot of the awful players are regulars so note taking is very beneficial.

One of the ways I've been getting people to put money in when they are behind is to check behind the turn after cbetting the flop. I used to just continue firing the turn with marginal hands such as top pair weak kicker, but against many opponents I allow them a chance to bluff or call a value bet on the river. People who are weak tight are much more willing to call a river bet than they are a turn bet as there isn't a street of betting remaining. This is probably elementary for a lot of people, but I feel like I finally have gotten a good grasp of board textures to do so with.

Also, rakeback is still amazing. I'm at around $50 so far this month, with plenty of time left to scoop up more. Rakeback eases the pain of variance.

Edit: Here is an example of utterly awful play, which is far from uncommon.
Hand #1747011405001022: Calgary (6-Max) 11405
Seat 3: 1put*** (35.85 in chips)
Seat 4: donk*** (11.15 in chips)
Seat 5: senorbum (19.80 in chips)
Seat 6: mumt*** (20.90 in chips)
Seat 8: rabi*** (25.96 in chips)
senorbum: posts small blind $0.10
mumt***: posts big blind $0.20
Dealt to senorbum [ Ah Qh ]
rabi***: folds
1put***: folds
donk***: raises to $0.70
senorbum: raises to $2.10
mumt***: folds
donk***: calls
@@@ F_L_O_P @@@ [ Th 8c Ad ]
senorbum: bets $2.40
donk***: raises to $5.80
senorbum: is all in 15.3000
donk***: folds
senorbum: returns uncalled bet $11.90
*** SHOW DOWN ***
senorbum: mucks
senorbum wins $15.20

Quick Update

Today I started dabbling in some $16 turbo Single table Sit and Go tournaments to see if the competition is any tougher than the $6 tournaments. So far, it seems not to be. My first tournament ended when blinds got somewhat high and somebody decided to slow play AA to my AJ. The flop came 2J5 or something, with 2 suits. I had to stack off, as there was so much he/she could have had. But my second tournament came with me taking down first! I know it is just a STT, but its still good to know that these don't have that tough of competition. I got most of my chips when an aggressive player raised from the CO into my AK in the BB. I reraised about a pot sized amount, then he shoved over me. We were #1 and #2 in chips, so I wasn't quite pot committed at that point. I tanked for a bit and made the call and he turned up KQo. I've been tanking more and more latetly, just because I want to evaluate what I think he/she could have. Making snap decisions is definitely -EV.

Belated Happy New Year

Well, the new year is off to a slow start.  I've been playing about breakeven this month so far (including last couple days of dec.).  I only got bronze in ironman last month.  I would have had silver if I played something like 3 more days.  My mind was fried though after finals and whatnot.  Oh well.

I haven't had any interesting hands really, so nothing too new to post regarding that.  I will be playing quite a bit this week so I should be able to pick up something interesting.  Also, if I got stop running bad, that'd be super.

Congrats to loretta for hitting the top100 on the Pstars leaderboard.  He now gets a chance to play for a 6stamp passport, and some other cash.  I haven't looked at the structure yet, but hopefully it will allow for some time between levels.

That's it for now.  More to come soon!