need to brag once again. 30k$ ev in last 3 running months!

Nice graph! Gg bro! Gl

Sick graph! Is that all 200z?

I do that fairly often, quitting and basically taking a day off when running really hot off the start, like if I win 5-6 buy ins within 30 mins or something stupid I just turn it off and play video games too

I think its fine, it works for me otherwise I would grind too much, because when I stuck I can play 12 hours just to make sure I finish the day up

graph is siiiiiiick

Really nice graph man!

looking good man! keep up the good work. 100k year coming eaaaasy

ty guys that's very encouraging!

hey thanks. just checked it's 80% 200z. rest is 500z 100z 400nl 200nl 100nl.


i never play longer than what i'm schedule to play.. i'm afraid of how i would feel if i'd lose even more haha. i can relate to the rest and it makes sense, as long as we don't do it too often i think. it's probably different for everyone, what i mean is we should all do things that help not falling into bad habits but those things differ from person to person. stop playing early on thurs/fri/sat to take a beer and play video games is dangerous zone for me lol.

I think you can definitely spot leaks from this spot, the question is how much they apply to you.

The thing is that you are going to play the rest of the hands that you were supposed to play anyway and the luck run out will be the same no matter what, but they are going to be played under different circumstances and the luck distribution may affect you differently (which is the leak that you might want to fix, assuming you fall under that category).

Let's say, just for arguments sake, that you continue playing your session and end up down swinging 10 BI's after you highest winning peak. This would probably be tilting as you were just winning 3 BI's but you end up being stuck 7 throughout and at the end of the session.

Now let's say that you stop playing with 600$ profit. You play the next day and the luck is the same, only this time you start your session by losing and you won't tilt as much. You may even be more motivated to play a better game so that you can get unstuck and you might end up saving some money because you have been playing better than in the previous scenario.

In a perfect world you play the same (your A game) in both scenarios.

This is in my opinion the most subtle mental game leak that you would want to look out for in this spot. I am obviously not going to tell a crusher that he should not be forming bad habits by stopping when winning, because you are probably years over that

playing suboptimal as not only to do with losing streaks, but with winning streaks aswell, so if you feel you're not going to play your best game after winning x BIs , then you should quit, and that is not a mental leak, but a good dicision, don't know what you guys are on about

happens to me a lot , and its not the same everyday. i can win 3BIs and feel that im done, or win 7 or 8 and keep playing

My point exactly

It might be a good decision (if it's not repeated often), but I can't see how it is not a leak. Something that affects your game in a negative way is a leak in my book..
If you're a pro, stuff like these should not stop you from putting in volume, which is the 2nd most important thing, after bb/100, for determining your hourly.

Edit: I know you're probably well aware of all this which makes your post even that more confusing to me

lol there is no human that won't get affected by losing more than x or winning more than x , even if you're with >10 years experience, that will always happen, and there is nothing you can do about it. ones more than others, and some days it'll be easier to start playing suboptimaly than others. you can't consider that a leak, leak would be to continue playing after being affected..

and yes, those things will inevitably stop you from putting volume if you always want to play your best game, and winrate is way more important than volume per se these days, because lolamaya

Surely you don't believe that there aren't people out there who's game doesn't get affected by the results so much so that they have to sacrifice their edge and lose volume...

I'll take the pro CS:GO players as an example to pin-point this aspect of the mental game. A finesse which distinguishes the most elite pros from just the good ones is their ability to not have their game affected by the result of the match. This is just as much of a skill as their actual ability to play CS. This is so important that people actually hire coaches so that can get past it.

I'm not saying you shouldn't occasionally stop after winning and x amount in a short period of time. But if you do that all the time after winning that x amount because it affects your game - you definitely have a mental leak that you should work on.

tbh for me when I quit being up a bunch it is because I did not even feel like playing poker that day to begin with

good points. but bmb is right imo you can work on your mental game, altho i don't think martim was quite saying the contrary. one thing is sure, you can't always use the logic, ''i should quit now because i will tilt a lot if i lose many buy-ins in the next 750 hands (let's say those are the last 750 hands of the session) and i will tilt/be unhappy less if lose those buy-ins in the middle of my session tomorrow''. otherwise i would quit every sessions early, i hate to die losing a bunch at the end of a session. and even with mental work maybe i can't completely erased the fact that i'm gonna be unhappy for the rest of the night if i lose at the end of a session, but i can work on playing my A game wether i lose or not in the last quarter of a session, work on not play tighter or scared money.

Just dont look at results. Problem solved

if you win 3 buy-ins in your first/last 200 hands... you kind of have a feeling of the results without looking at them :O

If you are up a bunch early on, you stop playing and go out and do something fun. If you lose a bunch, you spend the rest of the day getting unstuck or throw your laptop against the wall. Is this not what other people are doing !?

after playing for 4 hours losing and winning stacks I easily forget if I won or lost the session. ofcourse after 30 mins and 3bi up you know you're up but maybe you lost 3 50/100bb pots and actually are just up 1.5bi. who knows. Just not focussing on results but focussing on making the right decisions really helped me with these issues.

^ i watch results during session once a month or something don't worry (usually cause i want to quit super early).

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things are still great. i have reach a 10k (ev)(before rakeback) month already! i usually stop playing for the month when i reach 10k but it's because there is usually one day left to the month lol. i'm at 36k vpps for april, if i'm still over 10k winnings when i reach 44k vpps, i will stop grinding for april and take a small vacation for the end of the month. if i don't reach 44k vpps, i will send 30$ usd on stars to the first two persons who post 'valee is a baller' in this thread.

i recently had motivation problems: friday, it was my 15th grinding day in a row and i won a lot early on.. wasn't able to keep grinding. played full session saturday. sunday, i was very tired and hangover and did not give a **** about poker or doing anything... was able to grind still! finished a bit early on sunday night, went to the uni close of my apartment to play volley-ball with friends.. busted my ankle pretty hard. didn't bother picking up crutches, figured i wouldn't go out of my small apartment much, for the week. it was important to elevate my foot on monday if i wanted a quick recovery and so i tried playing a bit of poker but my foot in the air was annoying.. also i won 3bi quickly . stopped playing very early once again. grinded full days on tuesday and wednesday, also went to the gym this morning (didnt do legs but my ankle is getting better).

not playing like i did on friday and monday makes me think a lot about discipline and how much days off i should take each month etc. it's tough because i definitely have a lazy side (like all of you degens) and i play more hands and hours than the vast majority of poker players i know, so not playing is always tempting, esp when i'm up 50bi for the month. but like i said earlier itt, having goals and a serious schedule help motivation/discipline a lot.

an example of something you can do for discipline is something that happened to me this morning. i made plans to study with a friend around 10am on skype/teamviewer. obvsly i don't want to bail on this commitment. i had to go the gym today as well so i had to get up early and hit the gym to be on time for the skype meeting. after my gym i wasn't in the mood for studying at all, i studied a lot in the last few days and i've been winning all month so obvsly i'd prefer netflix or taking a nap or watching useless youtube videos. but i had to study and i did. i personally don't need this kind of ''trick'' anymore because i get up early and study every morning basically but i would have needed it in the past years.

i watched desolation of smaug in the last few days, very very good. didn't watch it when it came out because i didn't like the first movie much (probably because i watched that one in french). looking forward for the third movie.

hands:


probably a reg table kind of fish.






vs big whale





going thin-ish vs annoying monkey





weee






very last hand of a session. came to the conclusion that i should fold, for couple of top secret reasons. therefore i called .






you tricky mischievous silly boy you

valee is a baller

valee is a baller

damn time zone..

valee is a fish.

when are we moving to lambda ?

sn?