How do you have the bankroll to play up to 1k and 2k on alot of different sites, if I understand correctly you do that? when you just started playing those stakes?

glgl keep crushing!

I mean did villain really play that hand badly? Getting it in with 90%+ equity on the turn.

-.-

he should've clearly folded the river

Crazy journey within a short time. From $50NL to taking shots at Jungleman. Do you coach?

? Am I missing something? Villain physically can't fold the river.

You must have never experienced the "Brags, Beats, and Variance" threads lol

ez fold otr

You dont need to have 100bi on every site. Just requires ton of suffling money around the sites which is a pia though, but helps when you have friends you can trade money around effortlessly.


Not atm, been thinking about it and might start later. Think its something that I'd enjoy, but it would require so much effort as if I'll do something like that, I'm def going the CFP route, as the $$/hr is stupid.





Just had 5-6 day break from poker as was on a small trip/vacation. So excited to beat this hangover hit the gym and play poker tomorrow. Volume this month has been **** and been running like **** at cash. Plan is to do proper 2 week lockdown mode and grind+study ****load and no alcohol until 1st of may when student party **** goes down.

Then its SCOOP time and might be going to Wien for few weeks to gamble on some timbeys to win mirrions, and meet some pokrrr players. Depends if I manage to get a place to stay.

I had already forgot what a downswing feels like and how much I hate the feeling when you just keep having losing sessions back to back for prolonged time. Just makes you feel like you suck so bad when you can't win a single SD and all bluffs get looked up. Previously when I've had downswing, my orange line has always stayed strong, but this time even it has taken a big dive and I've talked about this earlier, it's much harder to deal with this type of downswing, even though they might not be too different.

Haven't felt this much hate towards poker in atleast a year or so, like when running like this (yeah tbf I might not be able to blame everything on variance) I even feel thinking about what it would feel like just quitting poker altogether and live stress free. But WCYD, just need to keep playing A-game and I should beat it, already have decent sample of the games I am playing and fairly confident I can beat em. Not doing the fish mistake of just trying to force volume as that **** don't work, instead putting more emphasis on studying and playing quality sessions, even though it cuts my volume as I find myself taking studying break between sessions and cutting sessions short etc. In the big picture, streches like this will definitely push myself to become better poker player (as long as I don't break my backbone or bankroll lmao).

No battling or NL2k until I've beat the downswing.


#prayforOP

#gayforOP

srsly tho keep your head up and if **** hits the fan u re clearly a #MTTpro for laif anyway bink sth in scoop and buy som island

i dont usually play cash but last month ive been dabbling in 50z to play quick sessions and ive played roughl;y 40k hands and down only 17-18 bi and its driving me mad let alone playing at high stakes so i know how youre feeling abit hope you pull through as i enjoy reading this thread.

everytime I hit these kind of downswings I start table selecting seriously and it really helps a lot to recover

good luck man

Turning into MTT reg is like the Plan-J on my list, but binking a SCOOP is something I've been planning for few months already. : )

My brain is already so ****ed up when considering the $$ value, that I don't think it matters too much how much $$ I lose or win, all about the bigblinds, evbigblinds are the lyfe! It's actually something I think is really important to be able to play highstakes, or even midstakes, it's just not possible to grind those stakes if you have a normal view of money.




Also gymprogress going stronk.

- Deadlifted 140x5 today and that was after 4 sets of squats, pretty sure I can already DL 150x5 or so. Will keep adding 5kg every time until I cant get a set of 5.

- Squatted 4x5x100kg, which is cool. Yeah I managed to squat 100k way earlier, but doing 4 sets of those is very different.

- Gotten into weighted pullups, managed to do 3 sets of 5 with 5kg plate, and 10 pullups with no weight. Back when I started doing these like 5-6 months ago, I was barely able to do 1-2 chinups.

- Gaining weight. Back when I started during november, I can't remember exactly, but think I was something like 75kg, atm I'm 85kg, but 1 kg or so prob still in me from the 4 day drinking and eating ****. Week and going to start cutting weight for month or two depends.

You'll get through it boss

gl gl

on the gym front youre a fkn beast

Sign me up!

GL with the downswing boss you'll recover!

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Done for the month I think, was trying to put one last session, but due to fixing my sleepsched I woke up at 2am and couldn't really get enough 1k to get going, and wasn't feeling grinding mostly midstakes, so figured I'd just study for hour or two instead. Gonna play no poker for rest of the month as biggest student partyhappening is going over the weekend and bunch of friends coming to town, so just gonna relax and drink some moderate amount of beer (actually trying to keep it reasonable this time and not the normal 3 day bender on full steam that usually is happening during this time of the year).



Month was disappointing results and volume wise, won 20k or so in MTTs and lost 35k or so in cashgames. Not that bad of a month on absolute results wise due the MTT winnings, but MTT wins doesnt feel like winnings as its not bigblinds. : D Volume was probabhly worst month ever, but a weeklong break and downswing does that sometimes. Definitely not a person that can just keep putting same hours as normal in the tables when getting crushed, I'm more of a sit back and study more and take more time off, which kinda is bad in a way, but kinda prob better for mental state.

For a brief period during the month I hated poker so bad, but over it now and loving playing again. Just combination of running consitently so ****ing bad in situations and not feeling confident of my game due the week long break really ****ed up my mental game for a bit. But just started grinding the lab more than usualy and it was only like 4-5 days and I was back at feeling confident of my game again, and when you feel confident of your game, running bad affects you way less than when you are unsure in ton of spots. As when you know the spot well, you don't really care what happens as you know your strategy is ok and these hands fit here and these here, and here I deviate like this because XYZ etc. But when you are unsure of many spots and keep consistently running into top of villains ranges in all situations, you start questioning your play way more and feel like ****.

But at the moment, not at all worried of the downswing, it's only about 20bi, which happens from time to time even if you crushh (which I may do or may not, time will tell) and only a small bump in the last ~6 month ev graph. The ds probably would've been smaller if I was able to be playing perfect all the time when running bad esp, after the break, which I wasn't and didn't do the smart decision of playing lower for first few days.


Haven't been playing NL2k for a bit and probably won't touch that until BR a bit more healthy for it. And that means I need to mix in more 400 and 600, that I basically haven't done after January or so. And lately been feeling like not playing if I've seen that I can't get at least half of the tables to be NL1k, and definitely need to fix this mental block. EV isn't that different between 400-600 and 1k, and I need to start putting in some serious volume starting from the next month.


Money results for the year is not that hot overall, but still up a decent amount and in terms of sklanskies I'm well at the pace of 200k year, which is sort of a soft goal for the year. BUT THE YEAR IS JUST GETTING STARTED, LETS ***** GOOOOO!



Month. Poker is not that fun when ur bluline takes a dive like this

subd gl

Okay this didn't go as planned. Just finishing 4 day bender and feel terrible as ****. Now trying to get back to feeling normal tomorrow, gym poker and all that stuff, and starting to diet too. Was fun, but drinking definitely not gto.

LFG

you could try playing lower stakes like zoom 200 when you downswing, just for the sake of putting in a bit of volume and helping for the mental game, studying is good but if you don't put in the volume to apply properly what you study it kinda becomes counter productive, and I mean not playing lower stakes for a whole month but just for 1 or maybe 2 days

rip

Lol... no ****ing way he should do that... adding some NL400 should be more than enough and probably not even necessary, he could stick to NL600-1K and that's it.

Yes this would actually be smart, and I've been playing a bit more midstakes, particularly 500z that I find incredibly soft at certain hours. But going lower than NL400 doesn't really work for me, already a bit demotivated to play lower than 1k as like 90% of my volume past 5 months has been 1-2k. Buuuut, I can kinda put last month as a sort of vaction as took so much time off. Basically took like 2 weeks off, and considering that my volume during the time I played, was ok. Hard to put volume in, when you spend more time drinking beer than at battlestation. XD But now no drinking or doing stupid **** for long time, and probably won't be going to wien for scoop as getting a place to crash for few weeks was a bit problematic, so not drinking is gonna be ez.


Only closers allowed ITT, please leave. xx


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