cheers fellas

Have we played eachother withnosense? glgl

some hands i reviewed

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $473.31
SB: $162.35
Hero (BB): $100.00
UTG: $265.50
MP: $82.36
CO: $117.38

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with 9 J
1 fold, MP raises to $3, 2 folds, SB calls $2.50, Hero calls $2

Flop: ($9.00) 6 9 4 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: ($9.00) 8 (3 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $4.45, MP calls $4.45, SB folds

River: ($17.90) 9 (2 players)
Hero bets $12.75, MP raises to $29.80

Hero?

Yes we did!
About hand assume this guy is a fish, and he is most likely passive there I'd fold. But his sizing is good, since it become bit difficult for us

yeah nit fish.....i folded we dont beat anything and that size is never a bluff

time for quick update

playing well
variance is positive
ground back 7.5bi
2 tabling on the couch at the moment plus alot of study.

months is done
be after rb
in some ways im happy because after ds im mentally solid. playing 2 tables of good poker. Not tilting at all even after bad beats and mistakes. In a good place

thats what we like to hear!

on to the next month mate

gl gl

thanks mate

OK so after taking a few days off grinding and just studying i move my grind station to the couch! Laptop on my lap with earphones are great and a relaxed environment.

I have been back on the grind playing only two tables (laptop is only good for two). Playing quite well overall.

Won about approx 10bi so ds is only -32bi and only -25ev.

I will continue to focus and play only two tables for some time. Im not concerned about volume now. Just quality play and rational decision making.

Great mental status, best of luck

thanks bud
graph since last graph update

Ownage

wow very nice man

Ma boy! Awesome start to the month

#asexpected

cheers legends

Played a session yesterday and lost like $360 but eve only -$175. Did not play well at all though. Im finding the sessions when i dont play well i make decisions waaaay to quickly and often its the wrong decision. Today was much better, besides one bad call vs a fish with 90% river bet lol I guess A high on K666x in 3b pot was not that good yet i really did think vs this opponent its a relatively strong hand.


yesterday and todays graph



vs fish

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $100.00
Hero (SB): $105.86
BB: $165.23
UTG: $304.84
MP: $122.94
CO: $103.89

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is SB with A A
4 folds, Hero raises to $2.78, BB raises to $9.34, Hero raises to $24.50, BB calls $15.16

Flop: ($49.00) J 2 K (2 players)
Hero bets $15.83, BB raises to $50, Hero raises to $81.36 all in, BB calls $31.36

Turn: ($211.72) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($211.72) 3 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $211.72
Hero shows A A (two pair, Aces and Threes)
BB shows J J (a full house, Jacks full of Threes)
BB wins $209.22
(Rake: $2.50)


fishies

Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN: $115.79
SB: $105.42
Hero (BB): $390.48
UTG: $86.92
MP: $109.14
CO: $125.94

Pre Flop: ($1.50) Hero is BB with Q A
2 folds, CO raises to $3, 1 fold, SB calls $2.50, Hero raises to $14.50, 1 fold, SB calls $11.50

Flop: ($32.00) Q J 3 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $15.81, SB calls $15.81

Turn: ($63.62) 5 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $91.07, SB calls $75.11 all in

River: ($213.84) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $213.84
SB shows 9 9 (a pair of Nines)
Hero shows Q A (a pair of Queens)
Hero wins $211.34
(Rake: $2.50)


I actually havnt had many big pots at all, my wtsd is only like 23 from 27 so im folding a ton with bad runouts etc.

gl

In before 20 stack downswing then 40bi heater...curious does the D stand for MaxDownswing?

Playing journal entry:

11/3/17 – For the first session in many (since previous 10bi upswing) I felt like I played quite well. I didn’t once get frustrated with my own plays and any opponents. I guess in some ways I was disappointed to lose yet again, and continual stacks, but im happy I had the discipline to stop when at -5bi. Now, im at my peak downswing period of -47bi and -33 in ev. I really do hope it doesn’t get worse. But, now after a great session with Darrell today, I felt great afterwards knowing im making particular errors that are costing me money. So now that I know exactly what to do I need to have the self control to do it. I have not implemented my checklist for warming up and assessing whether im mentally ready to play. Inspite of results I feel im heading in the right direct.

Journal entry

12/3/17 – Poker is a ****ing brutal game, my god. Im on horrendous downswing and last two sessions ive been playing very well with no spew that’s super blatant. Im literally running KK into AA, AA vs sets in 3b pots blab la bla. My BR has taken a huge hit and only like $5.8k or something so im going to move back down to 50z. I don’t feel any shame in doing this. I just need to regain more confidence and plug leaks plus study more. I think once I recover like $1k ill move back up. Throughout my session today I was happy I didn’t become frustrated. I did a great weights session and run yesterday and probably contributed to a solid mental state. I want to forget about the financial losses lately and focus on playing each individual hand the best way possible.

How did i see this coming upswing is on the way dw.

+1. Props to the grind! Lots of people refuse to move down stakes when they are on a downswing and go busto. Keep up the work and you'll be back up in no time

Hey man, just checking in. Have been firing a bit of 100z when I'm tired last few weeks and fwiw think you are definitely one of the better players in the pool, and will definitely be winning there.
Hope things turn around soon, variance can be sick.

One thing that helped with my mental game and how unlucky I've been is to actually think about how lucky I really am to be alive every single day to run below EV.


I would say it can't get any worse but I would just be lying so I guess just try and avoid high variance low EV spots and play as best as you can.

GL!

+1

Have played OP fair bit and never saw actually big mistakes. It will turn around at some point.

When you seem to have hard time dealing with variance, why you choose to play zoom?


Zoom is ******ed to play until you hit like 200z minimum, more like 500z. For NL100 rake is so huge, that playing a format that has smaller winrates with little to no RB is stupid.

Obv there is the comoft of clickin on zoom tables instead of bumhunting high RB sites. But for micro to small stakes, the latter is so much more GTO.

I dont want to fully question what your saying but bringing up few points why to play zoom.

1) bigger volume = bigger data to analyze to improve

2) playing more zoom leads to improve game theory faster and more effectively than playing normal tables, making decissions more based on fundamentals and stats, not on some previous dynamics.

3) Max seems to be doing financially well out of poker which makes it imo. more valueable to play formats that give him a higher challenge and better opportunity to improve.

4) Nl100z is not so far from nl200 and part of improving is for most people to put in quite alot of breakeven volume. It might be not the most +EV in money but I think it will pay itself back at some point.

5) OP plays staked which makes the improving even more important compared to making moneys short term.

Yeah most of those are kinda valid points, but comment on few of those.


1) Yeah true, you get faster good sample of your own game. But then again, fixing leaks based on results in databse has always been something I haven't really been fan on. Requires so huge sample for it to be useful.

2) Don't agree at all. Just because you are playing in the same table many orbits you don't need to go all mttreg and 4bet 96s just because the V has 3bet you 3 times in a row. It's still very much the same in that sense. The fact that you don't have big sample on many villains yeah makes it more "anon" and need for good fundamental gameplan is maybe more important, true. Also I'm big advocate of learning off the tables instead of in game. Like do you really get x% better faster by playing 800 hands an hour instead of 400-500?

3) Yeah ok, but even if you like the challange is it better to have the challange to beat small stakes at a bit harder games, or to play more +EV games eariler to get faster to higher stakes and beat them like NL200-400+?

4) My point about the limits wasn't the skill level of certain stake, but the rake. Having 50% RB at <NL100 is a lot better than having 50% RB at NL1k.



When I started getting coaching and started climbing out of the micros, I was adviced to just farm out the high RB sites until I hit NL200, and then you can diversify to lower RB sites like stars etc. This is just because the rake at micros and SS is huge, and if you are able to have 30% extra RB, it can easily transfer into 2-3bb/100 into your bottom line. Which will make variance easier, and enable you to move up faster, which should be the goal. Anyone who is getting coaching from the bosses he is, shouldn't have an endgoal to beat NL100.



These posts weren't meaning to attack anyone. Variance is a *****, and I'm sure OP will make it with the coaching he is getting.

Doctor talking a whole lot of sense here.