Title is from a great song by Semisonic. It might or might not have any bearing on my results this year.

A little about me: I have played poker for more than 25 years now. I sucked really bad the first 10 years. I still suck but not as bad.

You can probably compare me to an athlete who is good in practise, but chokes under pressure. I have this poker mind that among other things tells me to fold in certain spots, but I usually don't listen.

Favourite grind music right now is: Time to pretend by MGMT. I have this on repeat for the whole session.

Goals:
Beat fixed limit 5-10 draw on Pokerstars
I can beat 0.10-0.20 now, not so sure about the others. 1-2 plays pretty similar to 5-10 on Paradise Poker back in the day.

Beat $8 180 mans on PokerStars

Be a winner at NL holdem cash games

Have a healthy bankroll

Today's goal is to win the $30 000 silver star free roll on PokerStars
So I have clear intentions but I will probably skip joining choice center

I wanted a fresh start so at first I wanted to purge my old hands from my HM2 database. Turned out to be much easier to just create a new database. I can proudly say that after 4 hands of $2 no limit I am now a winner at that game

25 years is a long time to consistently be bad, I personally do not think you should have deleted your database because it could of helped you learn more than you think you know already. To not be able to be a winning player after 25 years states a lot without even asking. I am not trying to discourage you but from the limited information you have stated it seems to be a mental issue, there are usually two reasons why a player cannot become a winning player: 1. Technical aspect of the game is lacking 2. Self-created mental barriers cause the player to allow degenerate tendencies to overtake and self-discipline to be ignored. What are you doing different this time around that you didn't do for the last 25 years? Again, I am not trying to discourage you, just trying to open up a dialogue on what may be the cause of not being able to become a winning player over such a vast amount of time. All the best.

Thanks for the input. Now I never stated that I haven't been a winning player during all these years. For example I was a winner at 1-2 draw back in the day. But I have probably never been a long term winner at no limit hold'em cash games.

Anyways like most losing players I like to blame my losses on tilt issues and a lack of self discipline. There is probably some truth to that, but it is no secret that all the games have evolved and if you are no ahead on the learning curve you fall behind.

What I am doing differently this time is that I have resubed to a training site and I have installed tiltbreaker. And I will post a bit here.

Today I learned that when you play a satellite on Full Tilt and 1st price gets a ticket and second place get a ticket you should not assume that they both get a ticket to the target tournament. Still I am lucky that it only cost me 0.50 to find this out

Thought I would show you an interesting hand that I played and I would like to hear your thoughts on it.

My tournament results so far:


My cash results so far:

in $1/micro buyins the heavy majority arent "aware" of much if anything at all. if this isnt a level lol you might wanna severely tighten your opening range(A2 off nowhere in the neighborhood) in early position(EP) especially when youre this deep stacked this early in a tournament for so many reasons. pretty obv youre lacking in patience, need to work on that too. GL

I would agree with you if it was a random sit&go on stars. But this is one that a pokerschool coach runs, so I think it is fair to assume that most o them will be tight fish until proven otherwise.

Playing A2 from ep is a mistake. Raising a bigger mistake. Playing it on the first hand an even bigger mistake.

Your reasoning is flawed. Why are you concerned with trying to get them to fold better hands? Even if your reasoning is correct let's assume. You will be playing a pot out of position in a raised pot dominated with no chance of making any kind of cinch hand unless you hit trip 2's or 2 pair. Are you trying to steal the 45 chips out there?!?

On that flop when you bet out are you expecting much worse to call you? What worse hands can call you and what better hands will stick around? More hands that are ahead right now are going to be in the mix.

On the turn when you get raised you should be concerned. And not betting or calling.

On the river you turn your hand into a bluff, which just doesnt make sense. How many times have you seen players lead the river and fold to a raise?? It happens very seldomly.

Stick to play money instead.

No I am hoping for bb to call and then steal the pot from him on the flop with a c-bet

A flush draw will call. Better aces will also call, mainly AT and AJ, but I expect to be able to get them of their hands with a shove on the river. Many will also peel one card with pocket pairs.


I was concerned, but people do raise on air. When he picked up more equity on the turn I think it is a mistake to raise, since my strong hands that probably would pay him off on the river would raise him out of the pot

I agree with your analysis here.

I hate Ronaldo...

Just a quick look at my graphs so far:
Cash games


Tournaments:

Took most of the evening off to play a fantasy football draft. Thought it would be a snake draft but turned out to be an auction draft. I ended up with dollars left that I never got any value from.

Anyways I just wanted to post how the graphs looks now:

Since I decided to move up to where they respect my raises I think it is time for an update

Graph:


http://imgur.com/a/cS0z3

Stats:

http://imgur.com/a/09rnl

What's the trick to post imgur images? I just get a broken image when I try to post it as an image.

Figured out how to post images. Yay me

I knew I shouldn't have started posting in this thread again

I am switching to Spin & Gos. I have tweeked my ranges a bit, and will do a test run for 30 days. I am starting at the 0.25 buyin, eventhough I am profitable at 1´s but not 0.25's

Here are the results so far. Nothing to write home about really, but better than being down.
If you know of any good material for spin & go's please let me know. Maybe some streamers to watch?

Invested in crEv today. I guess I am betting that it would have taken me more than 300 buyins to figure out how to play Spin & Gos without it

Ffs

The results so far:

400 spins in, it isn't going so well. I guess it is still possible to be due to variance, so no neeed to panic yet

What the **** was this? At those stakes no-one would even fold 2 pair, played like aids from the start.

The hand converter doesen#t work, anyways here is an interesting hand that came up today.

USD Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2017/07/08 10:03:03 CET [2017/07/08 4:03:03 ET]
Table '1963210002 1' 3-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (665 in chips)
Seat 3: EST.Saar (835 in chips)
EST.Saar: posts small blind 15
Hero: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Jd 8d]
EST.Saar: raises 60 to 90
Hero: calls 60

Villian had been tight, I am more interested in flopping a draw than a jack or an eight.
*** FLOP *** [3c 6h 8h]
Hero: checks
EST.Saar: checks

When he checks on the flop I assume he has two overs and no flush draw

*** TURN *** [3c 6h 8h] [4h]
Hero: bets 60
EST.Saar: calls 60

I bet since I believe that I have the best hand
*** RIVER *** [3c 6h 8h 4h] [5s]
Hero: bets 75
EST.Saar: raises 610 to 685 and is all-in

Uh-oh...A flush? But wouldn't he bet on the flop in that case? A seven? still the raise is so big. Many players would like to get value in that spot. I also think most people would bet a set on the flop, and those who don't would probably raise a bit smaller if at all on the river
Hero: calls 440 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (170) returned to EST.Saar
*** SHOW DOWN ***
EST.Saar: shows [Kh As] (high card Ace)
Hero: shows [Jd 8d] (a pair of Eights)
Hero collected 1330 from pot