yep.

i am at -$2,511 over the past 51.5 hours.

Tks, just checked out apps on Play store. Poker manager has best reviews and doesn't ask for location permissions (which session logger does), so I think I'll go with that one.

**** sucks sabr but you need to ride out the variance. You been crushing that game for too long.

No time for a break. Each time I go through a stretch like this it builds mental toughness.

Emotionally I feel like I've already bottomed out last night, which gives me a surprisingly refreshing and optimistic outlook right now. Even I have to admit that the last 2 days I've maybe made a couple of plays that were due to tilt, contributing about 1 buy-in to my downswing.

No more tilting, complaining, or getting ****-faced. We grind through it like a man.

Poker income is great for me

rofl.

is true.

Palms in Vegas. I played when they were doing it. Rather advantageous.

I just went through like a 10k downswing at 5/5 and 5/10 (mostly 5/5), took its toll for sure. Taking a break helped a bit, then I just ran ****tier. Grinding through it like a man sounds reasonable, if you're able to control tilt and keep confidence up. I think taking a break can be good just to analyze hands. I know my downswing caused me to make my fair share of awful plays.

I too feel much better about my game after taking a few days off on this vacation. I'm really looking forward to my next session. Sabr is right though, down swings build mental toughness.

There are many ways to tilt. Making spewy plays is obvious, but getting gun-shy and not making a bluff you should be making is also a form of tilt.

My style of poker is very aggressive. If my thin bets, semi-bluffs, and calldowns are running into the nuts all the damn time, things can get ugly really quickly. I also "slowplay" more often than most, which sometimes burns me too when they keep rivering miracles. With my style, the line between perfect play and spew is sometimes very fine.

hi

im new to live poker
what kind of variance can I expect playing live 1/2? are 1000bb downswings usual? 2000bb? At what point would you start to worry that you're doing something wrong?

every time I downswing I think I suck. Everytime I upswing I think I'm the best.

Even on a downswing my HH's say I'm playing optimal. So I still think I'm the best even when I lose lol.

It depends on how big the game plays. A 200bb game where you can buy in for half the biggest stack plays a lot bigger than a 100bb max buy in game. The swings will also be bigger if most people are buying in full rather than short or if people are quite aggressive.

It is better to analyse your decisions, your demeanour and your focus rather than trying to have a scientific reason for why you are losing.

Next time we play (Im playing tomorrow at the garage) I'll show you PJ.



Side note... Miscalculated (hit the button wrong in PJ last night) and I was only down $50 for the night after getting crushed and coolered left and right. In for $420 and that was the first hour (100NL game). That extra $100 feels good.

Won't be at garage tomorrow. Going to a NYE party. Rat-pack themed. I got my short-jacket tux ready to go. Wife got a cocktail dress that is smoking hot. Maybe taking her home early...

I thought of another way to put it last night. Lag variance tends to be, on average, more of a high frequency, low amplitude variance. Lots of little swings in session, and even among sessions. Nit variance tends to be low frequency, high amplitude. Fewer absolute swings, but they are usually big ones.



Re number 2, it was a rhetorical question, I wasn't actually asking you to confirm your income. Sorry it came across
that way. (that said, if you don't want to confirm your income, which is perfectly understandable, it's probably best not to post both your WR and hours played )

In retrospect, I realized my post might sound unsympathetic, which was not my intention. My intention was basically this:

Heh, we know you can beat these guys with one hand tied behind your back. But, why tie one hand behind your back?


Oo-rah.

Speaking of slowplaying, I meant to tell you this the other day: I used the slowplay we talked about on skype--drawing to a brick--the other day in a sesh at the Wynn. Worked like a charm with the added bonus that the aggro button who paid me off went on supreme monkey tilt afterward. I was stuck almost a buy in when I played the hand, and between that hand and the button's tilting after it, I booked a small win.

Definitely buying you a drink if I ever make it to TS, or if you ever make it here.

I lost 5k in a day 2 weeks ago.

Got 2 tickets for driving through GW bridge when I couldn't get over out of ez-pass lane.

Backed my car into a wooden sign and that's going to cost ~1k to fix.

Complaining and drinking does nothing

Because 10 pm is past your bed time?

Sure. Why not.

ugh that's some bad soul-tilt

Get better.

It builds mental toughness in the same way that getting stabbed in the chest builds physical toughness. Right now you're still bleeding.

Session logger uses location to procure a list of nearby rooms

then you can click the room and it keeps track of results by room & stake

I guess that's not very useful though.

I just use a spreadsheet at home, I used session logger for a bit and realized it was kind of pointless (and also a bit of work punching everything in)

Yeah, I keep my loc info turned off. I'm not carrying a tracker around.