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Originally Posted by MikeStarr
Something seems weird with this graph. Dont you play 2/5? If Im reading it correctly, you were up about $29,000 after 1200 hours? That's about $24/hr. Not bad but nothing crazy good either. That's not the weird thing though.
I dont think as a moderate winner, I would be calling multiple $1000+ blind shoves unless I had really good hands. What did you call with? If Im a $20-$25/hr winner Im probably not calling those huge blind shoves without knowing I have a pretty big equity advantage. Im not waiting for AA/KK but Im also not calling with with hands like rag aces or QJs just because that's ahead of a random hand.
You lost about $11000 in 100 hours? Even accounting for the -$5500 you mentioned (which is huge but an outlier Im sure), you still lost another $5500 in less than 100 hours. That's 11 100BB buy ins on top of the other losses.
Something seems amiss. Im guessing there was some serious tilt in there? I dont know anyone who has lost 11 buy ins without some serious tilt/bad play mixed in. Im not picking on you. Ive been on a bad run myself and I know Ive made some subpar tilt plays, but somewhere near 5 buy ins, most people need a serious wake up call / self evaluation.
All good questions. His first blind shove I had AJo and it was for about 900. His 22 held. I had 2500 on the table. (Very deep but I had gone down 1000 and rebought and got back to even.) next shove I had KQo and his 97 held. I bought in another 1000 and called in CO with A7. His AA held.
I asked another good player about it and he said it’s printing money. I think the lesson for me is to max this out at $500 a pop. You don’t have to believe this, but I really didn’t tilt like you think.
One of the variables is I started buying in for 200bb once I got comfortable. (Maybe hour 900?) And we get a decent amount of regs who match the big stack (our 2/5 can match the big stack). I was also playing very nitty in the beginning and wasn’t getting paid off as much later on. So I’ve been trying so loosen up in spots. So really its like I’m playing a 5/10 or higher depending on who shows up.
Here is an example of mini-tilt. ($900 effective). Button fish on a heater limps, SB completes and I make it $30 with AJ. Flop A
K
J
I bet $45 and he raises to $180. I consider he’s a rec and instead of folding I reraise thinking he has a lot of A
X
. We get it in and He shows Q
10
and the A
on the river slow rolls me. Now I’d like to think the money got in on the river, but it didn’t and I should’ve folded.
I’ve also seen an uptick in super aggressive players putting you to the test for stacks.
If nothing else, I agree that I’m not great and need to improve. I’m also buying in for $500 now and trying to reset this month.
Marsh