So far running well in this early morning session, lost KQQ96ds to wide ranges but won a dsKK763 against them and more than compensated for the earlier loss. Correctly folded the nut straight on the flop in a big pot too where I limped EP tried to back iso the fish but everyone called. Feeling like I’m finding my mojo again. Dumbo’s got his groove back!! Gotta keep up this positive momentum.

Up $3,374 in 10 hours…let’s go! Felt like the good old days of easy run good money again.

Got plenty of sleep, over 10 hours, now lattes and music (alanis morisette, "crazy," madonna, "love profusion," "erotica," nelly furtado, "I'm like a bird," above and beyond, "alchemy," rihanna, "what now," dido, "hurricanes"), phil galfond, exercise...thinking extra jumping jacks today to really get the cardio going, maybe some stretching too.

Has anyone read corey mikesell's plo5 pamphlet? Just wondering if it's worth $197, seems steep next to some alternatives (ahem...). looked for reviews and did not find any.

Someone last night congratulated me on my big score and asked if I was the person on 2+2 who won $70,000 a month this year...lol rumors are funny. I really wish.

I can feel the frustration dissipating session by session as I book wins, tilt is like a sickness slowly getting better and the medicine is rungood. Going to really focus on preserving this momentum and play disciplined, after my session yesterday I remembered how much happier I am when winning and really don't want to go back to that dark place again so I'll do everything I can not to. I remember this winning reg was criticized by another player for playing too tight a long time ago and his response was "I don't want to lose." Totally makes sense to me now. Playing tighter preflop definitely helps reduce the losses.

Looks like I'll sell another strat guide soon which always helps too.

Taking lower variance lines pre today, AAK82ss flatted as did with AKKQ7ds. Found easy folds on the flops. (Would have won at showdown potentially if I iso’d and gotten it heads up but that was far from guaranteed.) Feeling like my mental game is back where it needs to be after a couple wining sessions finally. Winning so far today as well. This is really nice.

Winning at poker is also great for my mental health. That’s worth a lot. Reducing the losses is really important. If this spell has taught me anything it is that not exacerbating the runbad with play bad is absolutely essential to my wellbeing.

As a massive nit, it has always been my theory that if you have two completely opposite methods (one very low variance and one very high variance) that produce somewhat-in-the-ballpark ~same-ish results, that you'd be far better off taking the low variance route... as most humans suck terribly at dealing with high variance routes.

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I’m honestly not sure whether some of my massive scores this year would have been possible had I not pushed the envelope preflop and taken higher variance lines at times. I bet winrates are higher with higher variance but downswings are bigger as well.

Which you prefer depends on your personality and risk tolerance really. Some people are “go big or go home” and others want easy, steady money with little stress. Come to think of it, that probably describes the difference between many hold em players and plo players pretty well. Some are willing to take bigger risks to win more while others want less risk in exchange for lower returns. Plo players buy bitcoin and hold em players buy CDs?

Funny because I probably fall in between as most of my investments are in the stock market which has considerable short-term volatility but overall long term positive returns. (And no crypto.)

Up $4,300 today when the game broke. gonna wrap up soon just want to reset my sleep schedule a little more. AA v. AA all in pre was the biggest one against super aggro action player on tilt.

Obviously I am ecstatic. Helped to see family and doggos the other day and recenter and remember what’s important in life.