Martin, please stop posting these setup coolers ******ed hands where you did not make mistake but stupid villain hit his 2outer. It just tilts you and it takes your passion to poker imho..and yes, these hands happens.. it sucks a lot to lost like 350bb pot to 1 outer, or 2 outer, but pffff. it happens, s*** happens.
it will happend with you on lucky side too once btw

it sucks when ******s keep hiting their 2outers etc against you, but you know what? **** off, lets play some volume, do not care about results, crush them! omg you are crusher, do not forget it!!! GL and hope you will be back fast! if you want to talk, or whatever, skype is possible

Hey guys,

So my 2+2 ban ended and just thought I would drop in with a quick update to say how things are going. Its fair to say there has been a complete turn around in how things were before to how they have been for the last week.

I had a session with Elliot on Thursday just after banning myself from 2+2, the session went really well and we covered a lot of stuff and a lot of the self sabbotage stuff and then I can honestly say apart from the last hand I played on the Friday where I spewed off 300 bbs I have played some really solid poker.

I have been checking results as little as possible and managed to only see how I were doing a couple of times in the last 7 days. This is work in progress and I want to get to the stage where I only check once every 7 days or so just so I can go over hands and things but I can still do that without checking results as well.

Heres the results since when I redeposited up to today. The X marks my session with Elliot and the full results and then the results from that day are also shown.



My posts on 2+2 are going to be kept to a minimum because as much as I enjoy posting on here the bad far outweighs the good and as soon as I start posting bad beats I dont do myself any favours at all. Ive contemplated banning myself again but will see how it goes.

Poker wise Ive just been concentrating on making good decisions and this is my main focus and hopefully I can continue to improve on that and the rest of the stuff will take care of itself.

Welcome Back!

Not sure what all the fuss was about ... because when you cut out the nonsense you are a decent player.

Welcome back.

this so much.

stick with elliott too imo, he works wonders by the look of it.

Nice one Mart, we are here for you mate!

Thanks guys.

Just a quick update from the last 7 days. Im now playing NL25 6max Zoom. Its been going pretty well apart from a couple of wobbles. I seem to be getting a hang of how the games are playing now.

Im trying to do a bit more work on my game through HEM as well and have come up with a few reports and filters that can help me do that so im hoping to do regular reviews of my game to see the areas that I think I can improve.

On that note if someone knows reccomended Win Rates by position for 6max I would appreciate any ideas when it comes to that as it would be good to get some numbers to compare to.

Anyway thats it for now, had another good session with Elliot tonight and I still feel Im progressing although in the past I might have beaten myself up because I probably wanted an instant cure which obviously isnt possible but we keep pulling up issues and working on them. Some of the issues seem deep ingrained in me but I still feel I will gradually get there over time. One step at a time I am very hopeful together we can beat all my little issues related to Poker.

Graph from last 7 days:-

Woaw, that's like your biggest month ever volume-wise isn't it haha?

What kind of roll do you have to be playing $25nl ?

Not quite ever, I used to do 80K+ hands on a regular basis when i used to play NL100 but probably my most volume in the last 2 years without a doubt. That is the one big plus the Zoom tables have over the normal ones.


At moment hovering at about $310 but at one point I just thought to myself I have to move up because I wasnt bothered about losing the money which maybe contributed to me spewing so I started on about 6 and just took a few shots like last time.

Pretty tiny update but had a bit of result yesterday realizing that I had $50 in a old rakeback account that i had so transferred that to my Stars account so I think im nearly up to 20 buyins. I were going to deposit some more money just to pad my roll to maybe help me in not checking my results but it has been going quite well so I have been thinking about purchasing Yourdooms playing from the blinds series but still undecided.

I must say that I am enjoying playing 6max rather than FR. A lot of it seems the same but on the whole i just get the feeling that the majority of players are a lot more spewy than their FR counterparts. I do think the flip side of that when moving up is that maybe the better players are better but hopefully we will get the chance to see that.

I'm happy to see you back again. GL!

Just read A LOT of this thread, my it was painful. So glad I stuck it out to see that you have got to a "good place" right now. Well done Sir. GL.

Great to see u feeling better about things mate. I saw u on the zoom tables the other day but i went scuttling back to FR before long!

LOL, I still get a weird feeling when seeing 2+2r's at the table, I see rapidesh sometimes, he is nitting it up , also chocobo is it?

Welcome, thing to remember, sometimes Mart uses this thread just to vent, he knows full well the strategy involved. He is a class player. I have no problem with the occasional blow up, happens to us all.

Omg, for sure, if you read all this you can see Mart can play for sure. Some mega tilt issues to sort, thread title very misleading! Really happy for OP if can get it sorted (especially for his girlfriend's sake!!).

Thanks guys. Still pretty much up and down at the moment like the last few days I had dropped about 12 buyins pretty quickly. On the whole most of the buyins there wasnt much that I could do but admitedly they were a small number that were spews.

Had a really great session with Elliot last night where he reiterated quite a few things that in my mind I know but its always good to hear it from someone else. theres still pockets of emotion in my game and if i am honest most of them are caused by myself doing stupid things or misapplying things but I do feel we are going a long way to reducing them.

Learning a new game has caused a few hiccups as well but Im hoping it will just click eventually but miracles dont happen overnight and they come because of good old fashioned hard work at the tables and away from the tables. I am enjoying poker more than I were hence my volume this month of just over 60K hands but just need to cut some things out.

I purchased the playing from the blinds series and to be honest Im only 3 videos in but the videos have already opened my eyes to a few things in regards to how the 6max games are playing. Little stuff like 3betting AQ where I have been flatting and even a few posts ago I can be seen mentioning how light people are calling me. A lot of it probably is the fall out from playing FR so long in that my value 3bet range hasnt really changed that much when in fact it can be quite a bit wider due to how wide people are calling. Like in the last couple of days I could have posted bad beat stories where people called my 3bet with J5s and A4o along with 45s all of which I lost a stack and then someone stacking off with AQ against my Ak(Q on the flop ldo lol), I wont bore you with anymore details but just trying to show examples of how bad some of the play is.

At the moment though my main aim is to iron out these glitches and hopefully can then think about moving up and things running a bit smoother.

How you enjoying 6 max compared to FR so far Martin ?

my transition to 6 max has hardly got off the ground to having virtually no time to play poker at the moment.

I think ive played around 3k hands of 6 max at $10nl in over a month.

With a bankroll of over $730 im tempted to not bother with $10nl and just have a go at $25nl.

And the switch to 6 max is partly due to me not wanting to mass table anymore, the idea that i could play only 6 tables of FR at $25nl seems like a viable alternative.

I like 6max. I have to admit some of my spew probably comes from impatience at times and as we know at FR you have to be very patient. Its a very simple game that at times I over complicate by doing goofy stuff.

Theres more players playing 6max as well which I guess means theres going to be a lot more bad players and i like the fact that players go too far with weak holdings quite often. Im not saying they dont do that at FR but at FR Zoom those players are of lesser numbers. I were forever whineing that at FR when facing a raise its always the nuts and 9/10 it is but at 6max so far I would say its almost half and half between bluffs and value and people are choosing terrible spots to raise.

Ive no plans to move back to FR in the near future and am going to stick it out and see if I can make a go of it in these games.

I think 6max will suit your game more than FR.

Let us know what you think of the Playing the Blinds series when you've been through the whole thing. I have a couple of questions regarding it if you don't mind:

1) How applicable do you think it would be to FR? I know in theory that there should be no difference in terms of FR and 6max when get to these positions but .......we all know there is.

2) What kind of 3bet% do you think you'll have from the blinds v steals when you are finished with it?

I'm working on my resteals at the moment and I have a figure in mind that I want to achieve. I've actually written down a range of hands to force myself to get more aggro here. Obviously I don't stick to it rigidly though.

Yeah I will certainly give you a run down of the series when i have finished with it. So far Im about 3 videos in and like I say it has opened my eyes to a few things.

I know the series says it is for FR as well as 6max but I think there would be some adjustments needed when it comes to profiling villains. Like in FR unless it was extreme circumstances then I wouldnt dream of 3betting say JJ/AQ for value against an EP raise where as at 6max this is a lot more common because of the wider opening and calling ranges. So things like that would have to be adjusted for but a lot of the talk so far has been about CO/BTN steals and talk of 30%+ ranges which you will still get at FR so I think there is going to be a lot of it applicable to both games.

Ive always found myself pretty passive in the blinds which is something I need to work on because you just cant afford to play like that against decent players.

Taking it slowly trying to digest the Playing From The Blinds series and so far Im about 5 videos in now. The videos are very short in length which is perfect for my attention span and straight to the point and easy to understand. So far I have had my eyes opened about some things that I were doing that wernt great and the results so far although only about 9K hands have been pretty good.

Im still feeling the need to check results but mainly it has been after my session has finished which is an improvement even if it is a slight one. That seems to be one habit that is going to take some breaking, some of the other bad habits seem to be going on the back burner, like a lot of my FPS BS has been cut out and I can only think of maybe a couple of instances where I made plays I probably shouldnt have in the last week or so. Im also not going too far with hands against villains who I dont think have a fold button which has cost me a lot recently.

Oh and Elliot, you will be pleased to know that I am playing some bloody good poker this week after our last session and a few of the home truths that were spoken. Honestly I feel im playing some of my best poker at the moment and moving forward and hopefully we can keep moving forward from here. this has actually raised a couple of issues and there will be setbacks but sometimes you have to take a step back to take 2 steps forward.

Decided I would shot take NL50 and it went well for about 1K hands where I was up about 4 buyins. From there its gone down hill as I quickly dropped 6 buyins without really putting a foot wrong. Flushes vs FH`s, TP+Nut FD against sets, Bottom straight against mid straight and nut straight on the flop. I really have to call BS on the people posting graphs with no sharp dips in them because theres no way you can play this game and not have them unless you are simply folding to every single raise unless you have the nuts and just not putting money in the pot without the best hand.

When its going well it always seems too good to be true and my next big downswing is just around the corner no matter what i do. Would love to know how these guys playing variance free poker manage it.