very good job friend

Sickk 500z graph lad

thanks max!

aw <3 you get your rebate soon lad <3

whale tag iirc

hahaha

stop using my thread for advertising scumbag

niiiice one lad!

ah cool! that is weird that it's not in my results

cheers darrell. kings day this year?

lmfao, we'll miss you lad



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Played some 5k today, won 50bb! then lost some back at normal games



vs the table rec. red sky at night





vs juice rec



my flop spice getting correctly punished



bazzam vs reg



vs reg pretender. dat flop call tho



flop nut, make check, get paid



hu hand



reg going thin pre



Seeing clients tomorrow but may play a bit in the evening. Got a must win match tomorrow night too, huge sweat.

glgl

Ha, nice reference.

lmao that KTs, where do you find these guys?

Really cool to see you shotting the big boy games Ben, hopefully it all works out.

Those 25/50 hands must get the pulse level going

Casually shotting 20x normal stakes and crushing lol. WP! Don't punt it back at 500z :P

Are u psychologist or psychiatrist ?

OP is a fkn Psycho

psycho or schizo ?xaxa
I would also like to hear your opinion about emdr

I´m guessing you´re among the biggest winners at Zoom 500 and still you managed to break even over a wopping 300,000 hands.

GG Online Poker.

Yeah I noticed that as well...

@Ben do you attribute this BE stretch to something along the lines of "that was bcak when I was a fish still" - i.e. I'm guessing there's been a decent skill increase over this sample?

Mentally I can't imagine it was too fun grinding out 300k hands and getting no where... :s

Just for clarification, I´m talking about breaking even in terms of EV (hands 150,000 to 450,000 - you may have won the odd $2,000, but you get my point).

The "back when I was a fish" still somehow had 10bb/100 for 150k hands at the start.

Like tbh I think it's always easy when on heaters for people to look at other graphs and be like "it's not possible to BE for this long and play good" etc. I think part of it comes down to the subconscious telling the person it cant happen to them. Variance is actually stupidly sick when you look at it, I know I've been guilty of burying my head in the sand when running good and thinking bad stretches aren't possible "if I keep playing this well" but it's just bs.

Can just be some serious lol variance mixed with not playing as well during downers which is the case for pretty much everyone.

Like I think this is why mental game is so so important, I don't think many people could drag themselves out of bed 200k hands in this breakeven stretch and tell themselves it's going to be fine, so much negative energy would have been stirred up over this time through bad habits it would likely be Gg.

Anyway, interested to hear your thoughts, sorry for the ramble

Variance of this kind isn't a new thing.

This is a good post. It took 7 years but when I'm "crushing" I now remind myself to enjoy the good runs/good times while it lasts b/c the next 100k b/e might begin tomorrow. When it comes - it always does - only thing to do is focus on getting the best table selection and keep grinding thru. I also think it's natural for people to work harder on their game in the bad times and look for spots to improve in. (And during the good times to just show up make x buyin and think, wow this is easy).

Also @meale you should hope this happens to you one day. Just means you've played this silly game long enough for it to happen!

Really highlights the importance of BRM when you're starting out as well. Bena's clearly an accomplished player where such a stretch is actually only break-even, whereas a less experienced player could be playing their theoretical "best" poker but could end up on 100k losing stretch.

glad someone rated it!

thanks mate! haha, sometimes they find their way into the pool. gotta run kinda good to find them

haha the 24k pot i had i was legit hiding behind my chair as i shoved river. then blew up celebrated hard

haha, i'm actually neither. My training is in psychotherapy, so less diagnosis, more exploring the dynamics between myself and my client to offer a reflection as to how they operate in the outside world/in their relationships, which in turn leads to grounds for change in their life

As for EMDR, I know very little. My supervisor last year (who i absolutely loved and rated extremely highly) is fully trained/accredited in EMDR and swears by it though. I'm aware that it's perfect for clients who're severely traumatised
but i couldn't tell you any more than that without guessing.

All interesting points and i agree with bits and pieces.

The thing i'd say is to notice that the immediate go-to place is that of, 'oh you broke even for 300k hands, that must've been tough', rather than 'sick that you won at 12bb for 150k hands and then you had a greatly overdue breakeven stretch'.

I suggest that using your overall winrate is the best/easiest way to maintain sanity, rather than looking at graphs (of course i'm guilty for that too cus we obv love looking at sexy graphs).

As a couple people said, variance is a sick beast. I've played this game long enough now, probably like 8-9 million hands lifetime, so i'm pretty desensitised to breakeven/downswing/upswing periods. But don't get me wrong, good mental game is an absolute must in this climate. You'll get eaten alive if you tilt. In 2018 we're gunna swing ridiculous amounts with winrates being lower, players being better and having no rakeback. Just gotta make sure you find that nuclear heat every once in a while

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Made a pretty epic regrind today with delicious volume again. 11 bucka in the bank



orange line says ive run good here, but i don't think it's very fair



sometimes, you just gotta take a stand, and you know what, i respect it



Grimmest spot ever vs good reg. Maybe better to call JT before this combo, who knows



been a while since i did one of these pantsoff's



you can never be too careful



This is the first time this has ever happened. guy show folds A2o lmfao



Busy some of tomorrow but will grind the eve. Already at 35k hands for the month!

Got a few PM's that i'll respond to tomorrow. Sorry for the slow replies, i've been lazy

glgl

11 dorrahs a rotta money

Very sick zoom results!

the sickest thing is that one of the biggest winners in one of the toughest games in the world is very humble. Usually people that achieve that much success are super cocky, I haven't read bena saying someone was bad here even once

gj! gl at the high stakes

Bena says bad stuff all the taing he s a proper d1ckhead irl

LöL at the A2 open fold

safe to assume you were mostly 1 and done in that spot too?

I guess he learned from the best

Back in the day in a tournament on .fr I opened cutoff and bb called and openfolded K77r. I had KK...

did you follow up with the good old "nice fold"