Cheers for the feedback fishtankz and i think it's time you un-nitted yourself on rivers

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Christ, today was absolutely hideous. Ran soooooo bad i can't even describe. Today is going to be a bad beat selection

vs fish



vs reg:



vs god awful reg. Oh the 2nd one was a heart too btw



vs reg. Awful bet call from me:



vs reg:



Lost a lot today but overall i don't think i could have done a lot about it.

The thing that i'm really trying to work on is a thing called entitlement tilt. This is something i have a lot when playing people that i feel i 'should' be beating, whether that be bad regs or fish. There's a really good section in the MGOP that i'm gunna write out as i'm right in the midst of entitlement tilt right now.

Entitlement tilt happens when something you believe to be rightfully yours has been taken. Winning is a possession that you feel you 'already own'. Soon after, or as losses pile up, tilt sets in and players have thoughts or make statements such as:

- The cards shouldn't matter. I can outplay them
- This guy sucks. How can i possibly lose to him
- I'm too good to allow that to happen
- This guy doesn't even belong at the same table as me
- Other players don't work as hard as i do
- I'm supposed to win against fish
- I have a great track record and do all the right things
- I work harder, I'm better. How the **** can i be losing here?!

The real problem with entitlement tilt isn't that you believe you are a better player than your opponents. In many cases, that's probably true. The real problem is that you believe being a better player means you should never lose.

Whilst not all of the above applies to me (especially some of the ridiculous comments like 'i'm too good to allow that to happen' I definitely get the sense that particularly with certain fish or regs i react negatively when losing a hand to them.

That's something that definitely happened today and may have caused me to make 1 or 2 bet calls that i wouldn't ordinarily make. Even though they can be semi excused i think it's important to take responsibility for my actions so as to try cut it out all together.

Feeling a little less tilted now which is what i was hoping to achieve by writing this.

In other news we destroyed a team 15-3 last night. Also i'll be starting at my new placement with 3 clients next friday. Really excited. Also booked our house in malta which looks super sick - special thanks to teh time stone for hooking me up

Back at it to try get out this mini ds tomorrow.

glgl

Don't think AKo is bad per se, if he has a bluffing range in this spot it's very easy for him to be overbluffing by quite a significant amount (T9+T8 is 32 combos alone, if he starts bluffing JT...).

hmm, i'm not sure i agree. I don't think that the average 200nl reg will be overbluffing here, i'd say underbluffing is far more likely. Losing to all combos of QT that he plays this way alongside having all QT myself plus blocking both ace and king, all leads to my hand not being good any where near enough of the time to call in my opinion.

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Ran totally awful today but felt i played A game throughout. Don't think i lost too much even running as bad as i did which is a good sign.

Reg playing extremely weird. Should probably fold on a king but once i got x/r i decided i didn't wanna fold



interesting hand vs same reg. thoughts please. I 3b a reg to start with. Note that we are a tad deep:



glgl

Rep set have set probably. It's a good bluff with tt-jj but does he really cold call 3bs in the bb with JTs? Seems bad. He can't really have that presumably so it's qq a lot and probably tt or jj as a bluff but you gotta estimate the frequency. It's a nice line with AK to fold chops. A bold reg could try this with aq too...

I feel like your line is kind of face upish. Which makes it more of a fold or call dpnding on reads. I'd probably betfold flop since my range has so much protection I don't think they can autobluff. then I'd probably try to nit down as cheap as possible. If I knew I wanted 2 streets and IP I'd go flop and turn for sure b/c/b too transparent

I try to avoid thin value spots against good smart agro thinking tough regs where I can almost never have the nuts and they can because then they put you in this spot. That might be okay if you wanna play the he knows that you know game but I'm not a fan. With all that said don't mind a call

could we check river?

Just realized i have entitlement tilt as well particularly when yada or ponty are at my table...

re the bolded bits. I agree he can have QQ JJ TT here a lot and also think he can have JT/9T/QJ sometimes. Also wrt the 'nice line to fold out chops' this is true but it's also something that a relatively average reg would do as they think 'oh he can never call AK or AA here'. The danger of that ofc is that if you are not perceived as a very good reg you kinda end up getting owned by thinking players. fwiw i think checking back this flop with entire range is good.

The second bit about avoiding thin value spots is just the wrong way to look at things in my opinion. This is something smb taught me - i would always say that i would weak fold and not 3b certain +ev situations because 'they're just gunna outplay me'. He made me realise that in actual fact by taking weaker/small ball/not the +ev line you are actually costing yourself a lot more money long term than playing to the best of your knowledge. Something to think about!

yeah we definitely could, but then how would we ever induce spazz



hahaha i know the feeling

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Well today was kinda sick. I ran actually pretty much the nut worst possible for the first 1200 hands of my session then i found the inner strength to continue to play absolute A-game and reall put my mental game work to practice. Fortunately it paid off. Naughty graph look below...



Really horrible spot to have to bluff but didn't think i had any choice. At rock bottom of range, don't block FD's etc. Shame i got kinda owned:



value towning the hell out of myself vs fish:



vs fish :s



Thoughts on this one please. vs std reg:



v enjoyable one vs fish:



Played a bit of hu too. Main big pot:



vs same guy:



That'll do. Definitely will not be playing again today. Will go out and do something. glgl

It's beer o'clock!

im guessing you dont have notes/read on his turn tendencies? you often post those tough/leveling spots where we kinda perceived villain to overbluff but he may be aware of this so he may 'underbluff' (or not) and at this point having a diamond or not doesn't even matter (anyway both have merits), I think it's about your read/dynamic with the player and your instincts. vs average reg at 200 and under i like to fold when its close ish.

was very nice to not be grinding although today was worse...

I mean i do have relatively good reads on opponents but that still means people deviate from their normal way of playing and that's why i like to get general feedback from an unknown perspective. Appreciate what you're saying though, maybe i'll put more stats on villains so you guys have similar info to me.



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Jesus, the sessions i'm having at the moment are just out of control. I've checked my results several times the last few days to see what's been going on. I'm gunna post my past ~6 sessions. Total mayhem

Today (1)


Today (2)








As you can see i've been playing sooo many hours and so many hands. My vpp count for the month is out of control already. I'm definitely playing too much but only because i've felt +ev and able to grind out the hole.

Out of control turn vs reggy fishy thing:



Stubborn bet call vs fish:



hahaha amazing hand vs first hand whale who was jumping around tables:



Really hoping that tomorrow is a more chilled day...

gl

Well today was a complete and utter demolition. Ran the nut worst in every spot. Oh and i also thought it would be a good idea to take another sermi shot at HU Even though i definitely am not a good hu player, i can't help but feel that every time i play i just get so horrifically coolered. Was a lot of fun and felt very challenged while playing but it resulted in losses.

This was the main pot i lost hu, nothing else really happened bar having the worst hand most the time/getting outplayed most the time:



Sigh spot vs reg reiso and MONSTER whale:



Another awful spot. Would have just folded to the regs shove (even though there was so much dead money) but fish just juices up a side for the ultimate rinse:



Getting max value from fish:



I very much wanna forget about todays grind!

Today was insanely swingy. Felt i played A game first session then B game 2nd. Prob lost some money today.

vs reg. this should be illegal:



vs big fish. He donked pot in every 3b pot i didn't know what else to do. I guess i could fold:



sigh vs reg:



first hand vs whale:



A nice hand vs the 66 fish:



Got my induction day for my new placement tomorrow so won't be grinding the day. Looking forward to it!

gl

That HU hand you posted yesterday was pretty brutal. Though I wouldn't get too worried about the coolers, they will even themselves out over time. Plenty of edge to be gained elsewhere when HU.

I noticed you were on a 600 table earlier when I logged on so took a peak. Didnt see any action but I was shocked that I recognised a few of the regs who are usually at my tables.

Gl

Yeah i know you're right of course! I will be steering clear of HU though

haha, the 600fr tables are the same as 400 really. The main difference being that a lot of the 600-1k 6max regs play there (ktclubs etc) which makes life horrible.

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Had my induction at the placement yesterday which was really good. The university and it's facilities are just unbelievable and as staff i really get the opportunity to utilse them all.

Poker was just awful today. Lost so much. Didn't have the to regrind either. Definitely got to the point where my patience has been worn very thin and i'm struggling to find a way to re-motivate myself. These phases tend to happen pretty frequently (this is my 3rd 100k+hand b/e or losing stretch this year)

vs reg:



Looking at the hands from today, i really played badly. Definitely have been somewhat broken by the variance over the past couple weeks.

Undecided if i'll play again today, probably should but got very little motivation.

Games will be better after the main. Run better Bena.

Teh goat haz spoken

Thanks for the support bro, games were pretty good tonight tbf.

haha, makes me feel like everything is gunna be alright

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Been a really busy weekend with birthdays and packing so only had time to put in 3 and a half hours all weekend. Nice to take it easy but also felt a little anxty with knowing how things have been going the past couple weeks. The flat was a total bombsite earlier - we're not moving out until the 9th of october but cus my gf works such long hours + we got commitments next weekend, we had to get most of it done today. I don't think i mentioned it in here but we don't know when our move in date is (the people living there are having a house boat built and it could be any time up until christmas before we move in... Will have to crash at friends houses for a couple months - should be an adventure to say the least! Hoping it won't affect my grind schedule too much although it'll be impossible for it not to some degree.

Poker was better today, i played less tables, thought about decisions way more as a whole and game selected hard.

vs recreational and reg:



vs fairly aggro reg. Kinda unsure as to what my play otr should be. Stats: 27/19/10, flop x/r 4%, wwsf 44%, w@sd 53%:



Pretty nuts hand vs fish:



gl!

Hey Ben, hope the games are good today! Wish you the best of luck, by the way have a question about this hand, can you tell me your thought process on flatting the 4bet with Q9? Keep it up!

vs recreational and reg:

fairly agg reg
Stats: 27/19/10, flop x/r 4%, wwsf 44%, w@sd 53%:

seems like an animal based on these stats

teh thought process is called POT ODDS. You welcome




FYP!

Stats: 27/19/10, flop x/r 4%, wwsf 44%, w@sd 53%

more std stats ever? 3bet is high

Both showdown stats are v low. If u only win 53%;at sd u want to win abit moar than 44% wsf at least if u want to make money...

his x/r % is very low compare to his overall stats.

wwsf 44 and w@sd 53% looks really standard.

having a higher wwsf would be bad

Ya agreed... winning more pots Is always a bad thing.