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Originally Posted by ramabranch
Having seven losing sessions in a row (and more too) is probably a thing when playing massive SCOOP fields and firing 109s, 215s, etc.
Yeah for sure, guess i'm not used to it after sunrunning the low variance schedule
18/04/21 Session SCOOP day 8
Bricked the lot again unfortunately but we got a sweat for tomorrow!
Its like 80k up top, so hopefully i can make a deep run! Just need to make sure that i don't play like a pussy and take all good spots.
Hand
Overall i thought i played pretty good today, but there was 1 spot that i thought i made a big mistake.
However the more i look into it, the more i like my bluff. In game i just thought he's going to have 2 pair a lot of the river, and he might even make some loose calls with QJ/QT type hands, so we don't get that many folds.
But now i think i like it more, ONLY because its against CO open, so he can have a lot of weak Kx that folds by river. I think this bluff sucks against an earlier position open.
1 other thing is i think my flop cbet is meh. The interesting think with A9, is CO doesnt fold AQ-AT, but then does fold A8-A3, so it doesn't really achieve that much, so if there's any A i should check i think its this, then bet the lower ones more.
Also i know flop is multiway but BB is dead money in my eyes
Obviously got to run a little sim.
IP betting strat:
OOP mixes some bigger betting, but mainly checking. Once IP is checked to you can see that A9 does some betting, but it bets at higher freq with the lower Ax for reasons that i stated prior. In game i think pop will be much more equity driven and bet most Kx, QT type hands then check more often with 33-55, 76s/65s, 97s.
OOP response vs b30:
You can see that some A7s-A9s actually float vs bet. But overall a clear block of folds from Axo, std connectors and some Qx. More just posted so you can visualise turn.
T turn IP strat:
Can see our A9/A8 type hands give up on turn and again we opt for the weaker Ax, and theres a VERY good reason for this.
OOP response vs b70:
BLOCKING FOLDS. J9o is literally the only offsuit fold, but it makes up a big part of the combos, so its really important that we don't block folds. Also J6s-J9s is v important not to block. Plus those weaker Ax fold out the dominating bigger Ax like A6-A9. Also very interesting to note that Kx should start folding turn here without fd. Because of this we want to be careful on rivers as villains range will be very strong. If in game we think pop calls too much Kx on turn, then we can obviously bluff a bit more on river.
8 IP river strat:
Interesting to note that weaker Ax mainly gives up, and 33-55, 65s/76s are used as bluffs. The reason is very similar to turn.
OOP river response vs jam:
OOP is folding AJo/ATo, this is massive! And its really important for IP to unblock these hands, hence why it chooses the unintuitive bluffs, as they have really good unblocking properties.
Also want to note that these 33-55 bluffs are really effective because on turn they fold out better PPs and river they do a really good job of unblocking folds.
Takeaways:
- Unintuitive flop strategy for IP. Checking quite a lot of top pairs, betting weaker Ax, 65s, 33-55 type hands.
- Unblock folds with bluffs!! applies to turns and rivers. Especially important on rivers where we want to be quite selective with bluffs.
- On boards with 3 BW, top pair/weak kicker is quite weak and will often have to fold or take passive lines. This is moreso the case vs condensed ranges (not vs BB basically )
Tilt/Rage
Not gonna lie i literally exploded part way through the session. Usually bad beats don't set me off, its more when someone makes a bad play and i lose as a result of that. Obviously the rational response is I want people to make bad plays, as that makes me money, but i'm not exactly being rational when i'm tilted. Also i'm sure most MTT grinders will know, every so often you have this 20-30min period where all the sick beats and **** you get in a session come in this 1 block, and its a real test of mental fortitude, unfortunately today i lost the mental game really really hard.
I know the moment it happened, i just took a sick beat in the 530, then 1 min later i played this hand against another reg, not gonna show his name because i know who he is, and cba with potential drama:
I mean its clearly a cooler, and i definitely should've sized up flop/turn myself so i hardly played it well. But villains preflop/flop line is so bad, and shows such a lack of understanding of the game. So in game i'm thinking i have the literal nuts, as sets i don't expect to lead flop and given my reads on this player might even 3bet flop, and 86 might not even raise turn. so i exploded once i saw this at showdown. If he just 3bets pre and fires off it wouldn't bother me anywhere near as much. But hey ho good for him, he certainly played a big pot with big hand.
So if you want to tilt me, just take a really bad line and stack me somehow, op strats.
Obviously i don't like tilting to this extent, more than anything it just makes me a shitty person to be around, and from past experiences i know how it makes other people feel, and that makes me feel really really bad. But i can't help it.
I've been like this for the longest time, and i tried to figure out why. I don't think its because of the money, but that might be bs because obviously a sick beat in 530 will bother me more than 5.50, same with a terrible play. However after the session i'm not really bothered by the financial loss i've taken, especially now that my roll is really beefy and i know i can afford the loss (unlike at times in the past). I think its mainly that i ****ing hate losing, more than anything, since i've been this way well before poker, in my tennis days i broke multiple rackets, in my xbox days i broke controllers, in my LoL days i broke mice/keyboards, and even when i played microstakes i broke a monitor. Obviously if you hate losing, then poker is not the best game to play, but saying that i can still hate losing, i just need to find a different way to channel it.
As for how i'm going to try and improve/sort this out, i'm not going to go to a mental game coach. I've had mental game coaches in the past, i think they're very good, but my issues are much deeper rooted and i don't think they have to appropriate knowledge required to help me to the extent i need. I actually decided a while ago, that once i move out of where i am currently (middle of nowhere) and into a city (should be soon), i'm going to hire a therapist, or something like this, and just start working with them to figure out what's going on, and start to work on it, as it'll definitely be a long process. Also it seems kind of wild to be that even more expensive therapists are cheaper than a lot of mental game coaches.
The only thing that slightly worries me, is i feel like my motivation is sourced from a similar place to the tilt/rage, which is hating losing, i try to be as good as possible so i dont lose. Evidence of this is i hop into the lab much quicker after a losing session than a winning one. So i worry that if i take that emotion out then i'll just become a bit bland and not really care at all, which can be bad. But maybe this is just dumb, i'll find out.