aww thanks feel free to point out what you like about this thread, so I can try to include that as often as I can. What a sick day today was, played about 2300 hands but I ran like god, it was amazing and I freakin hope that this never wear off. Ran 4 buyins above EV today and then I even had this sick hand happening to me which does not affect the AIEV that much though. I was deep at a 2/4 table, UTG was the table fish who opened. He opens like 37% UTG, so while we were deep I figured it is a nice idea to isolate him from the others by 3betting him with 8Thh so that I did. However a regular on the button just had to mess with us, 4betting my 3bet (I made it 48 from UTG 12 open) he made it 100. FISH calls, so I felt like YOLOCALLing. Flop came down Qh xh x. Fuarkk, its already 306 in the pot, its checked to the BTN reg who bets 132 or something like that, FISH calls so I'm like, yeah, no I'm going with it. ARRRINNN and prayed to the gods that the fish did not have a higher flush draw as I'm pretty sure I do not have to worry about the regular at all since the queen on board was a heart, meaning that pretty much the only higher flush combo he can have is the AKhh and that I can pull a 6outer on. FISH folds and I'm up against AA and I bink a heart.

Yeah, not sure about my actions anywhere in this hand but it was fun, regular however was probably not pleased. Besides that, which adjusted my allin-EV slightly upwards due to pot odds I ran above EV with 400bb.... sickening, a fish had TT against my AT on ATx and lost and a bunch of similar "cooler situations" that I was fortunate to avoid by sucking out.

All this godmoding I sadly ended up about break even, tilted a bit against a fish HU and ran into aces on one of my first hands this morning on 2/4 when i 5betjammed A4dd in the sb vs a regular on the btn.

This is gonna look ugly on my giraffe and yeah, I know I'm not supposed to take a peak on my winnings or giraffe but I just had to after this loltastic session. I actually know now how it is to be durrrr, truly.

Played another 1400 hands, played real bad/tilty for no reason. I need to take my time with my decisions but I went into my usual "snap decision"-mode, where I am way to sticky and easy to exploit. It basically boiled down to me not even caring about playing good poker. Lost about 6 or 7 buyins. I played this evening because I was feeling hungry for a hand challenge during a week´s period but I just dont think im cutout for it.

urghh. Rough couple of days now, stuck about $3,5k whilst running insanely above EV. Today I had a bunch of coolers whilst being on the wrong side of those yet again but this time I did not succeed to durrrr anyone, not even once.

JJ vs AA twice. bottom two vs top two on the flop in a 3bet pot and so on. It just didn´t go my way. Slightly lifetilted atm since im so spoiled with actually winning albeit it being small wins.

Not very happy for the moment mentally, I pay off a bunch of unneccessary spots aswell because im just sick and tired of this scenario keeps repeating itself; LOLZOMFG I RIVERED YOU Xdd LET DONK INTO HIM POT!

Played two more sessions this day after this ^. Totaled 6k hands. Lost basically every flip today in this 6k stretch, and by lost I mean that I ran into aces when holding TT-KK in std get it in situations and lost twice AK vs AK ai pre along with a bunch of random coolers and setups and all the like. It was horrible, and this obviously means by default that im playing more horrid. The tally ended up being -15bi.

It was a tough day, but I got to end the night with some of the ugliest pots ive ever won. 3bet in the SB with JTss. got called. Q xc xc lead out half pot. CALL. Turn 8o, bet 3/4 pot. river 9o for the absolute nuts. It was a PBS left so I got it in there and got snapped by QQ.

Poor guy, yay me!

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Gotta say, its a tough life being a grinder. Looked at my my whole database giraphe, you really can tell when I stopped bumhunting haha rekt that giraphe

Played a bit tonight aswell, about 1700 hands. Played well, steady, thought hands through. Bluffed a decent amount and so forth. All around pretty solid. Was up a couple of buyins, but came crashing down, ended modest 150bb up, albeit still a solid chunk in terms of $ since I ran good at the bigger games today.

Anyway, I think im not cutout for anything more than 4 to 6 tables(still can get a decent chunk of hands in just not 6k+ days everyday), even with that amount of tables I time down to timebank on alot of mundane decisions, I NEED to think basic stuff through, keeps me on my toes and not going into my spewcally autopilot where I never have a plan for anything and do not bother to check villainstats on whatever situation.

It is so much easier to fold a nice looking hand if villain in fact have a 6% 3betting range from that position against a open from whatever position, yea you got my point. I need to process these things so I can have an idea of their range, and what my range might look like when calling, Im not very good at this yet in terms of "unconscious consciousness". So hard to get a grip around the idea of turning check/called middlepair no kicker hands type of stuff into bluffs later streets when the board run in favour of my range and stuff like that.

Although, im working on it, and there will come a time where I´ll master it, that´s it for tonight and yeah, watch "the flash" if you haven´t. Pleasantly surprised!

I mean sure, I do these things, but it tends to happen in bigger pots more , which is not really a good thing as their ranges get more narrow etc. I need to play my percieved range better in smaller pots. Always fight for the pot within realm of credibility. Or in other words, get better to identify spots were the board is a slam dunk and go for it, and not all those spots I tend to pick now

Autopiloting is s bitch. And yeah note to self , nit the F up, everyone else is.

Studied yesterday(read mostly), thought a bit about balancing flopcalling in SRP´s. Watching two videos now in the morning on RIO, gonna follow it up with an early lunch and then hit the tables.

Started off by going on tilt pretty much instantly, played a regular HU for a little bit while waiting for tables(he knew this and was fine with it), won a buyin in non sd pots and then made a bad call for a 400bb pot(you can reload 200bb there), said GG as my 5max tables started to pop up. Clearly a bit tilted coming into the session and started with spewing off a few stacks although I actually stand by one of my plays against a somewhat competent player but I misjudged him greatly and thus selfowned myself. **

Pulled myself together and started playing better, well, to be fair it was a effect of getting an absurd amount of AA(albeit the usual folds did occurr), and spiking a few draws that put me off tilt agan and I was able to proceed to play normally Got in 2300 hands and ended in the green although it wasnt by much it is still satisfactory as a mother****er to end the day good after digging a deep nice hole with a epic drilling machine.

Anyway, Ive changed around my ranges a little bit and the effect came pretty instantly(a clear difference is showing on these last 10k hands since the change) and without going into to much detail im a bit tighter. My range stays stronger postflop and im not as involved in pots all the time, rake really takes it toll off the winrate when you are playing lowstakes and and going in with as wide range as I did in certain spots.

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Gonna put my oldest daughter to bed soon and hopefully get another session in if im not to tired, reading bedtime stories/putting her to bed is greatly soothing, puts my mind to rest. Basically my brain goes to the tune of like "laterino nocopypasterino"

GLGG

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2k hands today, I dont think ill manage to squeeze in another session though as my fiancee is working evening shift today so im fulltime daddying it up after I pick em up from kindergarten in a few hours.

Feels like im in a good place now with the pokers, a bit unfocused at times on the 5max not giving much thought into most decisions as I would like today but I had 3 games on the side of the 3-4 ringgames running which was hu/3max action which took most of my decisionmaking POWER!

Gonna put down some theory after the kids are put to bed instead actually, wrote down 2 hands that happened today that I want to look deeper into, two very standard spots in SRP where im clueless what range im representing and how their looks and how to take it from there, mostly I just bet once somewhere in the hand and nitfold when called. Very exciting the mere fact that I am interested in spots like this.

2k hands, studying poker, kids, wife.

500 hands, no studying, no kids, no wife. Man Im lazy. Or too much:



Are you ever playing the 5max on SvS? If so, then you probably see my 500 hands of spew every day and wouldnt feel so bad about your AK yolojam. (I like it btw)

Keep it up!

another 2k hands day and it went fairly well, lost total focus there for a solid 30 minutes whilst 8tabling, got into a discussion with a dear friend over facebook lol. Appearantly they need me to do a comeback to the world of FPS-games, this time being CS:GO for the IRL-m8s team. It was such a long time ago I played ANY FPS-game that im worried that the basic mechanics will take me a solid 100 hours to get in, alot of time to dump :S. I have a pretty big ego when talking FPS-games so im not gonna go in there and suck a tit even if I never really went hardcore in CS earlier.

Oh well, it sounded like fun tbh.. could use a little fun every now and then even if it means that I have to prepare my anus for a deeper ramming because I can´t really free up much more than an hour or two every other night heh.

3 hands for my theorysession, I keep stacking them up but not really diving into it, however last theorystudy was really productive so im gonna hit the book again now.

spoilertagging below, it´s just whine so if you do not want to read it, skip it.

2,1k hands, started 4bi stuck after 400 hands but managed to turn it around and book 1bi up, however +-0 when taken in account of steaks.

Now work some numbers in CR-EV

1,500 hands today and I cannot complain about the results I managed to pool my losing hands to 0,5/1 tables and pool my winning ones to 1/2 and 2/4. A little less "grind" today, and a bit more of a bumhunting day, atleast in how it felt because I managed to end up with alot of juicy tables. Probably gonna play another sess tonight @ the laptop or smth at unibet.

Oh wow Ive totally missed this post. Got so used to noone ever posting lol :-) nope, havent played any on SvS yet, reason being that I reserve my 5 tables to bumhunt HU. I play on sites where I still can have my HU tables up whilst I work / grind / learn to play ringgames :-) this way the damage can be somewhat absorbed.

Thanks for posting! Apreciated!

Only got through 2 pages in the book tonight lol. Did break down my CC-range on the BTN vs a CO-open though. I seem to be fairly balanced here tbh, value raises were spot on, a few combos short on the bluff raises, which pretty much explains why my RR-% is to low in general as I am probably weighted like this in all generic spots IP against a C-bet, that needs work. My calling range seemed pretty ok aswell, I just need to take a few combos from my folding range and put it in my raise range, not exactly ideal but I am not that fond of the idea of killing one or two combos of my calling range to be put in my raising range. Id rather just have it in my raising range and go yolo with it if I happen to get in that spot once in a blue moon.

I am clearly not a fast worker, I need to brush up my study technique a bit

Alright, sounds like a resonable strategy. Youll probably learn ****** 5max poker if youd play SvS 5max anyways. :-)

2600 hands today.

Sat down a while trying to spot leaks, as the results is lacking this month, tried comparing the two to see if it was possible to spot something obvious. The position im losing the most on is the small blind losing -45bb/100 and -43bb/100 the month before. I get the feeling that im doing something awful poorly here as if I was just straight up folding every god damn SB id be losing -50bb/100, and that would probably mean that id lose about the same if I were only raising the hellmuth top10 . I am not doing much out of the ordinary here imo, against CO and BTN im mostly 3bet or folding, rarely flatting myself in and when I do it´s mostly because of multiway action happening or and the BB is a fish. Maybe I just need to tighten up a bit more against the CO? Meh.

On to my other blind, the big blind. Seem to defend it by defending ~30% and 3betting ~8%. Losing at -7bb/100 and -14bb/100. Not much other to say there, I think it´s fine. Defending wide against btn/sb and not so wide against UTG/CO for obvious reasons.

UTG.... interesting. I get it is a small sample and from my own selective memory ive been having quite a few coolers there this month, but its kinda funny how I opened 25% UTG last month and ended up +38bb/100 there lol. I am suspecting people are overfolding a huge amount just because they see "oh UTG opens" and fold before even actually looking how often people open UTG. This month ive opened 19% which is more humane although im losing at -14bb/100, Ironically im trying to go for 16-18% but I evidently slip up sometimes .

Pretty much exactly the same on CO last month and this in terms of bb/100 although I opened a bit wider and 3bet/4bet a bit more last month. Not gonna venture much further into details there.

BTN. Won at a whopping 70bb/100 last month and im struggling at 13bb/100 this month. Stats are exactly the same except that I 4bet TWICE as much last month, which brings down my overall 4betting statistic a whole lot and that can and probably have som implications on how light people are generally stacking off against me. I think I need to 4bet bluff alot again.

Yeah, giraphewise my RED LINE is absolutely disgusting. I am losing sooo much in non sd pots. It saddens me a bit that im not a cool red line guy. Id like that.

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Been reading and studying a bit this weekend during the evenings when the kids were asleep as I was a bit afraid to play tired and a little lifetilt in the mix. Some interesting notes were made.

Thats all for now

Another ****ty day, bout 1400 hands, got steamed pretty early on by a bad regular that is a compulsive 3bettor and super unbalanced postflop but he kept hitting which made me a bit reckless. I am slipping a little bit in my game for the moment, I am very unsure of situations etc as im afraid of losing to much every day, its not a given in my psyche that I could have a winning day, feels more like I am trying to manage my losses to a minimum. Although I get the feeling that I am not doing any vastly idiotic as even the people I consider a little less of a extreme bumhunter than the majority also sits out when the tablefish dies and leaves the table to me. A little bit of a egoboost but it also means im getting buttoned every single time which probably makes them a decent chunk of money in the end.

1100 hands today, not much to say other than it didnt go to well today, hopefully things turn around the latter portion of this week, cheers

Hang in there !!1

thanks mate, actually I repaired todays losses with a short session where played 3handed a bit with some regs and won some. Also I've been running like god in the random spin and go games on the side winning a bunch of 3x multipliers so I'm okay with it all games are sick addictive and I dread when I have a complete meltdown after losing a bunch of allins. It just gets a bit annoying that I don't seem to figure ring games out. After all I am putting most of my volume on NL100 and people are doing some pretty ******ed stuff all the time which makes me believe that I can't be even on my worst days that huge of a dog.

I get that the variance is huge and I might be getting the short end of the stick, suits me well since I ran like god when I first started out which got me into all of this in the first place. "wow, this is easy", then I started to study and it went downhill from there .
Hopefully my work pays soon enough!

Well yea variance + you're not even playing a whole lot in terms of hands so it's def possible to just have a longer losing period.

Just less possible because of your selection and the fact that you.re more focused on quality rather than quantity. How's the coaching going?

It have been real enlightening thus far to be honest, way above expectation. I feel that I am a bit lazy though , could def squeeze out more out of it. The information is there so to speak, I need to harness it!

Yea I guess to true grinders im not putting in a insane amount of hands , at 35k hands so far this month. Its hard to have more tables than I already have since my "uncouncious conciousness" is **** for ring, therefor the moment I open more than 4-5 tables my ranges and freqeuencies get blown to ****.


Although soon enough I will become infused with the azn clicking powers of Nanonoko!

Also, your english is far beyond me so Im just gonna post onliners and pics up in this mf.