Keep trudging buddy, I believe in you

+1 have confidence his graph will be at a nice point by summer if he puts in volume, gl PFS!

Tyty!!

Played a pretty long session of mainly 600nl and a little 1knl today as I grinded out the 100k. Won about $1500. Still didn't run all that great. Found myself in 2 spots I should have gotten away from. Mostly top of my range ridiculous spots. Just frustrating.

Other than that played really well. And really happy with my overall play aside from those 2 really tough spots. Taking the rest of the night off watched walking dead and gonna get some rest for work tomorrow.

Glad you shared this honesty here. It definitely rings home with me.

This is such a common theme for a lot of players, and I can say first hand it's a battle for me at times to not just fire up a session or hop into a live game without doing the proper warm up and prep mentally.

Even more so when we have been running well and not experiencing much in the way of negative variance or difficult spots from villains after a few days or more in a row. Complacency is exactly what creeps in, and then a little winners tilt and even some form of a hidden ego will rear its ugly head.

I have learned the hard way, over and over again, that in order to build that mental stamina we will need when times are tough, we need to stick to our processes each and every day. Perhaps it's even more important to do it when we are focused and on point and playing well. Those are the times where working on our game seems to suffer the most. All great players put in a lot of time, effort, and evaluation of hands and their game in general when they are in the midst of a downswing. Only a handful of them can honestly say they do it enough when times are good.

Last month:



Overall pretty brutal month. Started to make a lil comeback from the end of last month until today. Was up like $8-9k last week or so. Had a brutal session earlier today losing $3k. Just stuff like TT into AK on AA4TK all in on the turn in a 3 bet pot. Think I lost with 6 or 7 sets/boats. Ah well. Played really well tho so I'm happy about that. Trying to stay focused on every single decision.

You'll get it back as long as you keep your attitude the way it is. Keep making good decisions and you will recover. It sounds like you're just getting owned by the deck a lot lately and running into the top of opponents ranges.

You've got this bro.

Yeah +1^ your attitude to the run bad is pretty remarkable tbh. Gotta take something really important away from that if nothing else. Things will turn around soon. Good luck!

Thanks guys! Played a late session last night before bed for about an hour and a half and won back what I lost earlier in the day. Yeah my attitude is better than it's ever been when it comes to run bad. I still get frustrated just like anyone else but it doesn't affect me like it used to. I try to stay super aware of my mental condition in game. There are certain things I do when I'm not playing my A game. And when any those things happen 3 or more times in a session I try to quit and go do something else. It's really tough cuz I want to grind thru my downswings. But def not the most EV play to do so in that condition.

Oh and lost 2 out of 3 games last night at bowling. I think we're probably knocked down to like 5-6th place. I bowled 30 pins over average tho so I'm pretty happy about that. Going out dancing tonight I think. Tons of stuff to do around the house in the meantime.

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

Grinded some this weekend. Several sessions at 1knl and even a lil at 2knl. Overall doing really well. Better at 1k for the moment. Found some fish playing 2k at a table or 2 yesterday. Ran really bad in several spots. Lost 2 buy ins there and broke even for the most part at other stakes for Sunday. Games have been pretty good tho. Probably up about $5k for the month.

On a funny side note I tried to deposit like $200 on Carbon thru Bitcoin to see if they would give me that as a withdrawl option. They refuse to give me that option even after depositing thru it. So not gonna put anymore on there. I been playing some of the casino games on there for ****s and giggles when I'm laying around the house doing nothing. I have since ran it up to like $1200. Haha. Guess I'll have them send me a check. It'll get here by June I guess.

Lol noooo you got trapped by carbon

Haha yeah I was playin there before at like 200nl. And finally was able to withdraw my small roll off there last year. But now since I heard they were giving you Bitcoin withdraws if you deposit with that option I figured I'd give it a shot. No Bueno. Oh well.

rigged man. Lol Carbon.

Ah, yes the old carbon bitcoin trap where they tell you you'll probably get bitcoin if you deposit with bitcoin then they don't give it to you. Classic merge.

So just booked my flight and hotel for the WSOP. Plan on playing the main event and a few side events as well in the time frame I'll be there. Staying for about 18 days. Pretty pumped and love the action in live cash around Vegas during that time of year!

Possibly will be selling some of my main event action. Depends on a pro I know from Canada that usually buys whatever I want to sell. If he doesn't come thru this year for some reason I'll be selling in the marketplace. Also thinking about booking a trip to New Orleans for the circuit event in May. I usually attend but haven't made up my mind yet.

i'll be rooting for you bro when the time comes~

Having another pretty swingy month so far. Doin really well for a few sessions then taking 2 steps back for a few sessions. Been pretty much just breaking even all month with big swings up and down. It is what it is. It's been worse before and I know my game has improved since the last big downswing/long BE stretch I had like this.

It's been about 60k hands this year and I'm prob up like $2000. Lol. Fun stuff. I does get frustrating as hell to not reap any rewards for my efforts thus far and going thru the same old stuff day in and day out. It's periods like this that I'm grateful to have a good job that pays all my bills. And also helps keep me humble/reminds me why I never quit my pretty gravy job.

Heading to Orlando in a few weeks. My girl is going there for a work thing and I'm meeting up with her there the weekend of that week she's going. Pretty excited about that. If anyone has any suggestions on stuff to do there let me know.

Enjoy the time off!

Besides Disney/Universal, not much. There's a ton of shopping outlet malls you could check out if you want to go shopping. Downtown Orlando is a lot of fun if your into bars/clubs. Lots of good food there too. There's this little hole in the wall Japanese restaurant Amura downtown that is awesome. Seriously if you go downtown and like Japanese food go eat at this place.

Have fun bro.

Thanks man I might have to check it out.

Pretty much still having a really lame ass month. Pretty much going from up $2-3k this month to down $1-2k. Back and forth back and forth. Lol. Still playing well tho so that's all I can hope for. It'll turn around soon.

Anyways, did a lil work at the house this weekend too. Pull up like 6-7 bushes from my flower bed in the front of my house. They are the bushes that came with the house like years ago. **** has been ugly and I've never had any color in my front yard. Next Saturday my girl and I are gonna buy a ton of flowers and and rose bush or 2 and do some planting. I'm actually excited. Been living in this house for like 8 years and never done anything with the flowerbeds. Maybe I'm just getting old.

We are also redecorating some of the interior. There are some bad ass paintings on this website we found that are printed on canvas and shipped to you. Prices were really good too and they are like abstract stuff. Really like the few pieces we bought. Also need some curtains to kinda go with everything so...

I will post some before/after of the flower bed planting experiment and also the decorating ****.

Link to the paintings website?

www.greatbigcanvas.com

We bought from the 'abstract' section. They were having like 40% off sale.

So tried to cash out my lil $1k balance on Carbon via check and got an email today saying I can do Bitcoin withdrawls now and that I should cancel my check and do Bitcoin. Lol. Def interesting and probably going to be depositing some funds on Carbon soon.

Lets place some bets whether or not you last 100k hands before getting banned for being to good.