I went on some serious tilt today, and after an amazing night last night, I gave about a quarter of yesterdays winnings back in the space of 10 mins, how do you guys deal with hands like this?

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I'm not sure whether this is a hand that caused you to tilt or this was already on tilt.

Get used to it. Happens all the time at 2nl. It's like being on a roller-coaster. Just hang on and hope you get to the end with your sanity still intact.

This sent me on tilt, I don't often go all in here with just top pair (Aces) But I had been watching this guy for a good hour, and had 2 notes on him, he bet all 3 streets with just pockets 3s, with a crazy straighty flushy board, and donked the river. He also went all in twice with just top pair once on the flop and again on the turn. So I had been waiting for a AQ+ hand against him so patiently, finally I get it, hit the ace, praying to god he's got Ax and he has, plan coming together perfectly, fish hooked line and sinkered, but then runner runner diamond!!! gave him the win.

This isn't tilt, tilt would be shoving your 5s in that spot.

Quite frankly, there is nothing wrong with your play if you know he's calling all his acex and flush draws to that shove.

Yes it's not the best play for the majority of players, but 2nl is awful and if people are willing to pay you, feel free to do it, even a small stakes crusher talks about a similar strat here:



Anyways, if that is all it takes to send you on tilt (losing an 80/20), you really need to reevaluate your mindset. I can understand anger, but if losing 80/20s sets you off....well you're gonna be mad 1/5 of the time easily, so you need to find a way to deal with it.

Btw things like this don't make or break you at all, especially at 2NL where one can easily put up 20bb/100.

I am so happy you have quoted Blackrain79, as that is my number 1 resource for trying to crush the micros, I have probably read every word on his website 10 times by now forcing it into my head till I got it set.

By any chance, have you read his paid material, as I am very tempted to buy his book also.

if you tilt you must learn not to.

mcdonalds has many ex poker players asking if you would like fries with your hamburger.

I have not, but he seems very legit and quite smart, so it would likely be a good investment.

Harden up, it's $2 and a very standard beat.

Also generally 3-betting post-flop there would be atrocious, you had notes though so OK I guess.

Think about 3betting pre, it's not mandatory but you have a good hand and nut position.

But mainly, harden up, it's $2 and also this kind of stuff is 100% standard.

Can you actually post a hand history here, I'd probably have commented on a few of your now many threads if you did

Yeah, I mean tilted at losing $2. Seriously? You want to try losing $300 to a bad beat. Then you are entitled to be tilted.

By the way Blackrains CTM is very good value for these stakes.

Hey guys lets not talk about how much it is, or the value, that's not the point, (especially sitting here with a supercar in my garage) the point is the game of poker, they are points to me not money, while I am trying to learn, and move my way up. I'm simply starting at the lowest stakes to better myself, not to moan, begrudge or put others down because "well it's only $2, man up". Especially not knowing the person personally.


So stop with the well it's only $2, since I came into money starting my business, money has been both my downfall and my making so I won't go there, I've made and lost so many friends over having money, that having vast amounts of it is a lesson in itself.

Anyway, to those offering advice, I thank you, and as for hand history, I am clearly new to online poker (well new to treating it seriously at least) so I have no idea how to do any of that stuff, hence I'm in the "beginner" section Currently got a 30 day trial of HEM2 if this is where I would get that kind of stuff.

PS: I have lost £300 in Portsmouth England, Grovesnor Casino, flush beat my straight I didn't tilt because at that time I was playing for fun and £300 is alot more than $2 My point is that was for fun and this is me trying to take poker seriously, it's how I got beat that tilted me not the amount. So again, without knowing me, please don't judge.

In the mean time, I have made the move to purchase Blackrain79s book. Read some decent reviews on it. Especially leading on to his newer book "The Micro Stakes Playbook".

It is the point though because poker is about the money.

Also sick brag about your car sir. Even more reason to man up because it's only $2.

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Nothing wrong with playing 2NL and to be fair, yeah beats used to annoy me (although this barely qualifies because it's so standard) but play enough and you just get over it. Or you play for bigger stakes live and stop caring because you've taken multi-hundo beats instead of a cheeseburger.

tl;dr it's $2, move on.

I’m going to take a different approach here. I think the issue begins with your play of not isolating with a reraise on the button with AQ suited. You’re opening the door to get beat, essentially creating the monster yourself.

Flop you’re aganst a bet then a pot sized reraise and you shove? At a minimum you’re against the flush draw and you have the backdoor, but you’re also up against another ace, if not two, so two pair never entered your mind. What about sets?

Granted the run out is sick, but I think this was all self induced.

This is extremely bad advice. While playing 2NL it should hurt to lose a stack. It's 1/20 to 1/40 of your roll that was essentially stolen by varience. While playing you must drop the absolute dollar amounts and think in terms of big blinds and percentage of your roll. Then the game becomes essentially the same no matter what the stakes actually happen to be. Largely the stake level is irrelevant if you are thinking abstractly enough like you should be.

It's ideal to not tilt. It's ideal to play correctly regardless of stakes.

These are not mutually exclusive statements.

Every poker player needs to deal with losing sessions and one of the first techniques to do that is to put the loss into perspective. If you can't deal with a $2 loss by reminding yourself that it's a trivial amount of money, you are not be suited to playing poker.

I 100% agree with the others that say you should have 3bet pre. Secondly, I will disagree with the above post that you should only be considering your wins and losses in big blinds rather than dollar amounts. In a live 1/3 game how many villains are going to call off right at $300 with AT there? Not many in my opinion. This is why I hate playing micro stakes online because completely dumb moves/calls/shoves don't hurt 99% of people, so they make them...... constantly. So you are going to take waaayyyy more sick beats at micro stakes than larger stakes. I am not recommending you move up, I am just saying that this is the kind of stuff you are going to run into at those stakes. No matter how good you are. And honestly, if the villain was willing to stack off right there, he probably would have called your 3bet pre anyways. But not 3betting these spots pre is asking for some stupid beats.

Some good stuff, thanks guys. Have been reading Blackrain79s paid for book overnight and watching pokervip microstakes series, really am learning a hell of alot than just keep tight and bet when you got it I knew position was important, but I have just studied a whole other level to it, exciting stuff

Well guys, just an update, instead of starting a new thread as someone mentioned i was doing too many ill add it here.

I have finished Blackrain79s book, and went on and watched about 10 hours worth of youtube microcash videos, aswell as some twitch streamers. I know this is a miniscule hand amount, but it's all i've got since I finished reading and watching things to better my game, and this is my first session since that.

good job man keep it up

Cheers bud, here is my total graph, as you can clearly see along this graph I have clearly bettered my game, I am enjoying poker so much more now, being comfortable in spots where I used to stress myself out before.

Played another session 6 tabling throughout the night, still going strong, have attached my session graph then total graph.

Might keep charts updated here like a journal kind of thing, from a tilting money giver to a solid microstake player (credit to blackrain79). Got a bad beat near the beginning of my session last night, but did not go on tilt, I just put some music on and got on with it, and I was rewarded thusly for doing so

Be aware that you're winning at nearly 18bb/100 in this (very small) sample and this is likely unsustainable. In other words, losses might very well come.

Indeed I am aware of this, variance will soon show it's ugly side, I'm prepared

I have already managed to get over my biggest weakness (and whole point for this thread) which is tilt. Proved with todays bad beats, where I just got on with it with some help from Bon Jovi, and a few printed out messages to myself put on the wall above my monitor to remind myself of a few things in tough situations.

Ok, for anyone that is interested in my journey, I shall continue with todays mini session and graph and finally my totals graph.

Also I have provided a link to my twitch stream upon where I streamed tonights session
If anyone has a little bit of time to watch over parts of it, and tell me areas I could improve or better myself in would be great.

Twitch stream link: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/249324919##

Tonight session:


Updated total graph: