Haha ok. So I've talked the spot through with some guys and I have to admit that calling would be the best option. At the time I thought raising would be the simple way of getting it in with good equity but as you clearly stated its a much better strategy to pot control vs fish with this kinda draw. Ty for your thoughts! Much appreciated.

also prefer calling ip, shoving oop...
gl, hope you had fun at the comedy

wish you called with AQ good fold :$

thanks mate, was really good fun!

haha i hope is was a good fold... ty!

server restart today provided the best games since christmas. Was also nice to book a win after the past couple days:



vs good reg:



vs biiiig fish with super high agg:



vs another big fish. No idea how he's shown up with this hand lol:



vs a solid reg. unreal cooler for him:



off to play some 9 ball. glgl

fyp.

9 ball 4rollz imo :P

go play snooker like a real man

Played so bad, smb won this time

haha i want to but he doesn't...

Absolutely beaning this month, running above ev but just cant get any momentum. Standard variance though so whatever. Going away today till sunday on a counselling residency weekend with my class. Will be a great opportunity to clear my head and do something other than poker for a couple of days.

Month to date:



Got stacked so many times at 200nl today to ridic coolers.

gl on the weekend grind boys and girls

and they calll it maaaagic

fyp.

LOL smb, be gentle with him
hope to get some 9 ball action when i visit london/leeds this year

wouldn't use usual twice in one sentence. moron

for sure mate!

nah, iluvthrill definitely not allowed to play.

Back home after 4 days away doing counselling stuff. Absolutely exhausted emotionally and physically now. Been an amazing learning experience and the ability in becoming more self aware is just incredible. If i could advise anyone to do anything to better themselves as a person it would be to take a counselling skills course (the first 1 year course i did). You would NOT regret it!

Will be back on poker tomorrow to turn the month back around.

Night, gl

Did you study at college or was it an online course?

I've been studying in a college for the past 2 years. Took a level 2, 3, and now on the level 4. I'm a bit over half way through the 1st of 2 years atm. I'd say that learning the kinda skills you learn and the self development could only be done with other students who are experiencing what you are. I reckon that you'de lose too much of that exp by taking it online.

Month still not going great. Spent some time with ishipKQ working on some 3bet stuff which i think will be really helpful. Around b/e for the month. Really need to up my volume over the next couple weeks. Getting sooo few hands per hour since dropping tbl numbers so will up my daily hours.

Some hands from today:

vs a reg who i don't have a great deal of history vs. Think my overbet is ok, but maybe a normal bet would have sufficed. He didnt think long at all and called so prob wasn't folding to any bet.



hand vs a shorty who is now forced to play deep . Just a shame he got there.



vs a high stakes aggro reg. Not sure why they're playing 200nl...



vs spewey reg.



passive fish:



Such a frustrating hand vs a 70/40/10.5. He auto posted too, urgh



gl

Decided to play less day sessions and more evening. The games have just been so insanely bad in the day so i thought i could do more off table work and college work then get on the grind at around 4pm.

Still b/e for the month. Some hands from the past day or so:

vs limped fish and cold call reg:



vs fish:



vs aggro reg:



Still time to turn the month around!

How many hands for the month so far?

I've also noticed over the last 10 days or so the games have been noticeably worse during the day, fish on vacation atm it looks like and the ones that are not on vacation have the nuts.

I think you are GMT? It will turn around soon!

hey man. barely any hands for the month cus as you said, its just next level with regard to game quality. Yeh i'm in GMT. Ty for support

Mid monthly update (don't wanna be updating right now!)

I'm not sure what's going on but i just haven't had a good spot for what feels like ages. Every reg is just bombing me in every hand and fish just have it every hand too. Got pretty low confidence in hands too which is always a negative when feeling you're being pushed around.

Anyway, todays graph



Month



some hands. vs shorty,



vs aggro reg:



vs huge whale. ridiculously annoying river:



vs another big fish. Don't think i can play my hand any differently than this:



In other news, I've put on close to 4ib in weight (nearly 2kg) Been gyming hard and eating as much as poss.

Please god let tomorrow be a better day.

Hey Ben,

Hand 1/4 is just horrible from 50bb stack.

Hand 3/4 I like over betting the turn here. Very wet board vs whale after villain calls a 4x flop raise.

Hand 4/4 Standard

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you but keep cool and let the variance play out.
You will be back winning in no time.

GL Stan

Thanks for your feedback mate. Definitely like the turn overbet suggestion.

Again, cheers, we all need some moral support sometimes! gl

Caught a bit of heat and now up a little bit. Off to have my first client today, so pretty excited/nervous. Will make a proper post later with graphs and some hands.