Hope your dad has speedy recovery !!!

Played 200z last night while I was at my buddy's house and just got owned. Lost a bit over 5 BI pretty quickly. Just haven't been playing much and the super-quick time to making decisions really hurt me.

Do you just put a -5BI down to mostly variance?

How would you rate your play /10 last night?

2/3 BI session I kinda brush off and be like, meh... Didn't run great and made a couple mistakes maybe. But those 4/5BI sessions annoy me and get to me quite a bit, since it's more of a substantial hit to the roll and progress. Mostly annoying due to bad play.

Why don't you use stop loss strategy? If losing more than 3BI affects you or your play why not quit after losing set amount of BI's?

Mostly bad play. Mehhhh spots, but stuff I usually get out of.

3/10

Yeah it's a good strat. But my question was more aimed at whether OP has sessions where he knows he played crap. Whether it's okay and common for higher stakes winning regs to play bad from time to time, but still overall beat the stake. I guess it comes down to how often we play poorly/ A game, were only human after all:

quiting after 3 bi ... lol maybe this is the game for you...
-5 bi is pretty standard
Hope all is well Broken!!!

Yeah, everything is fine. Just don't have much time for poker these days and the time I do have I usually do something besides poker. The problem with playing in my last session was just not in the right mental set and was playing 200z, so only have a few seconds to make decisions. Arguments can be made for a lot of my plays, although I'd lean towards most of them being bad. I kind of just played pseudo gto and ended up calling down and checking vs. the field too much. It's really whatever, lesson learned. Down 2k @ 200z now in not-so-many-hands. Definitely some running bad involved with it as well, which always makes it worse. Not too concerned though, will just play some 100nl now for a bit when I feel like it/have time.

Honestly, poker feels more like work to me at the moment, which it has in the past. I think I'll probably take a break for a while tbh. Don't really like trying to force volume and I don't need the money anymore either.

I visited my dad again and he seems to be doing better, but he is still in the hospital. They found clots in his lungs so now he is on blood thinners and probably some stuff to help with breaking up the clots. Probably be a bit before he is released and then he is going to move in with my sister.

My buddy had a party on Saturday for his birthday and a couple other people's birthdays around the same time. Got a couple kegs and did some beer pong/cards against humanity and jus music/chill at his place. Was a lot of fun, but I had ended up staying up until 2am the day prior, and woke up at 8am. The day before that I worked 13 hour shift and had got 5 hrs of the sleep before that so I could flip my schedule around again, so Saturday I was just super super tired around 11pm. I ended up going up stairs and kinda chilling in a chair by myself and then a buddy came over and chatted a bit with me before he left. I ended up falling asleep at like 12:10am-12:20am and then another one of my friends was like you okay man? I was like yeah, just tired, ended up recouping and joining the party again but didn't drink much. I didn't go to bed until 4am, so it was a long day!

Now I got few hours of sleep earlier today and am up again to flip my shedule around again so I can work tomorrow evening. This flipping of my schedule every few days is really tough.

My girlfriend also looked at some apartments couple days ago and we're going to see if we can get one of them when our current lease is up (few months from now). The square footage is double that of what we have now (900sq ft) and I'm looking wayyyyyyyyy forward to having a bigger bathroom and kitchen. We're also going to use the extra bedroom as an office/game room . Can't wait to have some more space!

all the best to your pa - hope everything works out, had a tough time with my dad a year ago. just try and stay positive is the best advice i can give you.

as far as playing tired goes, that just doesn't work for me (although my game is no where near as advanced as your s i would guess) - i may as well just become an ATM + always feel like when i'm running well i am still leaving lots of money on the table

Yea man, I'm thinking about taking a break too. It's really hard to put in volume when you're busy.

OMG i made it here finally idk why i havent seen this but i've seen doctor877's PG&C lol.

Sick thread btw :>

Hey, thanks for coming around.

I played a bit the other night and lost a bit over $500, couple buy ins at 200nl and a couple at 50nl (100 wasn't running, it was very late). Ended the session at 50nl aipf vs. some fish running like 50/12 over 50ish hands gii pre co vs bb with KK vs his QQ... Literally went all in and closed my eyes... Lol, flop was QXX or something. I was like god damnit, I quit! lol So, switched over to Runescape and have been playing that a decent clip these last couple of weeks. Tables weren't particularly great, but should still be slightly +EV vs the bad regs still and every table still has a weaker player/fish. Had another kind of annoying spot where I should have just folded vs. a lol-sizing tell with the absolute top of my range w/ top two pair and lost to a straight. Tanked all the way down thinking to myself, ugh this is never a bluff, but this is top of my range, but this is never a bluff, but this is top of my range, etc.etc. then clicked call (quite awful).

Spots have been pretty annoying every time I've played this month. Down a bit over 10 BI for the month, bit over 2K. Feel as though I'm running excessively bad. Keep getting into spots where I need to be folding very high in my range, which I do and I don't because it's difficult to fold so much so high in your range. Playing at the same table for an hour + and clearly the guy can't have it every time right?... lol. Anyways, play has been quite sub-optimal this month despite the running bad. I've only played like 8k hands too.

As for real life, still hate my job. I don't know how to do/am not confident in many things and when I ask for help or how to do something the responses I get are either non-existent or not helpful at all. It's like if I asked you, "Hey how do I get to your house?" and then you responding with, "Lolololol, you drive you **** moron". Gee, thanks buddy. That's an exaggeration, but 1-5 word responses I get from some of these higher-up engineers are lol-worthy. I also spent a lot of time looking through old documents and stuff on their website/intranet and the way people type, like, the grammar/punctuation and just over-all-ness of everything everyone does seems like this place is ran by children.

Guy got something in his eye the last week and I ended up taking him to the infirmary, etc. did everything 100% correct, well guy went to hospital and got the stuff out (he's fine mostly). But next day they blamed the fans and then shut down all the fans in the plant. Like... first off the fans weren't even running, second.... just wtf? This is the **** I'm dealing with. Their incompetence is over LEVEL 10,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have c**** (to put it politely) like this at my work. If I want something doing or want to ask something I'll just go out of my way to avoid these slime balls, they just kill my vibe effortlessly without even knowing it. They think they're funny and liked by everyone, even by me. Their humour and the fact they think I'm cool with them makes me cringe and is so awkward. In reality I'm just thinking in my head, 'I can't wait till you get fired and are out of my daily life'.
Just try to spend as much time with colleagues you like and at every opportunity avoid the ones you don't.

Yeah, that's going to happen in every situation where some random people are thrown together like a job where you can't always chose who you're working with. Incompetence is everywhere and sometimes hard to deal with.
Unfortunately some BS needs to be accepted as long as you're overall happy with what you're doing. If not, a change must be considered.
As Unsporting said, most of it can be limited to the minimum tho.

This is so hard to do. Keep hitting that fold button with discipline. Would ship you some rungood but running quite terrible myself lately.

It's incompetence in the management which makes it worse. The VP is a super super super arrogant prick and just fires people left and right so everyone is scared of him.

Think i might try for some poker again next weekend which will be a 3 day break, until then think I'm going to coast and just chill on my next 2 day break which will be monday/tuesday

You reckon all this real life stuff has had an affect on your game? Like the awful work place and your fathers accident. When bad stuff usually happens to me irl I tend to auto pilot more and my redline takes a super sharp decrease.

It's more I'm just pretty exhausted all the time right now. So yeah, definitely. My mental acuity is just way way lower.

I have to go back home to my dad's over my 3 day break now and help my brother clean out the house and help my sister get her place ready for my dad.

woop woop, there goes my weekend

Isn't it tempting to just go fully pro and just say; 'f*** this **** and f*** you all' at work?

Nah, honestly don't think I have the personality to be able to do that, nor would I enjoy it. Poker is a hobby for me, and it will remain so. I'd really love to do more coaching as I find that more enjoyable than playing, but anyways, keep the hobby a hobby, turn it into a job and it'd be dreadful and just ruin it for me. I've seen it happen to many people.

Have to fill in for someone that is sick...

Yay 80+ hour work week.

You're not a real man until you've done an 80 hour work week.

Man, been so busy. Went back to Ames to help move stuff out of my Dad's house. He's moving out and has moved in with my sister (he was released from hospital on Tuesday). He's still in a lot of pain and it's going to be another 6 weeks before he makes a full recovery. I guess he broke 8 ribs (not 6), two of which were broken in multiple places. He has to give him self shots in the tummy for some pain reliever I believe. But, anyways, he is doing significantly better.

Ended up staying at a buddy's house and playing cards against humanity/grilling at a guys place. He had a foosball table and I use to have one when I was a kid. Played a few people and crushed. Hadn't played in years. One guy was like, "WTF?" lol.

As for working like 86 hours over the 7 days prior to leaving, it was awful. Hated it.

Finally got some time to drop my horrible graph of February down. I played quite poorly throughout so a lot of it is my fault. Volume obviously horrible and there is just no way I'll be able to meet my volume goals until I can manage my time better.

What are your plans for a job irl? The place you work atm sounds really crappy ,I'd imagine you wouldn't want to stay there for much longer.

I'll likely be working here for about another 1.5 years until my girlfriend is done with school. There aren't any alternatives close by.