Had a nice little session just now for over $4, it was $5, but I had a fish chase his gutshot till the river while I got 2 pair and he obv hit his 2 outter magic card on the river grrrr.

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Let me start off by saying, I read a few peoples blogs here and there but rarely, ever comment in them. Honestly, in a persons blog like this, I do not think that I have ever made a comment.....

You are doing very well and do not let ANYONE tell you any different.

You seem to have a nice, sound BR management system in place and you will get there.

You just keep doing what you are doing. Playing, studying, learning and progressing......I wish you all of the best.

Kudos for your commitment and work ethic, those are hard to come by sometimes, so I commend you for it.

Thank you "All Hail Circe", really do appreciate the positive comment.

Gone sideways for this week, as you can see from my graph, however I will admit I have let tilt slowly crawl back in and I'm trying so hard to stamp it out!!!! I will get there, even if I have to buy a whole book dedicated to tilt lol.

Also variance probably showing itself aswell, or maybe I'm just not skilled lol jk.

Wow what a night and day I have had. Late through the night, I suffered serious tilt and was playing shockingly bad, calling when should be folding, raising with nothing etc, and really hit me. Hence the sideways on the graph, for quite a period of time, fish really got to me, I had AAs cracked, KK was beaten by a fish calling a 3bet with A2, and hitting a random ace on the turn. I wish I could just stay cool in these situations. So took a long break and come back on now, and went absolutely ham, running so damn good, within my first 100 hands, I had already took 3 peoples stacks, got 2 full houses, one I had pocket 99s, and had 99933, and other guy had pocket 77s, and he had 77733, wow sometimes luck comes back around doesn't it. I must remember this when i'm running bad. I managed to tilt a fish, and got him into a hand with me, I had AKs, and he had AJo, was utg and I raised, he flat called. Flop was AT6, I check, he excitedly bet pot, and I went all-in he called it, and it ran out no jack Only played for 35mins and did 158.78bb/100 and $6.51. So I am going to take that before I get over excited and tilt another way haha.

At NL2 there's no real penalty for tilt, because, if you tilt, you just start being breakeven or a small winner instead of a solid one.

In all the other limits, you actually start losing money and that's when it can get really bad. ^.^

You've got a seriously sick winrate in NL2, are you playing regular tables + table selecting?

Hi EPTchips.

Yes, that's what i'm afraid of, which is why I'm trying really hard to throw my tilt to the curb, or at least control it better.

I have mostly been playing regular tables, but zoom also, i'd say about 70-30.

Move up dude. Really impressive win rate

OK, everything was going so well just now, folding when I need to, not chasing against players I'm angry against etc then this happens, I managed to get this guy to call an all in after he 3-bet me.



Yes, I tried, I really did try to grit my teeth here and move on, but I started to instantly start playing marginal hands where I shouldn't be, trying to recoup what I just lost in a hand where I feel I should win always. Now no hand wins all the time I know and I need to get this planted into my thinking, but it's a tough battle with my own mind and I am trying so god damned hard. So I shut all my tables down and will go get some fresh air before having another crack for today.
Here was my session inc the hand above.

This is exactly the reason I put strict bankroll management in place, I know alot of you were saying move up stakes etc im crushing it, but I knew a hit was coming, mixed with tilt, and some real bad calls, I just had a disaster of a session.

Interesting session I just had, been away for a while as I tilted and needed a break, so came back tonight back on 2nl, and was doing ok until I lost 3 all ins in a row with AA, AK then KK to absolute nonsense hands. I then went and commited a huge sin and went to play 5nl. All I can say about 5nl is WOW!!!! I have never seen so many 3bets in my life, I don't know why 5nl has so many 3bets, but it's so easily exploitable it's unreal. People were literally 3betting me oop with 56o and such hands, while I'm sat there with pocket queens, as you can see from my active session I earned back all that I lost in 2nl and then even profited for the session moving to 5nl. If people continue to 3bet so light in 5nl, I cannot wait to move up to 5nl proper!!

Just had another session for good measure back to 2nl and finding the fold button alot more now, my red line has calmed down alot this session, decent session however very very frustrating opponents re-reasing streets with just 1 pair and such, making me think my TPTK is no good, when in fact it's already 100% before the river, god knows how I called them in the correct places, but I did and managed a good session.

that looks like 17.5bb/100, impressive. though you are running 2x above EV. but even half of that winrate is good. I'm not sure how far will blackrain's book get you. I read his crushing the microstakes when I started out and it was good just for understanding the basics of the game and beating nl2, but for anything more you need to learn how to think about poker, there are no charts for everything.

I think you don't really need 150$ to move up. you can do it now, but set yourself some kind of stop loss, like if you fall below 120 go back to nl2 to grind that up. my advice would be to reduce the number of tables when you move up to have a steady start because a bad losing session will hurt your roll much more at nl5.
gl!

also, never seen a nl2 graph where red line is bigger than blue, don't know how you do it lol

Been out alot lately and not played much, really should get back to the tables if I want to move up. Anyway got a nice new gaming laptop yesterday and set it up for poker, had a nice little mini session this afternoon, highlight hand was AQo in the cut off, I raise to 3bb, button calls. Flop is AT6 rainbow, I bet half pot, villian re-raised, I just called the re-raise, turn came a 9, checked and villian went all-in, I looked at his stats, didn't have many about 16 hands, and he had 50% vpip, and a 5.0 agg factor, so based on this, I called and he shown K7s, like wtf!!!

The EV's good, but nothing extraordinary imo.

My cash winrate redline also is positive and surpasses blue line. Always been like that, bb/100 is just fine too. I'm more aggressive than the average reg and stack off a tad lighter than optimal (which often kills the blue line).

Villain forget he can't do the sick bluff successfully, if he has the apparance of a maniac and maybe was unaware that you have his stats on your HUD helping you to bluff catch him correctly and, overall, K7s is just too ambitious on the texture, especially on the first encounter.

Welcome back to the grind!

Just get into a good grinding groove and then just keep playing, don't drop the baby (the momentum)

Although folding TPTK is probably a good rule of thumb in, say, NL10 FR you gotta observe the game, if your field is loose and raise-happy just cash out money with TPTK even if you are behind a few times Depends on how your opponent and your field plays.

Another afternoon session, decent session. Highlight hand is actually a loss.

MP limps preflop
everyone folds.
Im in BB with QQ, i raise to 16 cents.
MP calls.

Flop is AK8, terrible flop for queens, regardless I sent out a continuation bet, likely if he limp called he's got ATC.
So he calls, turn comes, I throw out another bet, nice lumpy one, he calls.
Obv I check the river and have now given up, he then bets 2 cents, the most aggrevating move in poker, Im thinking he's obviously sat there with a raggy ace like A3o or something, so i call with crazy odds of course, he turns over K4o, absolutely raging!! I thought I'd helped my tilt somewhat, clearly it needs alot more work. Only because this is a new laptop I did not hit it lol.

Check flop in that hand you have just described. We don't want to be cbetting 100% . Rather cbet like 99 or something . QQ perfect candidate to check. Not sure what your doing on that turn , value betting or bluffing ????

Half and half really, obvious fish, who could have ATC, i beat all pocket pairs, apart from AA and KK, which have a set anyway.

Of course he's going to be really wide preflop but the more money that goes into the pot the more his range will be weighted towards towards Ax and Kx heading to the river .

Keep it simple against these whales and value town them when you have it and keep the pot small when you have a marginal holding relative to the board.

Gl pal.

In,

nice grind station with the charts and everything!

GL

You should've smashed a keyboard or something. I had the same thing I was tilted AF and if only I smashed my monitor I'd avoided $6k bust down to zero

of next day I'd felt like a monkey without a monitor buy, hey!, if taking action needs small
casualties so be it :P

Another session, some more raging, really gets on my tits when I 3bet squeeze with AKs, and the board comes JJK, and they have J9o!!!!!! things will break lol, I thought I was easing my red line down, but seems Im still calling a little too much, or c betting a little too much.

I had the same too. I had AA, he had J9s and he turned quads OOP vs me and he played them PERFECTLY vs me. Just check calling it down via using non-strong timing, absolute reg of a fish. A real reg of a fish, a true master of calling J9s vs AA OOP and getting max value via calling down my AA while using perfect timing.

Sadly he got stacked vs somebody else in another hand in quite a foolish way, I didn't see him in the ZOOM pool anymore.

Nice recovery!! The big cEV drop there 4th quarter on the right side = TILT? :o

Q: why does this stuff tilt you? You're playing only $2, it's not $100 nl, $100 spins or $500 spins where you can lose a lot of money? Also, your cEV is so good you win solidly overall anyway.

Yes it was major tilt, started just potting every hand like an idiot, with ATC and any flop, and of course lost alot of money acting like an idiot IE: on tilt.

I know. Crushing for a while, then letting in a mistake or two and getting angry and then playing too needy chasing losses and having 1/3 of your winnings of the whole day gone 40 min later, then carrying the tilt over to the next day.

Are you at NL5z yet?

Had a profitable sessoin earlier which I didn't post, but had another one this evening, and wow what a messy one. all the way up to $8 profit, then I get done over in the usual fashion where I have pocket queens, and a queen on the flop, villan goes all in i obviously call with nuts, and he has 1 pair, but actually runner runners a straight!! Unbelievable! Especially as it was a $4.50 all in, of all the all-ins why is it that one I get done over on lol.

Also, what's up with 3betting in 2nl, people 3bet so damn light it's crazy, people are 3betting any suited ace. The worst is the blinds, players are way over protecting their blinds. Easy money for me I know, but when I see it happen so often I begin to think everyones reading the same book lol.




It was my birthday today/yesterday (May 21st) and my mum bless her who knows nothing about poker, knows that i'm quite into it and bought me this as a present bless her