LOL wat. Gus goes on $1m downswings cause he's ****ing terrible

Gus is pretty good imo, just a sucker at deep stacked PLO and nosebleed NLHE--he's up 5 mil over the last half year!

Btw, I'm pretty sure I lost $100 that I didn't have to lose by multi-tabling. No more multi-tabling hu sngs for me, unless a fish (and it'd have to be a pretty egregious one) requests 2 tables

Doing a mini HU 4 ROLLZ in an hour with someone I've logged a lot of time playing live with--unfortunately, he's one of the last people I wanted to take me up on an open challenge (something I've always wanted to do), but I'll take what I can get

Playing best of 11 hu sngs at the $22 level, I pay his rake--if I win, I get $200 from him; if he wins, he gets $250 from me--his online stats are actually quite solid, so should be interesting

Ugh, first day where I've not played well in a long time. Lost the HU 4 rollz 9-8 (after it was tied 5-5, we decided we both wanted to play more games), which really stung--my opponent played really well but enjoyed the benefit of a couple of major coolers. Shipped $267 to him for losing the bet. Then proceeded to enjoy a 3 hour long breakeven fest against fish. By the end of that, 3 hours of sleep and not having eaten for 24 hours finally caught up to me, dropped a bunch of games to a gigantic fish. Self-excluded myself, earned 1600 FTPs today. BR is down to $3.65k (including sidebet $ lost)

Rebounded yesterday from a disappointing session yesterday to have a big win in live cash while playing super tired (but super focused nevertheless) and then have a great day today to make ~$430, almost went super deep in an mtt, too, was playing really well and then got coolered with flopped top two against a flopped straight

Btw, proud of myself for making myself take a break after being sucked out on by a fish and feeling tilt on the way, and then taking a break later when tired after 9 straight games -- if I can keep at this I think I can save myself a lot of $ lost from being tilted/tired

BR $4.4kish (sidebet from hu 4 rollz ended up being deducted from my live roll instead of online)

Wow, just ran super ridiculously under ev, miraculously didn't tilt but it didn't matter, as I just kept getting 2 outed or losing 70-30s again and again and again

Comeback to finish even for the night, feeling great about how I am handling tilt

This sounds like a wild day

Made a little over $200 tonight, including shipping a $22 6 max turbo sng I felt like playing while not being able to get sat for any games

BR $4.6kish

Just realized I've made $2k over the last two weeks, prorating to $50k+/year -- heh, obviously super-optimistic (especially in light of the fact that I am running at least neutral EV over that span of time), but I have faith that such a goal is realistic, esp given that I will eventually move up to and expect to maintain an edge at 110s and possibly higher

I am feeling really good about my game right now, mostly in that I'm doing a lot of things I didn't used to do which in the aggregate should be quite +EV: taking breaks between multiple opponents or when I feel tired, taking more notes on opponents, preemptively banning myself when I know I'm going to be tired/busy/lifetilted over the next 24 hours, game selecting better (attributed in part due to finally purchasing sharkscope), doing a much better job not tiltchatting, watching CR videos during lunch break at work (mostly mtts, but I think any video helps aid in my general poker thought process), allowing myself to quit for the night after a loss (I used to be hellbent on finishing the night on a win), recognizing tilt setting in much faster and accordingly taking a short break to cool off, not allowing myself to be so obsessed with poker as often when I'm not playing, etc..

I'm still sort of on lifetilt but hopefully the improved attitude will translate to the rest of my life

check out the program called tiltbreaker. Seems like a program that would be perfect for you. Basically what it does is it allows you to set limits (losses / games played etc). If those limits are reached, it will block you from keep playing on ftp / stars. Cant bypass it by restarting computer etc. Dunno if it also works for SNGs, but it works for cash games. (Havent used it myself tho)

Kara, are you a bird?

Sorry if this has been made plain in pevious posts.

Following your thread with interest btw. Looks like you've got the tilt/patience issue more or less under control.
Good luck.... dude/dudette?

Thanks for the rec--I'm familiar with tiltbreaker and have considered purchasing it. Psychologically, though, I'm someone who needs a lot of flexibility in things and it's tough for me to be comfortable with an option ever being 100% off limits. I'm probably going to charge on without it.

I'm a dude--is it the Kara part that's confusing people, or does my long-winded writing make it seem like I'm a dudette? Second time it's been asked itt and it's weirding me out. FWIW, my name comes from the book The Brothers Karamazov.

made just under $200 tonight, probably ran above EV--with ~$90 rakeback coming in tomorrow BR should be between $4.85k and $4.9k, still feeling really good

55s lifetime graph--tilt sessions couldn't be more apparent:

all time hu sng graph, including shootouts:

Yep, the detailed, ( I wouldn't have said long-winded) writing and the felling cranky factor lead me to assume.........wrong.
Sorry for any any offence I may have caused, and thanks for answering.
As I have said before...Good luck fella.

It's all good, Springy, thanks for the good wishes

Really, really good last 24 hours: crushed my live game last night for my biggest score ever there, then today played hu sngs all afternoon and finished around $+600. This leads me to an observation: I've noticed there tends to be a considerable difference in my play over the weekend versus during week nights--I think I play a lot better over the weekend b/c I'm not playing after a really long day of work, am typically in a better mood, and don't feel rushed to cram a bunch of games into not enough free time. Makes me wonder what life would be like as a pro. Anyways, just glad I'm still consistently playing my A game and avoiding tilt

Only regret for today is that I played the $216 turbo hu tournament and busted in the first round, got unlucky but also made a bad shove postflop--I was half-staked, so lost $108 for the tourney.

BR is $5.34k right now, pretty close to where I left off a little over a month ago, pretty huge turnaround from around February 10, when I think my BR had plummeted down to $2.7k

Updated all-time NLHE hu sng (including 4 mans) graph, hope my line stays so vertical:



stat to add: 9% ROI over last month (445 games)

I don't know what your name is on Tilt but good luck recovering. And that 3-0 you had on me before was probably just variance

Just got "Scott Montgomery"'ed--he sucked out on me to win the first two games then snap declined when I won the third game

Full Tilt Poker $55 + $2.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t15/t30 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 1220705
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

ScottMontgomery (BTN/SB): t1225 40.83 BBs
Hero (BB): t1775 59.17 BBs

Pre Flop: (t45) Hero is BB with J 6
ScottMontgomery raises to t60, Hero raises to t150, ScottMontgomery calls t90

Flop: (t300) J 6 5 (2 players)
Hero bets t140, ScottMontgomery raises to t330, Hero raises to t1625 all in, ScottMontgomery calls t745 all in

Turn: (t2450) Q (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t2450) A (2 players - 2 are all in)



Full Tilt Poker $55 + $2.50 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t20/t40 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 1220706
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

ScottMontgomery (BTN/SB): t2150 53.75 BBs
Hero (BB): t850 21.25 BBs

Pre Flop: (t60) Hero is BB with Q A
ScottMontgomery calls t20, Hero raises to t115, ScottMontgomery raises to t2150 all in, Hero calls t735 all in

Flop: (t1700) 5 3 6 (2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t1700) 6 (2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t1700) K (2 players - 2 are all in)



BR is just above $5k right now--have been running decently below EV the last week

Quick update: things are still going well, BR atm is $5.65k, ROI over my last 130 is +11%, and that's despite running a bit under EV. I'm very happy with my game. More than anything else, though, I'm proud that I've been mostly keeping my tilt in check--I've had a couple of meh episodes lately (rematching infinitely against a reg who was giving me trouble for ego reasons, a little bit of tiltchat (not mean-spirited)), but all in all I'm doing a much, much better job at controlling tilt than I used to and have faith that tilt will continue to be less of a problem.

My problem lately has been MUCH LONGER waiting times getting games. Don't know if it's more because of making $3k in 5 weeks at the 55s (thinly veiled brag) or because spring is approaching and people are playing less poker or [insert other reason], but the fact of the matter is that I am finding myself waiting 3x as long for an average game as I used to and it's endangering my profitability.

Another emerging issue is that, at least at the times I play during weeknights (8 PM - 11 PM EST weeknights), the $110s seem to be almost totally dead. I've been scouting them for the last two weeks and it seems like there simply aren't enough fish to go around for the numerous really solid regs. (btw, jackxer, if you're reading this, I'd appreciate your opinion on this) As such, I'm kind of worried about moving up--right now it seems like it'd be more profitable to multitable $55s rather than sit and wait forever at a $110. Problem is, I'm pretty terrible right now at multitabling hu tables, as my game is less structural and more read-based.

Another thing I've been thinking about lately is coaching/training sites/participating in strategy talks on this site. As of right now, in contrast to seeking out training for other varieties of poker, I've done maybe 3 hours total of husng training/studying/etc.., and I'm proud that I've been able to make it so far on my own and by learning primarily through experience. That being said, I realized the other week watching the one video I've ever watched (primo, CR) that videos could prove quite useful in continuing to develop my game, which is important as I move up. I think it might be worthwhile to get a one month premium subscription to husng.com and watch some of the best videos. As far as coaching/forum strat talk stuff goes, I don't think pursuing either would prove very useful to me right now--I learn much better by sweating live sessions and figuring things out on my own.

Btw, don't know how many members of the hu sng community read this, but I would really appreciate it if people could point me to the best husng.com videos via PM--I doubt I'll be able to watch more than 10/month so quality is really important to me

try asking on the husng forums for more info on this.

following hokies thread he says that both skates and mersennearys videos are really good for game theory and math aspects