Thanks man Yeah sure.

Fanboys ITT

Hey guys,

Not sure what is going on atm . I started May playing the best Poker I'd ever played; I felt each day was A++ Poker from me and the reviews evidenced so. But lately (over the last 4 days or so) I've spewed 4 stacks and just not been happy with my play in general. Maybe it is some subconscious tilt creeping through from the downswing? Still not sure, either way it has left me pretty disappointed with myself, as the results are partly down to me playing horribly.

Sorry if this is crappy to read. I made this PG&C to track my results, meet new people, discuss hands, get new insights into other minds and just "blog" about my Poker journey. I suppose there needs to be bad days for you to be able to define others as good, too.

Some hands:

1. Vs aggressive reg who I have noted that can "jam draws". We make 22bb shoving here vs AQdd/KdKh/99/QQ/JsTs/JdTd, but who knows if that range is accurate. Thoughts?

2. Vs an unknown guy. I really hate posting these hands as I almost find it embarrassing. I can only hope the task of posting these will help stop me from doing these stupid things!!

3. Vs maniac. His line made little sense unless he actually has 9Ts which there are only 2 combo's of. I think 89s bet flop and overpairs/sets don't bet so big. Thoughts? FWIW I fold vs 90% of players but this guy has 86% AFQ OTR over a decent sample.

Since last update:

Woopsie. Keep going

As simple as that may sound, that helps more than you think. Thank you.

Downswings can be long and hard and we've all been there. Keep posting keep analyzing and keep smiling.

Point about posting...I never post results and I tend to cut the post at the key point in the hand. It is virtually impossible for anybody to give a clear opinion when they can see the results.

I prefer that you guys sweat my decisions with me...if the hand is really interesting you can post results later.

Take the AA hand...I'm saying dude has a set all day long...I'm also saying yeah, I get stacked here if I'm honest.

Gotcha, that's a fair point. The results are posted because I'd prefer to see someone's results if I followed their PG&C, as opposed to them keeping it hidden (nothing wrong with doing so). Plus I want to be able to make them THIN BRAGS!!

From tomorrow I am going to be halving my tables of ZOOM, from 4 down to 2, until (at least) the end of the month. I know that I am not playing optimally when 4 tabling and I believe that employing this approach will help me to play the best I can, and whilst doing so, I will hopefully be able to spot some differences between the two.

Hey guys

Hope everyone's well

I've been on a somewhat hiatus from the tables recently, partly due to me wanting to study and work on my game a lot, and also due to me losing some confidence at my results. I know that losing is a big part of Poker - I clearly have some mental leaks in that department which need to be worked on.

The studying has been going very well. I have been setting myself daily goals on what I want to be working on and so far I haven't missed one. I've also set up some "tools" in Excel which are helping me work on spots that I am otherwise a bit lost on.

These are my results for the month, they will be the month ending results give or take a few K hands as I plan to continue my studying schedule until June:-

16NL:

25NL:

Month overall:

I think it's only natural to feel bad about results when things aren't going your way. In some ways, it would be more concerning if you said "I lost several buyins and felt no emotion whatsoever". Who wants to be an emotionless robot, anyway?
A bit of studying (and some rungood when you get back in the game) will turn things around I'm sure. A little break from the tables often works wonders, as anyone with human emotions needs a bit of time for residual tilt to subside. With any luck, next month's graph will be the opposite way round. GL!

You are running really really bad given that blue line.
Red line is also somewhat worrying. If you were Mr. Bluffmeister, your red line would be more positive, while blue line would go down.
It's maybe a good idea to get couple hours of coaching to help you find out some basic leaks.
Remember that zoom has a ton of variance. You could table select normal tables to reduce variance at least for a while.
Best of luck making through the tough stretch!

can someone explain me why is Clantys blue line very low. Is that bc he is going to sd very wide/bluffcatch etc. or consequnece of setups and coolers?

BTW GL Clanty! I am following this thread it is very interesting.

Could be bluffing too much or in bad spots. But I doubt that because his red line wouldn't be that bad. Also could be alot of setups or going to showdown and calling river bets with weak hands too often.

Could be loads of different things tbh

I actually do bluff more than the general population. My red line before this month over 100k hands was -3bb/100 which is far more than most at the micro's. It was also breakeven for the first 12k hands of the 25NL graph as you can see, albeit dropping significantly afterwards. I will attribute a good portion of it to runbad, but I definitely have a tonne of leaks as you said which I am working on daily to fix.

I would love to get some coaching, but I am not really in the right place to afford such privileges.

Thanks for the reply

Thanks a lot Arty!! These are the things I wanna hear

Yeah I am no robot haha, there were definitely a few pillow-punching episodes lol!

Let's hope next month takes a foot in the opposite direction

I would attribute a last portion of the low blue line to coolers mate. I do do my fair share of bluffing from time to time, but even after that my blue line is usually positive.

Welcome btw

Yeah just ****ty spots I think mate. How's Poker treating you?

Thanks for everyone's feedback. Gives me that extra motivation

A break is definitely a good thing to take. No one is a robot. Respect for being transparent with your results and being active on here when running bad. Not enough people do that and even better you're responding to everyone in the right way and not just purely bitching because you're on a downswing.

GL for June (not that you'll need it).

Cheers man appreciate it!

Plus one to that and also other good advice. From the old timer, I offer you this.

Be humble and never forget...

When we are winning we are not as good as we think we are, and when we are losing we are not as bad as we think we are.

Very nice! I like the tranquility of it all, don't you?

Just finished off with a mini sesh because I was bored out of my mind, I ended up

1. Vs unknown.

2. So weird... CO is a very standard 23/18/7 reg and I think he raises the turn >90% of the time with 9T, SB is unknown. Thoughts?

3. Bad river to barrel on. I was going broke on a 5 FWIW. Vs 24/19/7 over 122 hands.

4. Wut. X turn because I was feeling sneaky. Vs 25/20/6 171 hands. Pretty clear call otr given my line.

5. Lmao


Ended up +1bi over 500 hands, confirmed 20bb crusher.

Don't think I do much different on anything here...except maybe the o/bet turn on hand one? Hand 5...lol, snap mark for posting for the guyz

The 88 hand is very weird. SB's play (especially his bet-sizing going from big to tiny) is bizarre. Since he bet 95% of pot on the flop, I'd be slightly concerned it's jacks, but I think I'd raise immediately, as I don't want the other two players calling with flush and straight draws. (It's a rare spot where you might do better by making some worse hands fold). Just about every turn card between a Q and 4 that doesn't pair the board is bad for you, and your EV might be maximised by folding out the players that have position on you, as they can play more or less perfectly when you just flat. EV-wise, calling should be fine too though; it's just going to be harder to play. Once you call, you kind of have to just call down, as you can't raise on that runout.

The OB OTT was interesting. I felt like I had huge FE vs him and clearly the implied if he calls. What does "snap mark for posting for the guyz" mean? Thx for the reply

Yeah SB's play is very weird... Raising flop and calling flop both have their pro's and cons. My buddy pointed out something pretty important when going through it after in PT4, which was that 67 is also OE'd (I only saw 9T at the time). I am still not sure what I prefer doing... raising definitely seems better than what it did at the time after realising there is another combo of OESD on the board, though. I guess if the guys behind me call raises/go broke with their draws then raising is 100% the correct decision. Cheers mate

Nuffin much...just fun to share weird stuff villains do. I call it "free chip fun". Poker can be pretty intense a lot of the time, so when villain just auto ships his stack over it nice to share it. Makes us realise poker's not always one tuff muvver.

Ahh lol gotcha. I don't share a lot of those hands as they are completely standard from my side.

I'll chuck this one in, though, as I'm sure you will like it . It was about a week ago - when I saw his hand I just began to laugh lmao