I am only going to be playing cash.

Hi. The only thing I can tell you is I wasn't losing to flushes, full houses, straights. If I had KK they had AA, If I had AA they had KK, and flopped or turned a King. If I had a pair, they made two pair on the river and shouldn't have even called my first PF raise. This was going on for a long time.

I wasn't losing to monster hands. I was losing to pure bad luck. This is not to say I have zero flaws in my game. Heck, I'm playing NL50, not NL400, and I continue to learn.

I've won my last four sessions. Not huge wins, but doubled my starting stack almost every time. I haven't had any great hands, mostly premium pairs that held up for the most part.

I've started taking better notes on players and staying focused on the one game I am in, and not looking at anything else on my second monitor.

Can you send me 5 hands that are 50bb+ that bother you the most and that you aren't sure of?

This couldn't have anything to do with winning sessions. Nope, no way.


Seriously though, everyone remembers the bad beats and forgets about the times their hand held up or they sucked out themselves. You have to keep records and be brutally honest with yourself.

Nice to see it turn around a bit ... Try to keep this in mind ... "Win the war, not every battle."

I (still) have issues where I will go 7 wins and 3 loses in hands and end up down in chips. Over committing to high variance hands creates major chip stack swings. Also going for too much value in weaker spots, especially online, can drain your stack.

Certainly the AA/KK spots will happen, but you don't mention any combo draw spots that can occur much more often and create 3-4 BI pots if multi-way.

You definitely see some pretty weak plays, like the AQ spot, but just know that you need to let them pass and it was a good fold 'at the time'. You want to be much more dominating, especially if playing for lots of BB. GL