more than I want to think about

Well, if you're a long term 4-5ptbb winnner and you sometimes spew, i guess regs do.

I don't spew and win about that, so maybe I'm not talented enough to win 5ptbb and spew sometimes.

Only when moving up.

Are you Jennifer Garner?

If we didnt make a single spewy play in a session we wouldnt be in ssnl surely. That said, I seem to have a spewy session at least once a week, which is worrying.

if you aren't spewing sometimes then you are probably playing like a vag

i never do this towards the beginning of sessions. i do it once in a while towards the end.

I'll regularly do it at the start of a session, esp if its in the morning. 90% of the time I have a bad spewy session there is a solid reason why I shouldnt have sit down to play

Spewing and playing like an idiot is not the same thing. If you're often playing like an idiot, you're probably an idiot.

ah damn!

I think there is a difference between playing aggressive and good poker, and between tilt. I classify spew as tilt. So spewwing sometimes doesnt have to do anything with playing like a vag. Nits tilt, and they are playing like vags.

i spew about once a fortnight, basically a session where nothing seems to go right... Last night was a good example, I drop 4 buy-ins in about 10mins, grind it back to minus 1buy-in and then lose a 200bb pot, within 3 mins i made a dubious 4 bet bluff, got away with it but i immediately closed my tables.
The fact i can now just book a small loss has improved my winrate no end.

As for other regs, they spew a lot imo at nl100 / and ofter at nl200.

Probably around 5PTBB/100 lifetime in pure spew

no-one plays perfect poker. In general, you will either error on the side of not putting enough money in the pot or putting too much money in. I see the latter as "spew". Hence the statement "if you aren't spewing sometimes then you are probably playing like a vag" holds true.

thoughts?

Agree. This is what's referred to in OP though.

I don't get this at all. Having had a bad session doesn't necessarily mean having been spewy. A multistreet bluff for example always looks like spew if you get called. Now if this happens three times within a session, this just qualifies as spew whereas it's close to standard if the bluffs work out?
Blaming poor winrates on spew is probably like blaming them on running bad - it just palliates some substantial mistakes we're making every session.

This became a discussion on semantics. Imo spew is putting a lot of money in the pot in spots where you should not. This doesn't necessarily mean making big mistakes or idiotic plays.

When OP said: "OK, so I sit down this afternoon and play like an idiot." I did not take it he meant: "OK, so I sit down this afternoon and lose alot by making some marginally bad decisions."

i don't tilt hardly at all, but i feel spewey from time to time.

i think it has to do with all your bluffs being called in 1 session, it's just variance. if you are getting no respect and you continue to bluff like a maniac then that is spew, and is just bad poker, plain and simple

Perhaps a lot of the spew we are talking about is results oriented. We have a session where we bluff a lot and it all comes off, we are god's gift to poker. Another time we lose 4 BIs and feel like an idiot.

This thread as made me feel much better about myself.

Ftr, I spew once per hand.

how exactly do you mean when you say you spew? is somthing like this classed as spew? Or is it somthing with 0 equity and your just blindly shoving hoping they will fold?

i think i do this too much

$2.00/$4.00 - No Limit Hold'em - 12:14:02 - 2007/11/19
Seat 4: rizzla87 ($204.90)
Seat 5: LAPRUNE222 ($299.00)
Seat 6: Matrixwolf ($445.00)
Seat 1: HERO ($394.00)
Seat 2: paris55 ($200.00)
Matrixwolf posts the small blind of $2.00
HERO posts the big blind of $4.00
paris55 posts $4.00
rizzla87 posts a dead small blind of $2.00
rizzla87 posts $4.00
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO[Ad Qh]
paris55 checks
rizzla87 checks
LAPRUNE222 calls $4.00
Matrixwolf calls $2.00
Superuser363 raises to $30.00
paris55 folds
rizzla87 folds
LAPRUNE222 calls $26.00
Matrixwolf folds
*** FLOP *** [Jd 2h Js]
Superuser363 bets $52.00
LAPRUNE222 calls $52.00
*** TURN *** [Jd 2h Js] [Th]
HERO checks
LAPRUNE222 bets $55.00
HERO raises to $312.00 and is all-in
LAPRUNE222 calls $162.00 and is all-in
Uncalled bet of $95.00 returned to Superuser363
*** SHOW DOWN ***
HERO shows [Ad Qh]
LAPRUNE222 shows [6h Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 2h Js Th] [5d]
*** SUMMARY ***
Board: [Jd 2h Js Th 5d]
LAPRUNE222 collects $610.00

I dumped a few buyin's last night. I tilt very rarely, but something wound me up last night. It's more embarrassing than anything esle. And it does suck that I have to grind the money back when I basically gave it away.

Hi there Superuser363! Thought I'd be a good friend and quote this for you.

gee thanks?