Wow is that holdem?

yeah NLH SH and this is not my biggest EV Swing ever.

Those stretches are incredibly hard to deal with mentally, try to use them to work harder on your Game and consider Mental Game a vital Part of your overall Toolbox. Check out Jared Tendler, Elliot Roe or Tommy Angelo to get some Mental Game inspirations.

glgl

Yeah thanks it just sucks I cant even have the joy of winning in poker or running good for a session because its never happened to me in my entire life. Never bad beated anyone, My stats show ive actually lost money with my aces, kings, and queens, it literally doesnt matter what i do I could have GTO completely memorized and i would still lose literally every single time I play its truly unreal.

pitying urself definitiely wont be helpful, keep working and outgrind the variance. The long run takes long

ive been studying like crazy im back playing 1/2 live and crushing

Here is a vid from a guy who went true a 65 BI down swing ( See video at 4hour 4 mins mark) and he is a 10bb/100 winner.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zg...xaT6&index=177

Variance can be brutal..

Nothing wrong with being a degen OP

And oh- move up to where they respect your raises

Im up 2800 at 1/2 in like 35 hours

Good luck man!

I have a similar story. I'm playing against nits that fold everything and when they do play they hand they get nice runouts and improve when behind hitting their 2 outer with 1 card to come. Crazy RNG on ACR and iginition almost seems rigged.

They can give you an even card distribution, yeah you get AA the expected amount except when you get it you get all folds and when they get it its a cooler they give you JJ, QQ, KK, AK, etc.
When I draw with 8+ outs with 2 cards never hits 5 times in a row: .77^5 = 27% likely OKKK BAD VARIANCE
Meanwhile they hit their 1 card 2 outer or runner runner flush, runner runner pair the board with AA to counterfeit my full-house and chop with trips, multiple times. FYI I don't need 1 million hand sample, .04^3 = 0.0064% --> BULLSHIT

https://www.investopedia.com/managin...aying-lottery/
odds of getting stung by a wasp, dying = 0.000017% --> BULLSHIT
odds of winning the powerball = 0.0000000034% --> BULLSHIT
odds of getting struck by lightning and dying in a given year = 0.00000082% --> BULLSHIT

meanwhile

https://globalnews.ca/news/4376841/wasp-sting-allergy/


https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/20/u...ner/index.html


https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...paddleboarding

wow, that is disgusting.

Alright, listen up

I think people are being too hard on you. Everyone goes through downswings, but everyone also finds the first one really hard.

Some people find them hard forever, they're just good enough at strategy to compensate for less good mental game.

Some comments are right that it isn't productive to try to control your results v EV disparity. It isn't something you can control. Of course focusing on improving is better.

However, you're allowed to feel shitty.

One productive mindset shift: brutal downswings are like a course in your poker degree, only you don't get to control when that course starts. You are in mental game training right now. People haven't prepared you for this, but now is a unique opportunity to improve at an underrated and very real part of success. Dive into mental game work with the same enthusiasm you've tackled strategy. You will come out of this a stronger and more consistent player.

Thanks for the kind words. I was in a bad place mentally at the time but I think that downswing was the best and most important thing I could have ever went through as a poker player and person. In fact I’m happy that it happened when I first started playing. It made me realize I was delusional about being good at poker, and that I thought I was much better than I really was. In fact I think my strategy back then was extremely high variance which probably was the cause of the results I was getting. I began studying solvers daily after the downswing and really started putting tons of effort into becoming a better player. Since then I’m happy to say that things have completely turned around for me. I began playing 1/2 around 2-3 months ago and since then I’m up over $5000 and have been crushing even with the high rake environment I’m playing in (1/2 no limit 300 max). It’s amazing to see the hard work that I put in showing positive results. I’ll update here again soon, I’m planning to shot take 2/5 or even just move up to 2/5 with the bankroll I have now and hopefully that goes well. Thanks everyone for the advice.

Would love to hear you’re experiences playing for a living as I’m still deciding if it would be a good idea for me to pursue. Right now I’m working as a brush and trying to move up to be a poker dealer but I know my passion is for playing poker, and I really believe that I could make it work. Also I’m curious to see how much gtowizard has improved you’re game and if it’s worth purchasing the full version, as I’m going to purchase the gtowizard ai once it releases its multi-way post flop solver.

I see your problem. You consistently go down around the + $ or BB 400 mark.
You should cash out when you are the top. You are riding the wave to the bottom. Buy low sell high man.

To be serious, I think you are flipping to much. Stop doing that.
Personally, I only flip with AA or KK in cash games, all the rest goes in the bin.
I play better postflop than racing being a marginal favorite.

If you 3-bet someone and they 4-bet, just call and see what happens.
You have QQ and no A or K on the flop, then do whatever you want
If you 3-bet or 4-bet and they shove, let them have it.

Hey guys just wanted to make an update. Around 5 months ago I got a job that gave me a real bankroll to play. I started at 1/2 and won a couple thousand live and online around 7k. Around a month ago I started playing 2/5 and I'm up around 4k. I played two tournaments and cashed in both of them for 2.1k profit. I actually haven't had a losing session playing live in around 8 sessions i can't even remember the last time it happened. I studied so so so hard and became a much better player. I can say now that when I first made this post I was a pretty terrible player. I didn't fully understand the game yet and I had problems with tilt. I had almost no idea of any GTO concepts much less opening ranges. I am probably on a sun run right now but the bankroll is looking very good, I'll update soon so you can see if I'm actually a crusher or just a lucky donk. Feel free to ask me any questions.

About half of the time your winrate will result in a loss over 20k hands. That makes your results almost meaningless.

F**k you!

Well that can only mean that game is not rigged enough. Not enough rigged game increases variance, because obviously everybody expects that game is rigged to maximum and software is adjusted to it.

If anyone is still interest I quit my job and decided to pursue poker full time at the age of 21 around a month and a half ago. At the time I was up a bit more than 20k and had a 16k bankroll. Since quitting I’m up around 18k-20k and my bankroll is now over 30k. I’ve been playing mostly 2/5 live cash but I have played a few tournaments and I’ve come top 10% on all of them even winning a 10k guarenteed for 3k. When I initially made this post I would have never imagined that I’d be where I am today in such a short amount of time. If anyone is going through what I was just know that all the study and hard work you put into improving your game is worth it and the results will come as long as you have good bankroll management and a good poker mindset. I’m playing over 50 hours a week now 2/5 live buying in for 500 and hoping to continue the sun run. I truly believe that I can make 60k+ a year playing poker and I’m gonna make it happen!

I started tracking my results in 2024 and these are my results for the first 24 days.

You never bad beat anyone?

Looking at a solver doesn't make you a good poker player. Everyone looks at solvers unless they don't have a computer. There is a lot more dynamic to poker then using a solver. The fact you don't understand variance you are still a noob learning the game.