Very legit brag, move up 5/10 and make a milly a year

Wow. Nice hand boywonder.

How come you decided to post now?

Good question. No idea.

thread delivers
congratz

OK, can I ask another? Just did! LMAO....



Ok, what kind of prep do you go through before a session? Playing hudless, on a number of tables must require excellent and sustained concentration; I would imagine that you are consistently looking for patterns and methods of the regs when you are not in the hand?

Do you take lots of notes on players, trying to highlight how they play groups of hands or board textures?

Do you have a mental checklist you go through before making a decision during a hand? I have been trying to develop this to prevent auto-piloting (a horrible form of tilt that costs me money) but am having trouble forming a consistent checklist and method.

very nice brag - congratz

OP, in general are you tight, average or loose preflop? Do you 3bet a lot? Are you agressive, average or more on the passive side?

Do you take notes on players?

Plz do make a video.

I go through a studious prep pregame, and I have papernotes around me that I use whilst playing. I have very specific tradition throughout the day. I always start, for instance, by reviewing yesterdays hands. I do take notes on players. Away from the table, even though i am not using a HUD, I will check on a players stats in PT. Do not get me wrong. The PT stats are very valuable, it is just that I personally feel they hinder me during gameplay and don´t allow me to form a complete picture of the regulars.

As for a check-lists, start small. Whenever somebody calls or raises you preflop, jusk ask yourself about his range of hands. You would not believe how many pros fail to ask themselves this one simple question (which they always used to when they were improving). We all know we should, and yet when we sit down we start autopiloting our usual abc game. We´re on the ball the first 5 minutes, and then go into droid mode. Just start out by doing this every time you have any preflop decisions. Then extend to the flop. Then extend to asking yourself about your perceived range (2nd level). If you have been autopiloting for the last 2 hrs, you will have no idea what he percieves your range to be, because you have no clue about your own image. You can add levels as you go on, but do not overdo it. And the absolute most important thing when faced with a big decision, is to first breathe and relax for a couple of seconds.

Have you ever noticed when you get sucked into a hand? Like you have an overpair and you get raised on the turn, you know you´re beat, and beofre you know it you have called anyway? Or what i call the bluff-vortex, when you start with small flop raise, and before you know it you have fired three barrells and you´re all in and get snapcalled by the nuts? What the hell just happened? A 200 bb pot lost out of nowhere!!? If, at any point, you would have just stepped back, taken a breath and realized how little sense your line makes or how narrow his range must be, you would have saved a stack. When you look at it in retrospect, it is very clear to you. This alludes to my earlier point; most of you guys are fine when it comes to the technical aspects of the game, but you need to hone some of the mental and emotional ones.

Mr Angelo...?

I am a 21/18/4. I like to play a lot of hands postflop, I flat way more than the average midstakes 3-bet addict. Still, 3-betting in position (and out of it, for that matter, as flatting OOP is often suicidal) has a lot of merits.

the guy is a str8 pimp

Keep up the good work man. Continue to post because these sorts of things actually inspire guys like me.

In another thread I made this comment:

My goal right now is to learn to love, and live for, improving myself by: Studying. So i have to learn to LOVE to STUDY because that is how I 'improve myself.'

My problem? How the hell do you convince yourself to love studying!!? I get distracted so easily. Maybe it's just ADD, who knows. I've improved a lot, but I should be better. I'm still way too results oriented. I still talk about bad beats all day. I still bitch and complain all the time, even though I know this is detrimental to the healthy mental state needed to improve easily and consistently.

Advice on how to get in and maintain the right mindframe?

op, you are xtreme

that is all

lol at "nobody except leatherass" beating midstakes for more than 3ptbb

vnh op

TY

OP is my idol.

I have a question if you have time to answer, whats the biggest downswing you have ever had?

Thanks

Solid.

Nice thread OP. Wish you continued success

Better to play 30 hours of solid poker a week than 60 hours of mediocre poker...

Thank you. Once again, as I said in the beginning, I think that almost anyone could achieve these results by just tweaking a few things. The differences between the 1-2 grinder and the 5-10 grinder are not as great as anyone but themselves would have you believe, but they have approached the game and the learning of the game differently, and the high stakes player has better emotional control, which is something that can be taught/trained.

I have diverted from my strict set of rules once since I started playing strictly cash games in january of 07. That diversion led to my biggest downswing, which is 19 buyins I believe (roughly 12 k), and a 45 k hand breakeven strectch. I have had a bunch of 8-10 buy-in downswings. I have never had a losing month, and went fulltime pro in feb / mar 08. I have won roughly 350 k or so playing poker (never really having played higher than 3/6). I have consistently beaten every level I have played, and trust me when I say I am no genius or poker prodigy.

Thank you for this. Very true. You would rather play 30 hours, win x amount at a high winrate and continuosly improve as a player, rather than play 60 hours, win only marginally more, and not improve in your play and your reads of specific opponents.

wow there's way too much solid advice in this thread. especially from someone with <100 posts.. kind of mind boggling.

boywonder,

I think you dismiss the HUD too soon. Maybe if you used it your winrate would increase, who knows. Why would you not want extra information that is contained in the stats. As long as you INTEPRET IT IN THE CORRECT WAY I'd say you should use a HUD.

Oh, and: