So I played two sessions of NL50 to regain confidence and won like 5bi easy running at like 7ptbb.
Then I go play some NL100 FR first then 6max after.
I keep getting rivered by donks. I'm getting owned by the line c/c c/c donk shove while valuebetting overpairs vs donks. Cbet success is below 30% because they always flop top pair, and my AQ,AJ,KQ are always dominated by flopped two pairs.
Naturally, playing 127 hands and then getting rivered 3 times in a row by 50/10 fish will put me on pretty nice tilt, so I usually resort to playing some video games.
I've been playing Super Mario Kart with Ket and his friend Neil lately, which is pretty good at de-tilting me. It's pretty funny because I run bad in poker but I run pretty hot in SMK. The last time I played Ket he quit out of 2player battle mode, loaded up a single player course (while I was still in the game) and drove backwards, picking up coins and saying valuetown.
They're not usually on when I am though, so like two days ago I started playing Super Mario 64 on my N64 emulator. Whenever I have a bad session I play it.
I already beat the game and have 120 stars.
So seeing as I'm currently doomswitched and am having tons of bad sessions, I need you guys to list some awesome PSX, N64, and SNES games for me to play when I'm on tilt. Thanks.
EDIT: BTW I keep having these sessions where I play like 150 hands and then get owned by donks. Here's what it's like:
Haven't posted my sessions or graphs recently, so I'll post some epic fail:
Recent sessions, last one being NL50:
Lifetime:
I don't know what's going on. I am running spectacularly under EV, but I'm not sure if that's all that's happening or I just opened up like 10 leaks without realizing it.
I'm pretty sure I'm playing winning poker, but how can I drop like half my roll in 15k hands? Standard variance or am I doing something wrong?
So since my epic fail at the NL200 shot (rofl -5bi variance'd over 1k hands), and coupled with a bit of running bad at NL100, my confidence is totally shot.
I was talking with some people on aim/msn and figured the best idea would be to temporarily move down to something like NL50, stomp on some people, and then come back up.
I'm going to go one step further though; I'm going to withdraw a little over 1k from my Stars bankroll and deposit it on two sites to take advantage of the soft games and bonuses. Before I do that, I'm also going to ask my brother for a short loan of 1k to take advantage of the Stars reload bonus.
I'll have a solid working roll for NL100 on stars, but I'm going to grind out some NL50 and NL100 at the other sites as well. Assuming all goes well and I clear the bonuses, I should have enough money to take another shot at NL200.
I might be a bit scared, but I will crush it like this:
You know those days where you're running hot in the sense that you're getting tons of overpairs and hitting TPTK vs fish all the time? But then the board runs out like crap and you realize you just lost to the majority of the fish's calling range (e.g. flop 653 two clubs, turn 7, river 6c), so you check to him and he puts out like a halfpot bet which you call and muck to an obvious rivered flush?
Or when you call down a fish on a paired board because you know he's full of it, only for an ace to hit the river where he suddenly checks to you? Then you rofl check behind and obv get owned by AK.
Or those sessions where your cbets fail about 70% of the time?
When it happens for weeks, and you haven't been on a heater for ages, it really kills your confidence and makes you wonder how much of an edge you really have.
So for the PokerStars milestone bonus, I noticed there were like 90k hands left until the next milestone, so I instantly joined as many of the penny fixed limit tables and auto posted my blinds.
LOL FREE TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS
I was also dealt AK but lost to J4 on A48J2 board.
AA vs 97 3bet pot bvb vs donk 939 flop
AQ vs KK aipf, I squeezed and he 4bet me when I was very sure he'd 4bet me with his whole range in that spot
QhJd vs 33 Q32ddd board aiflop vs 100% flop cbet raiser
JJ vs 77 3bet pot vs donk flop 972
AK vs KK aipf bvb
QQ vs 87 T974 ai turn two pair river
QJ vs 89 9J5 board, called c/r on flop and checked down where he rivered two pair.
AQ vs AJ 3bet pot, floated me on 696 and backdoored a flush
TT vs A9s 876 board backdoored a flush 27.5 cbet success rate. My cbet was raised on the flop over 50% of the time by passive players. This was across multiple tables.
Dropped 5bi total, ran 2bi under expectation.
This really sucks because I've only played 3800 hands of NL200 and didn't get enough time to even adjust to the regs here.
Time to make my shot at NL200. My goal all the way since grinding the pennies at NL2 was to become an NL200 regular, and I'm right there. This is mainly because the hourly and yearly you can get from grinding NL200.
If I can be a consistent winner here, I will start cashing out money for myself at some point for the first time.
Are there any other suggestions? It only took me 3 months from being a struggling player at NL25 to beat NL100. I'm sure there are probably a few people advocating moving up as aggressively as possible until I'm not a winner or my winrate becomes very very small, but I think NL200 is a good spot to start. The way I looked at it was: 3k hands a day at 3ptbb weekdays only is nearly 100k a year. 2ptbb (which I'm confident I can do) is more than a lot of people out of college.
I'm really excited to have made it this far, especially since I just came out of NL100 with 3 sessions for an 8.5bi upswing. I've been beating both 6max and fullring, and my confidence is at an all time high.
NL100 stats since second shot
Side note, I ran at 6evptbb at 6max and 5evptbb in fullring this month
And with that, I'm out of small stakes for now! MIDSTAKES LOL
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