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royalsu Canada. Jun 12 2008 07:06. Posts 3233

So my good run at 400nl has come to an end. I made 10k the first week of june and pretty much lost it all in the last 2 days, probably over 2k hands. I've gone back to being a calling station in spots where the other guy just can't be bluffing but I'll convince myself he has a flush draw, or tell myself he is value betting thin so I'll raise him with tpgk.

I still think I can beat 400nl but I'm taking a couple days off to work on controlling my mental state while playing. The worst mindset to be in while playing is to constantly think that people are bluffing you. Since most of the regs are playing 19/16 tag, they're really not bluffing you often because they usually have a medium strength hand to begin with. There's a decent amount of double barreling but 3-barrel bluffs are so rare. I think what happens is that I see a reg squeeze and 3-barrel with 35s and then think that he does that all the time. But in reality he was squeezing for legitimate reasons (i.e. the coldcaller was a station and ended up peeling the flop with overs) and then triple barreled because the King and Ace hit on the turn/river. The thing to realize is that this was selective aggression in a particular spot against a particular opponent. His play was actually very good in that spot, and that image ended up costing me a buyin later on.

girl update: she still tilts me but whatever, i think it's worth it for now.

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