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failsafe United States. Sep 23 2008 13:33. Posts 1040

Poker has not been going well!

I've been playing poker seriously for about a month. I used to play a bit on and off and had the advantage of some free knowledge from Myth when he was still a NL100/200 player. Beyond that I also had/have the advantages of some good starcraft friends on this site who play poker. I don't ask for a lot of advice these days because I've been able to improve my understanding and my play quite a bit by just examining my thought processes and my previous hands.

I've been playing NL25 and put in a good number of hands - maybe 100k between some sessions 4 tabling and others mass multitabling. My first week was unsuccessful - I hit a heater when I started, and then expected it to continue so I tilted away the winnings. I hovered around my initial $400 deposit for the 2nd week as I was on a bit of a bad run and still had quite a few leaks. On my third week I'd rid myself of many tiltish tendencies and ran fairly well on the final Sunday, bringing my BR up to $1k. I was rolled for NL50, but decided not to move up.

My computer was having some trouble with FTP so I decided to wait until I built a new computer to move up to NL50. I didn't like the idea of autochecking/mucking NL50 hands on account of my software freezing. So while I was waiting for new parts, I continued to play NL25, feeling that I had a significant edge. My plan was to continue to build a roll so that when I finished building a new computer, I could start NL50 with a healthy buffer in case I couldn't beat the game or ran badly.

I've done just the opposite. Over a fairly health sample, about 25k hands, I've lost ~14 BI from my peak winnings and I'm quite shaken that I've consistently lost over such a large sample. I'm not entirely confident in my play yet and I do alternate between a nitter style and a looser style, depending on my number of tables and level of concentration, but I'm not sure that alternating pf preferences is any explanation for this depressing last week and a half.

In any case, a lot of players say (and I agree) that you can beat NL25 playing as nittily as 12/10 or more loosely such as 25/20. When I examine my game, I feel like I've adapted to the full tilt NL25 game from my original practice at the stars NL25 game and that I'm better than I was when I started. When I reflect on my own ideas of my abilities and comments by Myth, Baal and others in edge vs expectation arguments I am really concerned that my losses over these last 25k hands mean that I am totally missing something

Ugh, I feel like I should be capable of posting a moderate, consistent winrate such as 2-3PTBB/100 at NL25 because I don't tend to tilt too often and as far as I can tell my abc poker is acceptable... But with my recent results totally contradicting my confidence I'm quite confused.

Anyway I'm determined to improve my poker game and thanks to my efforts on FTP, I'm able to purchase the cardrunners subscription, so hopefully this will help me improve. Speaking of which, I have no idea how I'll receive the subscription from FTP since their email confirmation suggested I'd receive a package by mail, but that would a really awkward way to ship an onilne subscription, and it would take forever.

Prob gonna get back to playing a bit more today. I've taken a couple day break, logging less than a thousand hands yesterday and none the two days before. Both yesterday and today I've managed to lose a little more than a BI and log off. Here's hoping tonight will go a bit better.

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p4ge Canada. Sep 23 2008 14:35. Posts 104

hang in their buddy, you'll be winning again soon. let me know if you wanna talk about any hands.

aka smi.daemon

Last edit: 23/09/2008 14:36

k2o4 United States. Sep 23 2008 15:21. Posts 4803

get teamviewer/skype and get in touch with me and we'll do a sweat session!

InnovativeYogis.com

collegesucks United States. Sep 23 2008 15:44. Posts 5780

i think the biggest reason why i gave up was because i coulldn't help getting bored so often and spewing/spazzing out randomly =(

have you really tried to review the bigger pots lost to see if there are any major leaks like mine?

failsafe United States. Sep 23 2008 16:35. Posts 1040

yeah i'm really perfectionistic and obsess over anything that ever goes wrong so i've definitely reviewed almost every losing hand. if anything i rarely ever spaz or spew except with a hero call down every 10k hands or something

CrownRoyal United States. Sep 30 2008 03:38. Posts 11385

hey i missed this but im always here for you jeff <3

dunno how i can ever help you beyond sweating or talking theory with you but im more than happy to do either cause like, we are getting a poker house together and i need you to be as baller as possible so we can live in a super baller house together alongside whoever else thinks their biceps are as big as ours (longshot i know)

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