Well, not quite but I took quite a hit the last 3 days playing and feel miserable about and need your help with some of my hands.
I've lost like 10 buy-ins in my last 2 sessions - 2k hands, 4 this Friday and almost 6 today and I feel like absolute shit, those 2 gruesome days result me in breaking even for the last 11k hands which feels like a sin to me on a limit as 25NL... whatever, I guess most will tell me it's completely standard (either that or that I can't beat 25NL... I hope it's the first one most frankly...). Like half those buy-ins are proven coolers/bad beats looking at them through HEM but the other half was because of some gruesome spots and I was wondering if there were any people around that would care to help me comment these spots...
Spot #1:
The guy in this hand was playing 45/20 over 20 hands and seemed to be mostly a calling station. His overall aggression frequency was 21% but that doesn't say much over such a small sample size.
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Spot #2:
The guy in this hand was playing 43/17 over 23 hands and was pretty aggro, his aggro frequency was 42% and he didn't seem to like folding so far. Not sure if it helps any way, I guess it does constructing his preflop range, his preflop 3-bet percentage was 25%, obviously a small sample size but that's a lot of 3-bets nontheless.
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Spot #3:
The guy in this hand was playing 19/3 over 36 hands and had a aggro frequency of 14% and didn't seem to like folding post flop once he was in the flop. The hand before this one I saw him minraising and 4-betting the flop quite small with JTo on a KQ9 flop with a flushdraw on it, naturally I took some weight off nut hands in his range but nontheless, the overbet shove really threw me off.
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Spot #4:
The guy in this hand turned out to be playing 41/19 over 54 hands but I think was playing around 70/55 or so for over 20 hands when this hand occured. His aggro frequency turned out to be around 45% over those 54 hands and he was generally acting like your standard aggrodonk. Btw, his raise here is a shove.
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Spot #5:
The guy in this hand turned out to be playing 54/13 over 113 hands and was extremely aggressive postflop, his aggro frequency over those 113 hands turned out to be 72 so that's pretty damn high. Preflop though he seemed reasonably stationy and just trying to see flops so he could go nuts postflop. I hadn't seen him limp/3-bet so I wasn't sure how to act on that one but didn't feel quite good to get it in preflop because of his overall nitty preflop opening stat.
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Anyways, apart from these hands I am really struggling with my mindset for poker and that has been going on for quite a long time now. It seems that I know the fundamentals quite well overall, understand the nature of the game and are pretty reasonable at figuring out most spots but I have a hard time getting my grinding mindset right. I don't grind enough because I am afraid of losing sessions, call me an idiot about it, I know it's insane and I feel kind of ashamed about it but that's the way it is. I also have small tilt problems, half-way my losing session today I started tilting again and tilted off exactly 1 buy-in directly after losing a pot, it ain't much with how I'd use to tilt (I used to tilt from losing 3 buy-ins already and my max buy-ins lost on tilt is about 4, I know, really bad but I worked on it quite a bit and I got most of it out of me) but it's still 1 buy-in unnecessary lost.
I also seem to be really bad at not thinking about my results in hands that I lost... I understand that a set over set is a cooler you probably won't get away from unless the flop is super, super bad (like 876 monotone) but I guess some or maybe even most hands I posted above are coolers but I like to believe I could have made a different move and shit like that. Thing is, my confidence is really low and I constantly doubt if I understand things good enough to be even considered a winner in poker in general so I tend to feel all this insecurity whenever I lose a hand and wonder if I misplayed it.
Anyways, long post, blah, blah, blah, I would like to thank everybody in advance that was willing to take a look here and help me out, later, Kilay
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