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RichyP United Kingdom. Apr 17 2009 11:21. Posts 81 | | |
Heyyy first blog post, i think its gonna be pretty long so if you read it all well done  but for those who cant be assed heres the general story in chronological order; Fuck poker, oh wait actually its cool, the end.
So recently i've kinda lost the thrill i used to get out of poker, by the 15th of this month i had played only 198 hands and i was just generally feeling extremely lethargic and that it might actually be a good idea to give up with poker and move on. I used to get this feeling a few times a while ago, and i solved it by moving up in stakes to get me excited about the prospect of winning or losing more money (LOL oh hi degeneracy.
Anyways i woke up this morning and in a last ditch attempt to salvage my poker "career" i looked through a ton of my hand histories. My god i never knew i was such a nit. No wonder i was getting bored with poker, just playing shitty passive poker waiting for setups to fall in my favour. I was soooo bad at extracting value, my post flop play was just terrible and i think this is why my showdown winnings were falling so terribly. The small ego that i had about my poker skills was gone completely as i had no idea why it took me so long to realise i was playing so bad.
With this in mind i loaded up 4 NL50 tables (2 to start with probably wouldve been better so that i could get used to my new style and how people would play back at me) and decided to loosen up far far more, pump up the aggression and really just think far more than i had been before. I also took a lot more notes than i have done in the past and it just worked wonders for my game and also my state of mind towards the game too.
Things started off pretty bad when a 82/0 fish stacked me twice, AK<22 and KQ<AT on AKQ flop but i still carried on because to just end the session then wouldve been a massive failure, and things started to turn around. Its amazing how people suddenly transform into tilttard monkey idiots as soon as you get aggressive over blinds, and because of this i found the thrill of poker again.
Anyway you should get by know the jist of what im trying to say; "yay im no longer a nit and i find poker fun and exciting again". I only actually played quite a small session handwise but tables were dying and i was happy to end the session +2BI after an hour and a halfs play with my new style.
Very happy with todays results, might play another session after work, if i'm not too tired.
Thanks for reading it all, if you did Promise future blogs wont be such a chore to read
RichyP
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NewbSaibot United States. Apr 17 2009 16:40. Posts 4946 | | |
Yea I feel ya. I'm undergoing one of those emotional downswings myself right now. I keep playing limits I am underrolled for so I have to catch myself at that moment in the day in which my spirits are high so I dont play with scared money (havent played in 3 days). I'm just kinda tired of being stuck at NL5 but dont have to discipline to earn my way out of it, so I take shots... will probably be my downfall. |
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failsafe United States. Apr 17 2009 16:43. Posts 1040 | | |
yeah i had something like the same realization. poker is boring if you're playing it like it's football or something. if you're just playing around and expecting to improve or for the game to pick up then it sucks. but if you take matters into your own hands and try to locate every edge then it's cool |
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