running bad again

Just make sure you are playing well, because if you are a winner in the longrun over a large enough sample you are going to show profit

thats the mindset im trying to follow this month while running like absiolute dogshit and tbh its working-ish

On November 11 2009 12:37 Critterer wrote: Just make sure you are playing well, because if you are a winner in the longrun over a large enough sample you are going to show profit thats the mindset im trying to follow this month while running like absiolute dogshit and tbh its working-ish

+1.

Every longterm poker player will face a huge doomswitch at least once (I had it about 4 months ago when I lost about 60BI at NL25 and NL10 after 170k hands on 7bb/100 ownage since I started playing poker).
When I look back at the time sure, I ran like shit (and I played like 16/14 at the time), but with so much knowledge I have now I realise how badly I played, and that I couldn't give you a proper reason for like half of my post flop plays.

I think in a year when you will play your 400NL after you realise that you simply know too little about poker and start learning properly (and you will start running better), I am 100% sure that you will think about what an oblivious dumbass you have been back then when you focused on running bad as opposed to playing 2-4 tables, watching a ton of videos and thinking hard about every single play that you made.

Thats at least how I look back on my doomswitch period, because at the time I thought I knew it all and was simply cursing the deck without any sign of trying to really improve my thought process.
A phase everyone has to go through (and many people go through it many times when they don't realise that if you crush a limit over 30k hands it doesn't mean at all you will crush it longterm).


Last week I watched one 1hr video before every single session, didn't open more than 4 tables at any point and reviewed all my hands where I lost big or I was not sure if I didn't miss a large vbet. I know you will realise this at some point too, but at micros win rate is almost irrelevant - its how you develop your poker thinking that matters.

so you're saying that if i play 4 tables instead of 8, my 70/30s will win?

AMAZING

btw i'm not 4 tabling full ring, ever, unless i wanna die of boredom

No I am saying that you will get value elsewhere than in 70/30 spots (which is not that great against huge fish btw)

And of course that you shouldn't be negative when you lose 70/30 AI, but he happy about it.

when i lose 5/5 of them it's pretty tilting

Yeah I agree, you don't know how much I agree and always the hypertilting dragon wakes up onside me when this happens.
But you gotta realise that being anything else than happy that you got it in good is hugely -EV.


This is my goal No1 before I get to 100NL - to not to tilt, and posting a blog is the worst thing there is trust me

whats the general advise here, just keep grinding super tight folding TPTKs to shoves( my last 5 buyins) or move down a limit for the time being?

depends on your roll and tilt control

On November 11 2009 14:58 bane wrote: depends on your roll and tilt control

this rhymes