November Review

Life has been hard in November. Running like shit at the tables and spewing like a motherfucker. Also I have found that my university course is going down the pan really, to be honest. I am not doing the work and have found myself feeling depressed and generally unmotivated, maybe the reason I am getting so tilted at the tables. Work is handed in late, if at all and it's not ok. I have decided that I need to focus on my university course as a number one priority, no more fucking around. I have banned myself from 2p2 for a week, and will hopefully get in the habit of actually doing my work as I am supposed to.

As for my poker results...



-$649 NLHE
-$250 PLO
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a -$900 month

FML.

november.... FUUUUUUU!

As soon as a new month rolls along I feel like my luck drastically changes for better or for worse and unfortunately November I have hit the variance hard and in a bad way. I'm down $600 for the month already and it's only the 9th, sucks.

May have to move down to 25nl again which is not on the top of my wish list. However it's a limit I know I can crush, and so moving down for a bit won't hurt. I feel like I have two main leaks in my game at the moment that is holding me back from my potential. Firstly is calling the river and paying people off when their ranges either crush me or they are bluffing, and people are rarely bluffing on the river, so I should tighten that up. The next is tilting. I need to stop tilting. Or at least control it better.

Here is to a good second half of November for all, though especially to me!

Annoyance

Has anyone else noticed the side bar is at the bottom of the page? It's really annoying. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Heads up.

I'm thinking that I might be more suited to HU, I mean I've always enjoyed it, and I believe I'm actually quite good at it. I'll be playing more HU in the future I think.

Here is an interesting hand from a recent HU session.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (2 handed) - Poker-Stars Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com



Hero (BB) ($50)

SB ($27.55)



Preflop: Hero is BB with 8, A

SB bets $1, Hero calls $0.50



Flop: ($2) 2, 9, 7 (2 players)

Hero checks, SB checks



Turn: ($2) J (2 players)

Hero bets $1.50, SB calls $1.50



River: ($5) J (2 players)

Hero checks, SB bets $5.50, Hero calls $5.50



Total pot: $16 | Rake: $0.50




This is pretty standard vs this opponent imo. Given the action the river is an easy call. The guy brought in for 20bb and was playing quite spazzy and obviously wasn't great, but was sort of competent, although spazzy. I thought that he would be calling the turn very wide, and so I don't like my bet, but I knew on the turn that on a blank river I could potentially bluff catch A high. The jack on the river is like the best card in the deck for me (apart from the ace). I check planning on c/c and he goes ahead and over bets it and I stick to my plan and call. You see given the action prior, when he overbets this river he is super polarized. He either has Jx the Ace high flush (sometimes) or he is bluffing. Now trips are hard to get and I thought that there is a non-zero chance that he is raising strong jacks like AJ or KJ on the turn. I thought any set/weak flush/straight is betting flop/raising turn so I discounted them. That leaves draws, all of them missed. I think he can have random 8x, Tx and any random club. Did I think he was merging his range with a random pair? Nah, he's not good enough to do that, and not bad enough to overbet a pair because with the two jacks he has two purrr. Is he turning 22 into a bluff here? I don't think so. Given that I thought he'd see overbets as signs of strength and would therefore more likely overbet bluff than value bet I called this and got shown Q8hh. Maybe results orientated, but I still think it was a good call.

Jynx

Don't ever brag about not tilting. The last few sessions have been some of the most tilted ever, and it felt like February again. I am taking a day off from 2p2 and poker, to clear my head and do other things, hopefully will help.

I also have been running like crap, but that's no excuse.

Don't play tourneys either. Devil's spawn.

Checking in again

Moving to 50nl has been pretty good so far, I think I have an edge against most players, and I've been running ok. One thing that I notice now is how much better I am at not tilting. I remember February I would be on tilt after the first hand every session or something and I'd be perma tilting. Calming down and taking things as they come has helped my winrate. Also not making a big deal about vip status' has also helped, I used to get platinum every month and it would always be a struggle, I would have to keep playing even when tired and tilted, now I just play when I want to and any volume bonus' are exactly that, a bonus.

Here is my graph so far as I know everyone loves graphs!


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I hope to continue playing solid for the rest of the month and hopefully win some more moneys!!!

I also ran a flipawment in which I got to the semi finals and got knocked out, again. Rigged.

blog tourney thing