September 15, 2010
No updates in forever, as most of u know i hit a bad patch and decided to start trying to improve my game more than just grinding VPPs for now as it was worse than I realized, or bad variance, but regardless, I needed a change. I didn't update here mainly because i forgot and didnt feel like I was even grinding lately just doing lots of homework.
Anyway as u guys know i've been playing some 6max... today's was no different.
The theme of today is... Can u convince urself to NOT pay off (you jackass)
So today I ran 2 sessions, a 4 hour and a 5 hour session. Both were 100nl 100bb 6max.
I started off with 18 tables, but surprisingly somehow it had slowed down SO much from even yesterday I ended up doing 20 by the 2nd session.
The first session went pretty good, I unfortunately dropped a bit right at the end and went from +500 cash +450ev to 250 cash 200 ev, though still decent.
The 2nd session started out in shambles. I was beat by set over set early on, and 2 times my 2nd nut two card flush ran into the nut flush. That with some general bad play and bad luck, I was soon -300ev and -800 cash.
I kept playing and battling and felt like I was making some sound plays, I bluffed a lot more than normal as for a stretch it seemed EVERYONE was a fucking nit, at one point I flopped 3 sets and 1 straight almost simultaneously, in ALL 4 all my opponents check folded on the flop. I couldn't believe it.
Anyway I go on a nice heater about 3 hours in and suddenly Im up 600 ev for the day and 285 cash ( i ran terrible this session).
But then it happened, I had done it once or twice earlier but i just started paying people off.
I knew how nitty they were, but i hit a run of missing everything or constantly having 2nd best hands that normally would have been strong, yet i STILL knew i was almost definitely beat, and I kept calling.
I almost think it was a psychological thing like, OK i made my EV back AND some money back, time to relax... very very dumb. I dropped to 150ev or so for a while, then the last 20 minutes which i didn't even plan on playing it got REALLY bad, I even made my first LEGIT tilt call ever. I was 200 deep and this guy who previously and recently had hit 2 sets against me when I had top two in one and AA in the other on the flop was against me, flop came AQ4 I had AQ i bet he calls, turn is a Jack, I bet and just KNOW he will raise, and he does, I cant believe it, so what do I do? Fold? NOPE I tilt call, saying, oh maybe he's overplaying AJ... RIGHT... would I raise it to $68 there with AJ? No... never. So I call. and here's where it gets REAL bad... river is a T. So any king will do... pot is 180 we both have a little over 100 left.. he puts it in and I already decide so i snap call.. and BAM KTo ship it. 200bb gone.
I just shook my head, I really don't think I've ever done that, at least not this year, and if i did it might have been like a smaller bet or something. But this one was bad.
So I ended the 9 hours -600ish in cash and -280 in EV. Really MUCH better EV than I felt I deserved.
I looked through my top 25 and worst 25 hands of the day though.
and of the top 25, 2 of my winning hands maybe u could make an argument for 3 were iffy calls.
But, of my 25 worst hands, a whopping 12 were bad calls that shouldn't have been made.
I estimated each one was worth an average of about $80. So if we took them all away including the 2 - 3 I won, we're talking about 700 of cash and ev that I spewed.
I really REALLY gotta stop doing that without good reason. I said in Skype i was going to only about 10 minutes before i donked off the 200bb pot and a few others. It was crazy I def was in a form of tilt even though I didn't feel angry.
However, I really am actually more optimistic now than I've been at 6max. I've been winning in general, and don't feel intimidated or out of place at the 100nl level thus far (it's still early i know) and I really feel like once I sew up this leak I will be an instant winning player.
I definitely have more work to do and more to understand but i think the coaching vids on sites I've been on are helping and I think I'm thinking about my play and my opponents ranges more than ever, so hopefully I can just make myself fold once in a while, and we'll be on to the NEXT leak which I'm sure will rear its ugly head soon... probably folding TOO much lol.
GL everyone.
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