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At the risk of immense ridicule I'm posting some of the details of my now 1000BB+ losing string (yup...I said 1-freaking-thousand)!!!
Disclaimer: I'm not even pretending that I'm playing a winning game anymore although I really don't think my game is THAT god-awful. But obviously this goes far beyond what most would consider the regular bounds for a winning player's 'variance'. Time to step away for a little while perhaps?? I suspect so (yet again). Most of the recommendations are kind of obvious of course: -- play fewer tables and focus -- take a break and don't play for a few days -- read, read, read (in strategy forums and SSHE, etc) -- play full tables and just play weak-tight fit-or-fold poker to lessen the swings (which I've been doing...but the losing continues on and on and on) -- don't get crazy over blind battles Actually, I've been doing well in the occasional satellites and other tourneys I've been playing. So I might be off to low buy-in SNG's for awhile to rebuild bankroll and confidence (which is totally in the toilet now of course). Maybe I'll just throw in 1 table of lowish-limit 6-max on the side while playing a couple tourneys. It's a thought. Anyway - here are my fun-filled stats for your amusement (should make you all feel better about your own 'downswings'): Today: another -60BB's in 1600 hands Party since Nov 15: 33k hands, -1.31BB/100 at 5/10 and 3/6. -439BB's total UB since Dec 6: 33k hands, 1.88BB/100 at 3/6 and 2/4 -623BB's total Yup - I've dropped 1071 BB's in the past month. Impressive?? I sure think so. It's been mostly just 30-40 or so BB's per day. Fun!! It's difficult to seperate out the 6-max stats from the full-table stats at UB...so I'll just give some of my party 6-max stats (stats should generally be the same). VP - 23 PFR - 18 FSB - 84 FBB - 68 WtSD - 35 W$SD - 51 W$WSF - 40 except for the low W$SD these numbers look pretty reasonable to me. Ag-F - 3.0 Ag-T - 2.4 Ag-R - 1.8 Ag-total - 2.5 I'm raising much less these days trying to passivefy my play and keep myself tied to fewer pots: By position (VP/PFR/WtSD/W$SD/BB/100): UTG - 20/19/44/59/0.07 MP - 21/20/44/56/0.13 CO - 23/20/35/53/0.06 B - 24/20/40/56/0.09 SB - 24/20/39/55/(0.05) BB - 20/9/26/46/(0.30) My BB play looks glaringly bad obviously. I know I've run into a lot of rivered 2-pairs after flopping top pair....or just whiffing with 98 on board of over-cards and stuff like that...but obviously I'm pretty in the wrong here still. Breaking down the past few days of my losing streak: 12/19, -60 12/18, -17 12/17, -65 (3.9BB/100) 12/16, -29 (actually won $14, won at 3/6 and lost at 2/4) 12/15, -37 12/14, -92 12/13, -5 (actually won $100 though) 12/12, -47 12/11, +27 12/10, -138 12/09, +24 12/08, -102 12/07, -42 12/06, -55 And so on and so on and so on. |
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I can really feel your pain. I play at those levels too and i'm on a 26k hands break even stretch. And I've been through a -300 bb.
Trying to relearn the gme is not a bad idea. I'm starting to think that the 23-25/ 15-18 no longer works as good as it did before in this games. I'm starting to induce more bluffs and check and call a lot more, because there are less people now that pay off with crap and people are more agressive now. Probably nowadays 5/10 is very similar to the old 10/20 from 1 year ago and I've never beaten that game for a big rate. Keep thinking about poker and you'll find the way to keep winning |
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Aggression is too high. Try to get the total aggression to around 2. Don't force your opponents to fold worse hands and raise you with better ones. Check/calling your way to money is not only +EV against aggressive opponents but it is really fun to do.
Everything else looks pretty standard, but I would try to defend your blind a little more often. Just FYI-- If I were to sit at a table and see a 23/17/2.5, I would not be particularly worried. The people that really scare me are the 27/20/2.0 people. |
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Check/calling your way to money is not only +EV against aggressive opponents but it is really fun to do. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah...I've been bringing my aggression down of late. I agree that I could check-call more...and also perhaps not push quite as much with winners (I'm always freaking driving my opponents out). |
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Just FYI-- If I were to sit at a table and see a 23/17/2.5, I would not be particularly worried. The people that really scare me are the 27/20/2.0 people. [/ QUOTE ] This is silly. There really isn't that much difference. For example, at one table I can play 27/20, while at the other table I can play 23/17. Just based on differences in game texture, relative position, etc. |
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![]() "How many cookies did you have to open before you got that one?" It was actually the first/only one. I have it on my computer now. Forget what my GF's fortune was but it was pretty good too. I'm still hoping that poker counts as a 'personal' affair. I dreamt last night that my GF and I were in France...so maybe I'll win one of those EPT-France things coming up. (also in the dream....after 2 days there we discovered that my cat had snuck along in my suitcase...and later we bumped into my ex-wife...weird) |
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I'm figuring out how to graph and screen-shot now (just screwing around because I'm not going to play any limit games tonight).
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I agree with playing more hands. I'm about 31/19 at Party 5/10. I think if you find loose passive tables you can play a lot more hands.
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I agree with playing more hands. [/ QUOTE ] Count me in the people who totally disagree. If I were MB I'd be wanting to play less hands right now. BTW, his OP was tl;dr so I dont know his stats anyways. |
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Holy $hit.
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