getting slaughtered at party $50 6max

[Wayfare]

I love how 2+2'ers treat winning less than they expected as getting "slaughtered" or alternatively "cremated"

[beavens]

had the same situation.. was running hot at around 10-15ptbb/100, then hit a wall and dropped to about 2ptbb/100.

i attribute it to cold cards, bad plays and loss of confidence.

stopped playing for a few days and when i did play a couple days ago, i dropped down to 25NL to get the confidence back.

have to say i feel a lot better now. i enjoy it a lot more after taking a break, and i'll hit the 50NL back when my roll is back over $1k.

got to take at least $500 out for new years in AC - should be fun!

[grouchie]

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I love how 2+2'ers treat winning less than they expected as getting "slaughtered" or alternatively "cremated"

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i was thinking this exact same thing

These stats look OK to me, though possibly a little on the tight side. But I don't think this is the right way to evaluate your play -- there's all kinds of ranges of stats that could be OK or great or terrible depending on how they're played. I've found that over the past 10k or so hands I've played at 50NL, I've upped my winrate a TON by not thinking about stats in this way. Rather, I find a table with a donkey or two, preferably with stacks. There's no shortage. I try to figure out what kind of donkeys they are, which doesn't take long. Then I focus almost exclusively on them. I'll play as many hands as I possibly can against them, isolating whenever possible.

So my stats don't really reflect my average play at all. I'm slightly loose/aggressive against unknowns or decent players. But against those 80/0 calling stations you often find, I'll play something like 40/35 (especially when I can get them on my immediate right and depending on table conditions). And my postflop aggression will be close to infinity. Against overagressive donks, I do a lot of limp-calling or reraising preflop, and my postflop aggression will be much lower. So to say that I'm 30/15 with a postflop aggression of 3.5 is missing the point.