GRAAH

HU is sick

hu is way better than 6max

I don't know why you call it a swing when you simply played bad? Even by your own admission? That just seems foolish and delusional to the truth.

EDIT: I don't mean to kick you while you're down or anything but it seems more important to simply be honest with yourself and realistic.

well I only mentioned the spots where I played bad and not the ones where I got sucked out/coolered/fucked in otherwise cause its quite uninteresting. Obviously I didnt spew off 3,6k from playing like a retard.

What I mean with swings is for example the fact that when deep almost every pot we played was 3-bet preflop and involved multiple barrels with alot off blufffs/super light calldowns etc.

and these swings caused tilt which caused me to lose more.

im mything my own blog T_T

saki, i think its good u blog about this, will help u a lot

against these players who just hero call down all day, i make several adjustments -

- open tighter
- pot every street when i actually do bet and double barrel with a high frequency on good boards, not even necessarily good turns, they just c/c so light but dont for 2 barrels usually (if they do, 3 barrel or c/f flop)
- use overbets/pot size bets to your advantage
- try to relax and realise this player is actually very tough to beat because they just never fold, they're tougher than a lot of agg opponents.

idk if that helps, maybe it does or doesnt but i think u could also critique my adjustments

just stop playing when the momentum really isnt in your favour esp if u think u have tilt problems find a new opponent or stop playing for a while

The fact you called down light when he multi barrelled a few times and were right doesn't necessarily make those call downs good or his plays bad. It just means that in a vacuum, in those hands specifically, you happened to be right. That doesn't make your plays good or his plays bad. Thinking so just shows a complete lack of perspective. And considering how much you lost while playing bad I fail to see how you could have lost significantly more from being coolered/sucked out/whatever. It just doesn't leave that much room for that.

It sounds like you ran like god at the beginning of the session, thought you were a hero, then got your face smashed.

Your constantly posting in your blog about running good and bad and when you're whining and running bad I see a number of hands that you post that I don't think are really any good at all. Then when you're running good, I see the same thing, you just happen to be winning at the time. But when you're winning you seem to think "oh yeah, I'm playing good now, I totally own" and when you're not, you think you're just getting screwed and that god hates you or something. You just have to be honest with yourself and realistic. It's easy to justify everything by looking at it in a way that makes you feel better, that justifies your actions in a light that makes you see them how you want to. That doesn't make you good and that doesn't make it right.

And yeh, people will support however you want to see things because they want to support you and don't want to make you feel bad. But generic "keep your chin up, things will improve" or "yeah! you're the master, you didn't do anything wrong!" don't actually help anything or help you improve. They just go to further bad thought processes and trying to make you feel better when that isn't really what's important at all.

I dunno, again, I'm not trying to kick you while you're down. It's just a pattern that I keep seeing in you and I'm just being honest. I could be totally off base and wrong but this is just how I see things.

The most important thing is to be able to look at each and every session and hand in the same light regardless of results. That can be really hard to do after a particularly bad or good session because things get to our head a little but after we calm down and cool off we should be able to look at things realistically. Not let our egos get to us. If you can't do that then you really shouldn't be playing at all because it's just going to make things go poorly in the long run. It's not like I'm saying you're supposed to feel GOOD after a session like this but you can't let how you're running on any given day dictate how you perceive how things went. That's just poor judgment. Take your time to be emotional about it and then after that take a step back and try to really really look at it. And if you're having trouble with that, ask somebody for help. It just seems silly to let your emotions govern you day in and day out. It doesn't need to be that way.

It's not like I'm saying you're bad or you don't have some good things about you. I'm saying there are a lot of things about you that have room for improvement and until you identify those things and work at them you can't actually do anything about it and you'll be stuck in the same rut that you've been in for a long time now.

I have no idea why you felt the need to write an essay about this... I really dont know what you are talking about. This is in short what I said in my post:

I played a really swingy HU match against a bad player.
The swongness made me tilt.
I feel bad about this.
Boho.
Lets try and do better.

And yes, villian was quite lucky in this match. And no, I dont really care about that.

Its also funny how you seem to think you have a better judgment about the spots I was in than I had myself. The whole "call down light" rant is laughable. Obviously I cant know for certain without an enormous hand sample that calling him down every single time is good. but reasoning like you do is really really retarded and is going to destroy you HU. I called down based on gameflow, timingtells, boardtexture and previous action, its not like Im blindly calling down every single time. And no, I dont think I can fold TPGK in a reraised pot when he bets the turn, simply because he has shown in the past hes definitely capable of betting a really wide range there, hes even valuebetting a worse 9 there sometimes.

Im sorry but I dont really care if you think I play good/bad w/e. This pattern you are seeing is me whining when losing and celebrating when winning? Sureley thats quite unique. I constantly reevaluate my play in every hand I play just because I dont post about it on my blog doesnt mean I dont do it. I run this blog for two reasons. To whine when Im losing, and to brag when Im winning.

And I am not in a rut really. Yeah I broke even for about 100k hands on FTP but shit like that happens. Especially since I wasnt playing all to well. Im still over 12ptbb/100 on 2/4 hu after this session and Im running at 6ptbb/100 on 6-max so far.

so whatever man, your a tool. Hu for rolls?

On March 08 2008 07:38 SakiSaki wrote: Swings like this are not impossible when you play a guy superdeep who doesnt mind playing huge pots with marginal hands but I could definitely have avoided some of the spots where I tilted away aloot and it fucking sucks assfuck. Im so pissed at myself right now you cant believe it.

This is what I in my post said about swings.

They are not impossible against a guy like this. (no they are definitely not)
I could have avoided losing alot and that sucks(yes that really sucks)

Do you see me anywhere saying anything about god hating me or me not taking responsebility for my play?

Oh and the two main pots I tilted in where one 250bbs deep($1000) and one 150bbs deep($600)

Add those together and you will get 1,6k

Subtract 1,6 from what I lost from what I lost totally after my peak

3,6k - 1,6k = 2k

Meaning I lost 2k in pots I didnt tilt. Sure maybe I could have played one or two diffrently but all in all I like how I played all of them.

overreaction of the century, Freak. here comes Saki posting an honest blog about a bad session and even admitting he made some mistakes and you bash him for supposedly whining about it.
and wtf, we all brag about good sessions and whine sometimes about bad ones. Saki is hardly worse than anyone else when it comes to this, probably infact the opposite. if you're trying to help him you're really coming off as a gigantic douchebag and should maybe work on your ways of teaching a little
your whole post, or posts, really sound like you think Saki is a bad player even with your disclaimer attempts. imo this is not true, I've seen plenty hands from him that leave me pretty impressed. there are better targets to pick if you want to flame without making it look like you're flaming

Whatever, I tried to help you and you blew a gasket and decided to insult me like a child.

Do whatever the fuck you want. I didn't attack you in any way and just tried to give you some perspective. I didn't tell you what to do. I didn't even insult you. I don't know why you're attacking me. I "wrote an essay about this" because I was trying to help, not because I was being malicious. The fact that you can't see this is what's "laughable".

But if you feel the need to attack me despite me not doing anything even remotely similar, then be my guest. It just goes to show what kind of person you really are.

On March 08 2008 13:20 Stygg wrote: overreaction of the century, Freak. here comes Saki posting an honest blog about a bad session and even admitting he made some mistakes and you bash him for supposedly whining about it. and wtf, we all brag about good sessions and whine sometimes about bad ones. Saki is hardly worse than anyone else when it comes to this, probably infact the opposite. if you're trying to help him you're really coming off as a gigantic douchebag and should maybe work on your ways of teaching a little your whole post, or posts, really sound like you think Saki is a bad player even with your disclaimer attempts. imo this is not true, I've seen plenty hands from him that leave me pretty impressed. there are better targets to pick if you want to flame without making it look like you're flaming

Anything I said was hardly a flame? And little of my post is referring to this blog post by itself but towards his attitude as a whole. I made this abundantly clear in everything I said. The fact that you can't see this just shows that you aren't understanding anything that I'm saying.

On March 08 2008 13:17 SakiSaki wrote: Show nested quote + On March 08 2008 07:38 SakiSaki wrote: Swings like this are not impossible when you play a guy superdeep who doesnt mind playing huge pots with marginal hands but I could definitely have avoided some of the spots where I tilted away aloot and it fucking sucks assfuck. Im so pissed at myself right now you cant believe it. This is what I in my post said about swings. They are not impossible against a guy like this. (no they are definitely not) I could have avoided losing alot and that sucks(yes that really sucks) Do you see me anywhere saying anything about god hating me or me not taking responsebility for my play? Oh and the two main pots I tilted in where one 250bbs deep($1000) and one 150bbs deep($600) Add those together and you will get 1,6k Subtract 1,6 from what I lost from what I lost totally after my peak 3,6k - 1,6k = 2k Meaning I lost 2k in pots I didnt tilt. Sure maybe I could have played one or two diffrently but all in all I like how I played all of them.

You mentioned 3 hands by my count, not two. One didn't say how big the pot was. Assuming it was of reasonable size that still only leaves just over 200bbs that weren't lost due to bad play. The amount that was is hardly insignificant.

How you guys aren't able to see that I'm talking about his attitude as a whole and posts he's been making for a long while now and not this post specifically is completely beyond me.

Neither of you even countered anything I said, you just attacked me baselessly. I give a thought out post that actually attempts to make a point and explain it thoroughly and you do nothing but bash me and treat me as if I'm a complete piece of shit.

Both of you need to grow the fuck up.