what a joke

your red line is very very bad and is probably the direct cause of your losing

PMed you

take a break!
during that period learn and study only.

T.T. this is depressing

indeed

I'll try anything at this point, I think I need a coach but I have no idea how to pay such a person. I guess they could have my rakeback. lawl.

curious to see PM

Looks like poker isn't for you. I'm serious about that.

Looks like you concentrate on making good folds, but foget to extract max value, make good bluffs. show to someone your turn and river agression, it might be your weak spot

get coaching?

On June 13 2010 09 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              13 2010 09      end_of_the_skype_highlighting:31 Twisted wrote: Looks like poker isn't for you. I'm serious about that.

+1

edit: no need to be like that.


that's a real weird graph tho. something's really wrong.

That's why playing bad was in there twice

don't take it so serious, seems you put a lot of pressure on yourself that you must win money which is the worst mindset. Take few days break and play when you feel like playing, but try to think it's all play money and concentrate on optimizing your style. Impatience of winning leads to losing.

also, your lack of variance in your EV is actually really lucky, due to the correlation of winrate and variance (breakeven style = potentially massive swings)

all hands for my FT:

hmm...idk.. i wish i can help, maybe i'll teach you some sngs/mtt, hope that works out

On June 13 2010 09:18 exalted wrote: your red line is very very bad and is probably the direct cause of your losing PMed you

Imo this is wrong. I've read your blog before and yourself//everybody else's reasoning for why you are losing is wrong. It isn't your stats, redline, etc etc that is causing you to lose. Those are just metrics of the actions you take. Its what is underlying those metrics ---> Your "Mechanics" that is really important. I consider that to be things like how you think about poker and make decisions at the table...with what speed? with what focus? How you try to get reads and use them? etc. You really ought to be focusing on fixing your mechanics, not "Oh I should be barreling or not barreling in this spot."

Imo in your situation (playing for a living with a meager source of income) its going to be really hard to fix your mechanics since there is so much pressure on you to pay your bills with your poker money. It would probably be best for you to move down and reduce the number of tables to one or two, and to also take a very big percentage of your poker time to study and focus on your mechanics. You should also be willing to experiment heavily while you play, with improvement, not winning money, to be your primary goal.

Given that its really hard to do these things while playing for a living, I suggest you at the least temporarily focus on a job or going back to school. This is going to put alot of pressure away from your poker and will allow you to give it the TYPE of focus that is required. If its the right move, there is no shame in it at all.

My 2 cents.

u need to fix that red line.

i would coach u, but i'm prob. not good enough.

Also I feel this is a good article.

http://www.cardrunners.com/blog/inter...en-lemons-give-you-life-make-lifenade

It was from"Collegesucks's" Blog. I think its a good read and should be relevant to the situation.

hiems, I understand what you're saying, but that red line is the equivalent of someone saying: "I play 50/6, and, I just can't seem to win!" It is definitely a leak, although I may incorrectly infer that it is his largest one (that I could easily be wrong about).

It does get less severe in slope in the end, hence his 'improvement' towards a break even instead of 'losing' player, but that is still miles from a breakeven red line or even a positive sloped one (which of course "may" not be optimal)

On June 13 2010 10:36 exalted wrote: hiems, I understand what you're saying, but that red line is the equivalent of someone saying: "I play 50/6, and, I just can't seem to win!" It is definitely a leak, although I may incorrectly infer that it is his largest one (that I could easily be wrong about). It does get less severe in slope in the end, hence his 'improvement' towards a break even instead of 'losing' player, but that is still miles from a breakeven red line or even a positive sloped one (which of course "may" not be optimal)

I see what you mean. I guess I don't realize what "Style" of play and severity of leaks will contribute to a red-line looking like that. But I guess I just needed to add my point because I felt it hasn't been covered at all in reading through his blog before. And I feel that is what he needs long term for what he wants out of poker.