Busted 90% of my rolls @ high stakes lol..

It's okay hyung. With more discipline, you can rape it. Just control your inner degen within you.

ur stupid

On March 18 2011 10:27 gawdawaful wrote: move up to 25/50 cap. 5x swings means you're busto/robusto way faster, thus leaving more time to study

really am very fond of this website haha it's one of more enjoyable part of my life atm (sad i know)

On March 19 2011 10:15 ShLiM wrote: ur stupid

I was already aware of this, please be more constructive in your criticism.

Damn I would feel pretty bad after that but you have to think of it as a challenge now to grind it back gl

I'd say, for starters, never play poker unless you're in a good mood. No exceptions, ever. If you break this rule, your thought process in the hands doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents, good luck and get through it.

good advice. Today my head hurt and had the 'fog' from studying psychology for my dissertation (Social psychology on self control lololol) I opened 8 tables of my stakes and then realised HELL NO and closed them all. True Story.

I'm going to be a bit blunt, but more of your hands are tracked of course besides the ones put up here. Maybe I'm wrong but it looked more like you were playing hyper aggressive everywhere, including spots that don't make much sense, and trying to win every single pot.

If that's true, coupled with the very first hand (where you are bluffing into a range that is repping massive strength), you really need to take a step back and ask yourself if you were playing good poker, or you were just feeding a gambling problem because of the thrill of winning pots off of the top regs. What kind of stats were you running that session?

Side note, one of those shortstackers is a 1ptbb/winner over many many hands in the midstakes. The other is bad but doesn't seem to be a gigantic whale.

I'd suggest really re-thinking what happened today and how it might affect you in the long term.

Also you know how this site works, so expect some pretty harsh comments!

On March 18 2011 09:16 Jhyun88 wrote: help.. I need to quit playing cap 5/10 flips..

1 day laterz

On March 19 2011 09:56 Jhyun88 wrote: Busted 90% of my rolls @ high stakes lol

Well done

Running into nut flush in that hand with Q9 is definitely, definitely questionable.

The section I am studying is was on self-awareness and self control. When you stop and think about yourself and you don't like what you see by standards set by yourself or public you either
A) Shape up - and work on eliminating the reason causing the discrepancy or you.
B) Ship Out - and you withdraw from self awareness.

Your mind does this to get rid of the discrepancy.

So in your and my case you don't like what you see (lack of continuous studying where you or your teacher expect from you) and it creates discrepancy between your mental goals and your actual state and you dive into a distraction. The theory is that this is why people dive into distractions like alcohol, spending lives on the internet, binge eating, or even watching TV.

I.E. there was a study that created an IQ test and irrespective of the actual results they told half people that they failed the test and that they are 'dumb' and told the other half that they passed it and are 'clever'. Then they were put into a room with a TV and those that were told that 'failed' watched it significantly longer than those that 'passed'.


Clearly poker and poker forums work as that withdrawing distraction for me/you and its hard to focus fully on it and act rationally when it is a mere cause from withdrawing self awareness from the real thing that causes the discrepancy=>lack of studying/results at school.

Its hard to do things about it, I am fucking posting on a forum when I have 30 pages to write in 10 days. Usually with uni it comes to that I keep distracting myself and rationalizing things that lead towards me not studying until I arrive at the latest possible time that allows me to finish before deadline and the push towards results becomes so immense that I summon massive mental strength and focus and finish shit I need to finish which sick high efficiency (my record is some 16k words of a report and 6 separate essays in 2 days), while completely draining myself .

aggressive BR mngt is good if you don't rely so much on the income from poker, but playing 5/10$ with 6000$ is degenerate imo. beside hand 1, i like how you played those hands. good luck regrinding.

Just FYI, I'm nor sure if I am being helpful, it sure does want me to go study now :D (My dissertation is on the difference between Homo Economicus, e.g. poker players and actual people)

On March 19 2011 10:37 PplusAD wrote: Show nested quote + On March 18 2011 09:16 Jhyun88 wrote: help.. I need to quit playing cap 5/10 flips.. 1 day laterz   On March 19 2011 09:56 Jhyun88 wrote: Busted 90% of my rolls @ high stakes lol problem solved

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On March 19 2011 10:30 edzwoo wrote: I'm going to be a bit blunt, but more of your hands are tracked of course besides the ones put up here. Maybe I'm wrong but it looked more like you were playing hyper aggressive everywhere, including spots that don't make much sense, and trying to win every single pot. If that's true, coupled with the very first hand (where you are bluffing into a range that is repping massive strength), you really need to take a step back and ask yourself if you were playing good poker, or you were just feeding a gambling problem because of the thrill of winning pots off of the top regs. What kind of stats were you running that session? Side note, one of those shortstackers is a 1ptbb/winner over many many hands in the midstakes. The other is bad but doesn't seem to be a gigantic whale. I'd suggest really re-thinking what happened today and how it might affect you in the long term.

Thanks for the bluntness, I do appreciate it.

I was playing aggressive but It wasn't completely out of the norm from how I normally play. It was 350? hands on the non-capped table and rest from capped where obviously theres a lot of shoving going on... That being said you may be right as I was playing around 30%vpip and 10% 3b from what I remember (I'm away from my desktop atm) But I normally play around 27% vpip anyways.

Did I play good poker? No I don't think so. I made some obvious mistakes in small-medium pots in bluffing bit too frequent and over leveling myself once or twice.

I can honestly say I don't have a gambling problem however, nor do I get thrill off winning against certain players. I've had plenty of "breaks" for over a month period where I just did not feel like playing poker. If something important forces me to quit poker this instantly, I would not think twice about it. Only real problem is my awareness of money involved disappears when I sit on online tables. Surprisingly enough, today was about the only time I really played way over my limit. I always kept decent br management.

I also take back what I said about being able to hold my own here if I had couple fishes here and there. I wasn't aware the guy was a winning shortstacker. I was being delusional + I've been getting overconfident b/c success I've been having at my limits this year.

Funny enough, I don't feel too bad about it yet.... Maybe it will hit me tomorrow. I'm confident I can rebuilt at nl100 XD

42s flush hand, probably too thin to be profitable. You are basically only getting value from Ax that are likely going to fold on that river and only going to get called by hands that have you beat. You may however, fold out better K, but villain may just call with a higher flush there because if you had a king, there's a good chance you may have bombed turn for value. And if you were really aggro for the last few hands, yeah, better flushes still may call.

The A7s, I think you should just call and play poker postflop. I mean, sure, you are really never in that bad of a shape getting it in there, but I think it's way more +EV to call for numerous reasons.

KQs hand, I don't know if I even like calling a 3bet OOP w/ KQs there to begin with. On turn, you have a pretty good equity, I don't know if you really want to get jammed on at turn. It might be better to just close the action and see river. That ace on turn is a card villain is going to fire at a high frequency in 3bet pot imo, and you do have the nut air (although, villain firing there is going to be almost always value since he would've bet all his air, overpairs, top pairs and draws on flop, and checking back ace high for control).