The Well: Black_Knight6

[black_knight6]

[iceman5]

Dont get me wrong. Im not critisizing you. Im trying to help you. Nobody knows better than I do how much a bad losing streak and / or playng bad can affect your homelife. I think it affects mine way more than it should because I have a hard time controlling my emotions away from the game when Im getting killed. I know for a fact that it would be multiplied immensly if I had no other income.

I saw your losing streak coming because I was reading alot of your NL posts at that time and noticied a pattern of FPS which was the same thing I experienced each and every time I moved up a level. I believe I commented on it a few times in your NL threads but I dont think you took me seriously.

The confusing part about what you say about your losing streak is that you say you were cold decked to the point that Shobute couldnt believe it. Im not doubting that at all. But if it was that bad, how is it still 90% your fault?

How bad did you run exactly? What are your total 2/4 stats?

Maybe it was 50% cold deck and 50% bad play due to a combo of trying to make up cold deck losses / tilt / playing badly due to stress induced by pressure to pay bills with poker money? That sounds more likely. Maybe Im splitting hairs, but if the cold deck was as bad as you say, 90% is too much blame to place on yourself.

[black_knight6]

[iceman5]

[RedBarracuda]

[black_knight6]

[RedBarracuda]

[black_knight6]

I got a brown belt in karate (fast track to black belt, but got in that car accident that ended my golf career...at least one for university). I haven't been in a fight since grade 9. I was a smaller kid, and cocky, so I got in scraps a lot when I was younger...since I got the brown belt (in grade 9), the last fight I got into ended badly for the other guy. When word got around, no one ever fvcked with me again...haven't been in a fight since. I'll detail an ALMOST fight the other month when I get back from golfing.

[SebQtaneus]

[AlexMR]

[black_knight6]

I've started a new routine.

The other night Shob and I went through EVERY hand of a 1500hand session in PT. Basically, went into Game Notes "get all" filter by date (earliest first), and looked at every hand where I put in >4bb (so, we know what I'm raising, calling, etc). Only takes about 20min, but we learned a lot about my game atm.

Couple things. I still have that persistent problem of not betting enough...I use AHK but often the bet sizing isn't nearly enough and I haven't been adjusting. So, I've immediately made a huge adjustment and the review of today's session showed a huge improvement. Another thing was that I didn't have sufficiently good plans OOP in raised/reraised pots. However, this issue takes a LONG time to work on...but at least I'm putting more effort into it now. Again, made some improvement on that today. Another one was looking for edges. We discussed an article on reciprocality (I HATE that word...should just be reciprocity) and how this one guy thinks that people get an edge in poker.

Basically, if everyone plays a given hand the same way, there's no edge. So, for example, since people tend to play AA similar to each other (at least more similar than they do other hands, though not true across the board), there isn't a really big edge in AA as a hand. There's great profit, but not so much 'edge'. However, there's a TONNE of edge in a hand like QTs since that's a hand that gets played a tonne of different ways, and good players will be able to extract lots of value, while bad players will tend to lose a lot with hands like QTs, J9s etc...so, I'm thinking of ways to play certain hands better than average (or even good players) in order to generate a bigger edge.

So, to answer you alex: I HAVE reviwed PT to try and see what was going on. I couldn't find anything obvious, but it's most likely nothing 'big' but a lot of really small things that just add up to really tip the balance.

[kennyg]

[MBuckler]

BK-
do you ever find yourself getting into a "rut" with your play? if so, how do you get out? i ask b/c i feel like i'm playing by a "playbook". granted, its a winning playbook, but i feel like my game is somewhat repetitive and predictable and if i were to playing at higher stakes, it would be picked up on very quickly.

[Xaston]

[excession]