April Goals
- Focus on pre flop ranges including cold calling, 3-betting and 4-betting
- Work on my flop c-betting range and call flop-cbet
- Manage my tilt more effectively using techniques from "The mental game of poker by Jared Tendler"
- Keep my mind and body healthy
- Grind at least 50k hands 6 tabling 10NL 6-max

GL :)

Welcome back n4sty. :)

I have only one hint for you when trying a comeback.

Quality > Quantity.

GL on your grind!

GL!! Always make sure everything else in your life is working out well before playing poker. This game can be cruel, and has crushed many souls over years.

Hi! Gl for everything!
May i ask you what are those ev adj spikes in your graph? There are like 3 of them and they cover more than 60 stacks

So I managed to lose my database when I upgraded Psql, but had a great month and have started at 20NL.

I went through a horrible start to the month but I was very happy with my emotional control and managed to ride it out without making many mistakes which I'm really happy about. I've come up with a strategy at the micros I'm happy about as before I was losing EV by being to aggro with my semi bluffs versus opponents who couldn't fold and conversely calling/raising too light against value heavy ranges.

Keep on improving, good start to the month!

Good luck!

Had a big mental game setback, things have been going really well and I fell apart today. I sometimes have a really fragmented thought process and ended up making some really stupid plays. I thought I'd post my shame in order to discourage plays like this in the future, please point and laugh :)

In the first hand I lead, I'm in two minds about this play but I think I like it to balance out the times I have J9/99/66 but maybe I would be bluffing this too much.
The flop I lead which I don't know if I like....
I think during the session I have some fold equity with my 3bet as some villains raise donk bets with air... I think this is not a good thought process, we want to be more specific with reads and we have odds to call the raise even oop

In hand 2 this is a classic spot I will overplay my hand
After 43 hands villain has an RFI of 43% and a CC of 56% and a fold 3bet of 0/5 so probably not a great player but too soon to tell I think

My thought process was basically... he's bad he could have KJ/JT
At first glance it looks like villain shouldn't have sets but who knows how a player like this plays QQ/44 and he can have KQ.

Really don't like the T8 play here leading is fine but i don't like lead raise calling it off here, as for AK i think you can fold turn here your range is very strong here and would be a pretty stupid bluff for villain here i would need some strong reads to call here especially at micro stakes.

So After a horrible week played this hand badly Vs a tagfish I think.
Was losing 4 buyins in a session and wanted to gamble, probably should be calling the flop min raise and my turn shove isn't folding much out so should just check back

what site do you play on? good luck interested in following this thread, i am a aspiring micros player myself would be cool to chat poker with you on skype if interested.

opening 9Ts in MP is good, raising flop is ok but id prefer just to call wen he re raises we are always in bad shape here, turn is a really bad card. your hand looks like exactly what it is when you shove, would you shove FH or quads here ?

@Zyzz: shuffing the turn with 10 high, i still dont think it´s a good idea to open 9 10 suited from MP. But when you do i think it´s ok to cbet and call the XR, but when villan call the flop 3 bet, i think his hand is pretty well defined to 2 pair or better. I just talk out off experience. I would also have a hard time to get away 6 Moth ago, but then i started to break Down hands like this, so instead of getting in to too many of these spots, i just think it is better to cut them out. At least as long as we play these kinds of stakes, and have quite some focus on volume. But okay, that´s just my opion.

Prinsjay,

I think you misunderstood what i said, i did not say shove the turn here what i said was his hand looks exactly like it is to villain which is a combo draw, if were talking how i would play this hand here i would check/fold the turn in this spot.

As for 9Ts in MP, for me now i open this UTG (6-max) . I used to play pretty tight and fold these type of hands but at 50nl good players are only 3betting like 4-5% and the rest are lower, If there are good aggressive players behind then i will fold this but if not then its always an open for me.

yes Zyzz. I totally aggree in your opening ranges there. And that was just my point. But i also like a check behind in this hand. Because if the Draw goes in, it wery disguised.

i didn't even realise were in pos i sed i would check fold but obv in pos i would just check behind, i wouldn't reraise flop either.

So just had one of the worst days ever, down 8 buy ins in one day and feeling dejected. Spewed at least a buy in and wondering if I should take the evening off.

8 buy-ins is a rough streak in one day. Take the evening off, sleep the night well and try again tommorow.

lost 12 bi monday spent tues,wed, and thursday grinding it back then lost 13 bi today ran pretty awful to say the least but just try to get on with it