Hey there!

I'm going to start a blog/poker journal. I miss being able to talk about poker in some sort of a personal place, and now that I make videos for RIO I cannot talk any strategy in my own blog in Spanish (http://ramifish.blogspot.mx/), so I feel this is the place to do it. I will talk about how am I doing at the tables, some strategy or interesting hands from time to time, life in general, travels and also some random stuff. I won't definitely not be posting in a regular basis, just whenever I feel I have something interesting to say or whenever I want to tell something :) Let's get started

I'm in a downswing. I'm playing very poorly these last days. There has been a proggressive change in my game for the last weeks. When I moved to Playa del Carmen my game was very very well structured, I knew all the time or at least very often what I was doing with my entire range in most situations. There is a session review that will come on air I think on 18th February (in 3 days), and I am very proud of the way I thought back when I recorded it. But I don't think I can think like that right now! Here is the reason.

I came here and I share the condo with 2 friends from Spain. They play in a much more exploitative way than I do. We of course talk hands and strategy, and, even though at the beginning it was good for me because I started to make profitable exploitative moves I wasn't making before, soon it was too much! When you exploit there is never an end to it, and somewhere along the way my gameplan began to get lost, I wasn't thinking the way I used to, I was starting to purely exploit without thinking much about my range.

Also, I don't know why, but I am trying to win too many pots instead of trying to start from a well balanced gameplan, which is what definitely works better for me. Here is hands from 1st September to 31st December, WWSF 47.5, W$SD 52,6, very reasonable for me:

And here, this 2017. Besides not winning any money and being in downswing with a 44% W$SD, if you take a look at WWSF and W$SD, WWSF is 2 points higher than W$SD, which is something never had happened to me in years! So I'm somehow trying to win every pot instead of trying to play well.

So my plan is to go back home, it's very cozy there and Pio is waiting for me in front of the fireplace :)