Sigh, another sub-par month. I guess I really just suck? I dunno, but I'm on a 60k breakeven right now (if I were to expand my graph to previous months). I did have a nice rally towards the end so that I didn't end the month in the red or breakeven, so that's nice, and admittedly I did run pretty good in that stretch, so let's hope it continues. Graph is 18k hands at 2/4, 20k hands at 1/2.

I AM making significant adjustments though. I'm now playing a tighter style, as I'm usually 27/22 but now I've tightened up to roughly 23/19. I might even be adjusting this to 21/17. Overall I'm bluffing a lot less, and just being a bit more solid overall, while retaining my lag post-flop knowledge but with now I have better hands since I'm folding marginal hands a lot more .

So I'm basically a tag now, which is kinda unfun but I really need to focus on just making money right now because I'm about to be dicked by a shitton of expenses. Fall quarter is starting up so rent + tuition + buying shit for the new apartment is going to own me. Also I'm heading to Japan (and possibly Macau for APPT Macau) in 24 days so that's going to burn my wallet for sure. Going to try to grind as much as possible while I'm still in the states, but I'm ofc brining my laptop to grind a bit while overseas (staying in Japan for a whole month).

GL everyone


OH YEAH some hands since I've been forgetting:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/491781 - I get a retarded tagfish to 3bet/call Q9o and stack off on a monotone board ship it

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/493697 - Multi street bluff deep in 3b pot


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one of my swingiest days in recent memory. Super run good -> run poor/some spew -> run good again. FINALLY ftp letting me run good hopefully it just isn't a 1 day phase. I actually quit at the very bottom of the V pissed off as hell, then started a night session with only one goal: winning it all back.

AND NOW IM EVEN FOR THE MONTH ROFL ASDFKJDASKLFSD


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I've never been so close to quitting poker than now. I really don't know how this is happening. Emo post incoming.


My July


Since May

I only have hands since May because I don't have hands prior to that on this computer. If I were to check though I'd imagine the 2/4 shit stretch to be even longer (150k hands ish). Note pics are in bb/100 not ptbb (halve the figure to make it into ptbb).

For 4 months I've just been running like dog shit. I've constantly re-evaluated my game. I talk poker with some of the best players in the world, my coach is one of the greatest players to play this game, etc etc. I just really can't figure out why I can't seem to win anymore. I could easily be wrong, and maybe I'm just spouting crazy talk, but I honestly felt at one point I was good enough to be a 5/10 grinder (not a great feat by any means though) - only that I could never build a 50bi roll because of cash outs and because I could never run hot and have the 20k month I've always wanted. Sure I'll have a session where I'd run good, say maybe a 5k stretch. But it's always sandwiched inbetween huge stretches of running like trash. Almost every form of running bad that can be listed is happening to me: 1 outers, set over sets, nonstop flip lose stretches, overpair vs overpair ai pf coolers, always the 2nd best vs the pure nuts, etc. It's really, really astounding to me how so much of this shit can happen. It's not even "the shortterm" anymore because I've been complaining about the same issues since like February or March now.

Overall since coming to Stars I'm down at least 7k there in mostly 1/2. One fucking two. The limit I decided that 8ptbb/100 was sustainable at, my stomping grounds. It's not as if the players have gotten better, sure there's less fish, but the games are filled with so many tagfish it's amazing. Players with no concept of game theory, of hand reading, of anything, but manage to win flips and cooler and have hands hold. Effectively, that's what it comes down to in order to sustain a 5ptbb winrate for these players it seems.

I've devoted the past 6 months to sharpening my abilities of playing a loose, aggressive poker style, now I'm starting to have second thoughts maybe I should just move back to FTP and grind 16 tables playing 16/12. It seems to work for those nits.

What can I do?

Edit: At the end of my March, I posted in my blog where I had the first losing month of my life. Ket replied with some encouraging words and I'd like to think they help, although this feels completely different than my March now. I really like to read it, so if you're interested I pasted it below.
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