And I think I'm passive!

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

UTG: $26.01 (VPIP: 25.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 4)
CO: $18.10 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: $27.26 (VPIP: 50.00, PFR: 50.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
SB: $25.67 (VPIP: 37.04, PFR: 33.33, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 28)
Hero (BB): $26.73

SB posts SB $0.10, Hero posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 4d Ad
fold, CO calls $0.25, fold, fold, Hero raises to $1.00, CO calls $0.75

Flop : ($2.10, 2 players) 5d 9s Qc
Hero bets $1.00, CO calls $1.00

Turn : ($4.10, 2 players) 7c
Hero checks, CO checks

River : ($4.10, 2 players) 9h
Hero checks, CO checks

Hero shows 4d Ad (One Pair, Nines)
(Pre 32%, Flop 6%, Turn 0%)

CO shows Qs Ah (Two Pair, Queens and Nines)
(Pre 68%, Flop 94%, Turn 100%)

CO wins $3.92

Oh shite not that sort of 70/0 fish.

Next orbit.........


PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BB: $25.00 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
UTG: $21.14 (VPIP: 77.78, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 10)
MP: $26.21 (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 30.77, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
CO: $26.06 (VPIP: 29.41, PFR: 26.47, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 35)
Hero (BTN): $25.62
SB: $8.50 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 6)

SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has Qd 8s
UTG calls $0.25, MP raises to $1.25, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG calls $1.00

Flop : ($2.85, 2 players) 5s 9h Tc
UTG checks, MP checks

Turn : ($2.85, 2 players) Qh
UTG bets $1.36, MP calls $1.36

River : ($5.57, 2 players) 7h
UTG checks, MP checks

UTG shows Ac Ad (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 93%, Flop 98%, Turn 91%)

MP mucks Kc As (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 7%, Flop 2%, Turn 9%)

UTG wins $5.32

Dem thin value checks though

Playing and losing at NL25. Got lucky in that I'm ahead on EV but otherwise I'm getting smoked.

This was the final straw. Board looked so dry that check raise I felt wasn't needed. Turn I think OK could be turned straight draw and pair, all the sets, some 2 pairs. Only 86 beats me and he wouldn't call all those vs 3bet would he? Once he goes for it the 86 becomes a bigger % but have to call now as have direct odds. Still sucks to get over 100bb's behind with flopped top set on this board.

Booooooo.

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

Hero (SB): $28.00
BB: $26.94 (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 57)
BTN: $32.66 (VPIP: 34.78, PFR: 32.61, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 47)

Hero posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has Ks Kd
BTN raises to $0.52, Hero raises to $1.70, fold, BTN calls $1.18

Flop : ($3.65, 2 players) Kh 5s 9c
Hero checks, BTN bets $2.15, Hero calls $2.15

Turn : ($7.95, 2 players) 7d
Hero checks, BTN bets $4.68, Hero raises to $12.20, BTN raises to $28.81 and is all-in, Hero calls $11.95 and is all-in

River : ($56.25, 2 players) 2h

Hero shows Ks Kd (Three of a Kind, Kings)
(Pre 79%, Flop 84%, Turn 23%)

BTN shows 6h 8h (Straight, Nine High)
(Pre 21%, Flop 16%, Turn 77%)

BTN wins $55.25

Shot well and truly over. I played horrible this time. Just mindless tilt losing me 6 BI.

Back to NL10.

I would personally just keep on betting there as a check raise looks seriously strong and we have a seriously strong hand. Villain cant really continue with bluffs or marginals once you do that so we are just praying he has a set or 2 pair.

As played its super unlucky of course.

Sorry to hear about the 25nl shot but this is a part of the game we all go through and i promise you it is what makes us better. Always think of the long term, shrug it off, learn from mistakes and crush 10nl again then get back up there!

Oh no of course I was not expecting to do as well as I did. I spun it out for 4500 hands, being nearly 4BI up at my peak then the variance reversed a bit and got me back to break even. I actually only lost 2 BI (3 EV adj) net but the end was rough. Worst one was getting AIPF with JJ. Monkey made the initial shove from UTG and I was way ahead of his range but a reg called in the BTN and then I called AI after him. His range was basically KK+. On a shot I should have minimised the variance and given it up. He needed too much AK to make it work.

I'm going to have a little bit of Zoom for fun then go back to reg tables. Its not long ago I felt NL10 was impossible.

Zoom was a cooler fest today. Lost another BI. I won a couple early on coolering some poor regs then I ran top 2 into a flopped set. He instashoved flop and I called him off. Then overpair into flopped set. He called 3bet OOP with 44. Binked and then pot donked the flop and shoved a blank turn.

Awesome.

I need another break from poker. I'm getting so hammered again I just did this.. Flat the 3bet squeeze to keep his likely narrow range from being exactly AA. When he flats instead of reshoving the back raise shove it screams KK+ and I tank fold. If I was right I had about 20%. Takes nothing to make it good though just add AKs or QQ and its easy. I didn't expect what I saw.

Such scared money. So tight as a result. I am Jack's total lack of self confidence.

PokerStars - $0.10 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4: http://www.pokertracker.com

BTN: $10.15 (VPIP: 20.55, PFR: 12.33, 3Bet Preflop: 3.03, Hands: 77)
SB: $14.73 (VPIP: 13.04, PFR: 8.70, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 23)
BB: $11.32 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
Hero (UTG): $16.81
MP: $5.70 (VPIP: 100.00, PFR: 100.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1)
CO: $8.78 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)

SB posts SB $0.05, BB posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Ks Kd
Hero raises to $0.35, fold, CO calls $0.35, fold, SB raises to $1.50, fold, Hero calls $1.15, CO raises to $8.78 and is all-in, SB calls $7.28, fold

Flop : ($19.16, 2 players) 5h Kc 9s

Turn : ($19.16, 2 players) 9c

River : ($19.16, 2 players) Jd

SB shows 6d 6c (Two Pair, Nines and Sixes)
(Pre 19%, Flop 10%, Turn 5%)

CO shows Qc Qs (Two Pair, Queens and Nines)
(Pre 81%, Flop 90%, Turn 95%)

CO wins $18.30

Tried again as new weekend so new start. Still getting smashed. Down $380 from my peak on the tables. BR is at $580 still only thanks to bonuses and such. Going to take the rest of the weekend off now.

I need to start all over again at NL2 I think as my game is destroyed by total lack of confidence as per usual.

Again gave it a week off and came back at the weekend. No change. In the last 10k hands including and since my failed NL25 shot I've been losing at 15bb/100 (10bb EV). I've been running pretty bad but even so its incredible.

My stats are all pretty normal for me, even a little tighter than usual but my blue line is negative. That has never happened to me before really. Fold too much and be a useless weak passive fish sure but never a bad blue line. My Cbeting is 50, 40, 30 flop turn and river so I'm not barrelling off like a spaz. My fold to river bet is 65% and Call River Eff is 1.9 so I'm not paying off too light. My VPIP PFR is 22/19 so I'm not being too lose pre. 3bet is 8% so not crazy there. WtSD is 26% and W$SD is 50%. Slightly odd is 3bet success at 30% (pretty low) and fold to 3bet at 75% (not seen it that high in a while) but for all this my redline is stable so its not that I'm getting run over with bluffs (or at least any more than usual). I just can't win a decent pot of any type at showdown. If I make a hand they fold, have the nuts or draw out on me at the minute.

This needs to turn around quick. My BR is dwindling. I'm going to try and do another video again. Normally it engages super doomswitch so I'm hoping that this time it flips the switch the other way. If not at least I've got something to watch back as I try and understand what the hell I'm doing wrong or if this really just is variance.

Try a saver as well. Anything will do right now!

Nope video worked as usual only from a worse start point.

Lost another chunk. Flopped boat beaten by turned 2 outer, KK vs AA, QQ vs AA, AA vs KK and lost, TPTK vs turned 2 pair vs shortstack, TPTK vs rivered flush vs short stack, AKs vs JJ on AKJ. No point posting that it was all super coolers. I got passive in the end as well as I was getting hammered so much I started to fold TP to a single raise and check folding AK on 953r as there was no way I could see to book a win with it.

I'm done for another week then.

I've spent about 5 hours going over the last 10k hands of my database today. Before this I was winning at 6bb/100. My stats and ranges are largely unchanged. The only ones that have really are Cbet success rate which has fallen on all streets but really bombed on the river from around 60% (betting 39%) to now being 39% (betting 32%) so I'm betting a stronger range, getting called more and always losing when I do. There are a lot of mistakes of course with me bluffing some bad cards (rare) or calling down an aggro player as 'they never have it' and seeing nuts but I don't think I'm doing anything worse. I will need to drop to NL5 if I fall below $300 but I'm still at $500 for now so got space to work with just now.

I think this is a positive. I'm just getting destroyed by variance and negativity.

Probably varience but cbet stats of 50/40/30 are not going to be good! You probably have a losing blue line because of variance but if you are not barrelling to get villain to fold draws that get there and not building a pot for when you make a big hand then your winds at SD will be lower and you will lose more often at SD as you let villain realise his equity way more often!

Yeah I guess that is low its normally 60/50/40. At NL10 Zoom though no-one ever folds so you will be spewing off stacks trying to barrel people off things. My Cbet success is 36/32/49 over all three streets, even with tight cbeting stats. If I opened that up too much I'd be broke by now I think!

What you think would be good numbers then? I thought even that was being too aggressive actually given the way people play and my cards in the last run!

nononooooooooo its gotta be ascending! If you are getting 32% folds OTT then you can bet like 60% with any cards with some kind of equity and it is +EV! TO get 49% of folds OTR is HUGE! I would say that 45/50/60 looks sweet at 10nl given that! I'd advise you cbet OTT IP when you have any kind of FD and the turn is higher than the highest OTF. Eg flop is 892 turn is J bet it and then bet OTR. Villain will fold so often with his 8x and sometimes we make TP and win, sometimes we make our flush and win and sometimes he just folds OTT anyway.

I'd also say stop playing zoom and get on regular tables! WAY fishier and you always get to choose who you are playing

Thanks for the advice Cookie, I do appreciate it. I'll try not to be such a whiner! I know what you say about reg tables. I'm 10bb/100 on reg tables and 2.5bb/100 on Zoom now after this down swong. Much better to play reg tables but I play in small bursts because of real life and kids and stuff.

I just love Zoom even when it smashes me up. Its like crack.

That doesn't sound like a good thing even if you're joking (which I assume you are). I also assume that you're not playing for a living so even thou you don't want to leave Zoom tables you can still do a couple of things to buy yourself some much needed mental insurance. First of all tweak your bankroll management strategy. Playing with 25BI bankroll when you're losing at a fast rate can be very stressful. Consider playing at NL10. It can also make the downswing less severe since the average player at NL10 is worse and higher edge on your opponents is one of the variance reducing factor.

Also, consider taking a break. Right now, you're probably stuck in negative feedback loop expecting bad results every time you start the session because of past experience. 2-3 days might be everything you need to weaken or even break that loop.

You can also change the site you're playing on. Unless you have SuperNova status PokerStars VIP scheme is somewhat underwhelming and since you're not playing much consider making a switch to different site with zoom poker variant and better rakeback deal (ipoker sounds like a good choice). Good rakeback can make your losing streaks much less unpleasant.

Good luck sir!

Yeah just jokes, I've not got a drug habit. Although having said that crack is pretty moreish.....

I am playing NL10 with over 50 BI. I had a small failed shot at NL25 at 30BI and stepped back down when I lost 4BI. I'm just donking about for fun so happy on Stars for now. Got a great restart deal as had been away for a while and up to the first $50 award the RB on stars is actually not too bad, given the lower rake.

Mainly though I play on Stars as when you just play for fun I want slick fun software and on that at least Stars is the stone cold nuts for me.

I'll be looking for a good RB deal in about 2 months when I get to the optimum point RB wise and move on. Thoughts on best bets? I have old Sky account so nothing doing there I don't think RB wise, Stan James and Paddy Power I played at for a while after sign up here and was OK. 888 was total shit and I'll never play at again. Connection was horrible there.

In the meantime I'm back on the reg tables. So soft compared to Zoom, plus I ran well which you need to beat the station fish as you sure as shit are not exploiting any overfolding. I think Zoom is just for short bursts to sharpen the saw so I can go back to reg. Mental game wise I think the meditation challenge is a good step, felt a lot more balanced today when I shoved KK vs AA twice, and fish rivered me a couple of times. Being on a hot streak helps though so I guess the challenge will be when I'm getting crushed.

Oh hello reg tables!

I'm glad to see you're doing better! When it comes to deals Sky is interesting. Solid rakeback wise and from what I've heard the quality of games is really good. Ipoker is also a popular choice. Good value and they also have zoom poker variant in their offer.

You mentioned meditation. It won't be an easy, instant fix for everything, but it will help you a lot in the long run. Remember to start posting updates in meditation challenge topic starting tomorrow!