aaaaaaaaaaaaand tilt.

Watched the Being Regular - How to Crush 4NL video for about the third time but this time made notes, checked ranges and basically paid attention and learned from it. A few notes I made which I think will help my game:

03:15 Jon doesn't defend BB with A6s vs CO open. This is a mistake I have been making, defending weak suited aces vs CO. This hand for example is bang in the middle of a 27% opening range so we are not ahead enough to play OOP. If villain is loose and plays 35% + in the CO then I guess it would be ok to defend.

03:15 Jon doesn't open 54o on the button. I would open as it's in my 50% range but realised a big mistake I make is relying on my ranges too heavily and not adjusting enough to villains stats. 54o is the very bottom of the range so I should be opening against tighter players and folding against looser players. Same goes for all ranges/positions, I should check stats and also stack sizes before opening a hand rather than opening just because I check my saved flopzilla charts and see it in there.

03:40 Similar thing with K8o in the small blind. It's bottom of the range so not always an open.

11:50 Jon folds A3o SB vs BB bet, mentions it could be a good spot to 4bet with the right read on villain. Realised I almost never 4bet bluff but often do for value. I should balance my play more with bluffs when villain shows high 3bet/fold to 4bet stats.

25:00 Great play by Jon calling river donk bet with second pair. Well explained logic on turn and river that was great to watch and learn from.

Would like to play more today but taking kids to fireworks, then getting some sleep before work at 2am

Played 11 tourneys last night. Cashed in 2 (5th for 13.72 euros, 10th for 7 euros), for a whopping 7.72 euros profit.

This week:



Believe it or not I feel like I'm getting better.

Should play tonight but I'm running on 2 hours sleep after working overtime all night. So I'm putting my feet up, sipping a beer and listening to one of those mental game podcasts.

wow 3 times that is pretty damn epic! Glad you get so much from it. I have just made another Sky series playing mixed stakes 4nl-30nl which you can see part 1 of Here. This was made just 1 week ago so has a lot of new relevant lines in and i think will benefit your game a lot. Please report back :). It's a 4 parter btw and a series i am super proud of as we develop reads as we go along.

Are you 0FlushGordon in the OPL tournis?

Not me I'm afraid. Haven't actually read up on what OPL is, doing so right now...

Shame because FlushGordon is actually a really good play on your name

I'm always FlashAhahhh or some close variation.

Ok I signed up, don't know if my accounts have bound correctly but I'm registered for tomorrows FTP $150 added.

Just seen you in there! Shame you are not flushgordon as that would be quite an epic play on your name like @BarraBod said. Any idea how many OPL tournaments you plan to play across season 1?

No idea, will just see how it goes I guess.

Thought I was gonna do ok in my first OPL tourney, got it in KK vs 88...






Look forward to the next one!

You did bit better than me, I got two outered as is the norm

Next time!

Playing some cash games at the same time. Was going ok until I got KK in vs A3s...

Thought I was making the loss back when...

AK vs KK

I don't normally tilt from bad beats, but man they've been relentless the last two days. So many hands I've got it in good and lost. Look forward to the time I run good and win them all!

How do you snap out of this?

I expect we all have different ways of dealing with these times, my way is using my sense of humour. I can laugh at most things, so that's what I do; it's unsurprisingly effective for me.

Other people take a step back from the tables for a break and some people can say, 'Pfff, variance!' and carry one. No doubt there are as many ways to deal with tough times in the game as there are people playing.

Do you have a particular methodology you use at all? I would expect people to reference Jared Tendler et al books but they're not for me.