Bet flop, he check folds here so often. probably lost a stack with Aces doesn't want to do it again. Ironic, he made 1.5bb more than he would have done if he has raised preflop

Bloody hell Cookie don't tilt me. He actually outplayed me into giving him max value!

Out played mate, out played

Ah shit yeh I read that wrong - nice work on it not being broken.

Happy you like the competition

Yuk, I'm on a horrible run the last couple of days. Only 2k hands but bloody hell.

Apart from this hand below which was lol I've not won a hand bigger than 30bb's. My WWSF is 32% despite only playing 18% of hands as been card dead. I'm on my verson of tilt now where all I can see is more defeat because everyone is outplaying me. Flopping a set or holding an overpair I'm just looking for how I will lose a stack not any real value. Sad timing with the competition on but I think I need to do something else for a bit, have a think about what I can do with stretches like this to take some value from them. The mental game progress I thought I'd made, washed away. Turns out I've made a lot of progress with the effect of losing when I'm trying things but the underlying issue of feeling hopeless when I'm being runover is stronger than ever.

Standard preflop line here. The old limp, raise, cold 3bet, flat, 4bet, 5bet, flat, 6bet, 7bet jam. Its a line as old as poker.

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

BTN: $10.10 (VPIP: 19.28, PFR: 15.66, 3Bet Preflop: 3.03, Hands: 85)
SB: $4.91 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 2)
Hero (BB): $10.00
UTG: $16.17 (VPIP: 23.08, PFR: 18.46, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 68)
MP: $1.82 (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 12)
CO: $24.77

SB posts SB $0.05, Hero posts BB $0.10

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.15) Hero has Ac Ad
fold, fold, CO calls $0.10, fold, SB raises to $0.20, Hero raises to $0.75, CO calls $0.65, SB raises to $1.30, Hero raises to $2.50, CO calls $1.75, SB raises to $3.70, Hero raises to $10.00 and is all-in, CO calls $7.50, SB calls $1.21 and is all-in

Flop : ($24.91, 3 players) Th 5d 9d

Turn : ($24.91, 3 players) Qc

River : ($24.91, 3 players) 9s

Hero shows Ac Ad (Two Pair, Aces and Nines)

Main Pot [$14.73]: (Pre 81%, Flop 73%, Turn 74%)
Side Pot [$10.18]: (Pre 92%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)

CO shows Td As (Two Pair, Tens and Nines)

Main Pot [$14.73]: (Pre 7%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
Side Pot [$10.18]: (Pre 8%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)

SB shows Kc Qh (Two Pair, Queens and Nines)

Main Pot [$14.73]: (Pre 12%, Flop 19%, Turn 21%)

Hero wins $23.79

Hi Paul.
Its funny I kinda wrote similar things on running bad on my blog and saw you are in the same boat.
Sorry to say , but it kinda makes me feel bit easier about myself.
Guess couse of feeling, that not only myself is coping with this same issues , if you know what I mean.
I think its that kind of thing which we need to grind thru to move level above it.
Well tomorw is another day to fight.
Hope our luck improves.
Btw you mentioned a competition in your post. Can you tell me what competiton ?
Cheers

Yeah get yourself over to the HH forum section. There is a post on there from Jon, advertising a competition to win $50 bankroll on Tonybet. Its serious value, for just doing some study, posting and replying to hands.

I'm not really on it as internet is weak and I'm having a day to reflect on my mental game challenge before a really busy week at work. When I'm on it I'm all in though.

Its not a luck issue really. I have made a lot of progress with losing, especially on pure luck after the All In button is clicked. I feel like that has a minimal effect on me. My bigger issue for me is when I just have to fold all the time. Its a clear ego issue on reflection where I hate to feel weak and outplayed. The odd thing about it is that it never seems to result in agro spew anymore. I'm so conscious of it that I end up folding even more, calling to try and 'hit the flop', chasing draws that I never normally would just because everyone else hits, and then folding when I miss.

Warm up doesn't seem to help with it so far, but not focussed on it up to now. Will be the centre of my warm up if I have a session tonight. I might meditate a bit on this tonight instead though. And then shoot a load of bitches on Call of Duty. Y'know, for balance. Ying and Yang and all that.

@Sharky This is the Competition buddy

@thetallpaul stop being a fish and crush the competition! BITCH

I'm just not in the mood for spamming HH to get the win. I'll probs do some more this weekend as have had a few odd spots where I've been very unsure on range but I'm enjoying playing and focussing on a few areas from the W34z3l video. I also need to get another video recorded but every time I hit record all the action dies and I end up with the dullest bullshit video ever. I might do one where I get extra laggy just for fun and to give you something to talk about.

In goal news I got a 10k in finally after my injury and PB'd it. 48:19 now so not a big step down but having not done a 10k for a couple of months I'm pretty happy with that. 45m and 20m 5km's still feel a bloody long way off though. After the injury I'm only at 245km for the year so well off pace for 1000km year.

Pokerwise I've been a bit breakeven this month I guess on Zoom (and obvs losing on Unibet, wtf is up with that site) however its still a small win and since March, post the W34z3l review I'm at +6bb/100 which is OK I guess. The surprising thing is that the rakeback on Stars is awesome right now. Sometimes the offers they put on in a month are nut value. This month the Cardchase just requires you to win hands with certain cards and when you've done it (takes about 500 hands roughly if you're not forcing it) you get $1+. So far in the 18 days I've played I've cleared $40 from that. With the Star points I'm running 40% RB. Means my BR is now a bit healthier. $350 on Stars, $70 on Unibet (after withdrew my tourney bink) and then another $330 in Skrill that I withdrew just to limit my exposure after getting robbed last year. So BR total back to $750. Potentially enough to move to NL25 for a shot but I don't think I'm skilled enough for that yet. I'd like to keep my Zoom winning going and developing on mental game and bluffing autoprofit spots.

My main mental game issue now I think is not losing, which is good, or runbad or anything. Its dealing with periods where I get runover and never get to showdown. Its an ego thing, and it plays to the mindtraps I have about being useless and everyone is better than me so they are bluffing me outrageously. Sometimes that's going to happen and its just key to make sure I don't make it worse by overfolding as I lose confidence or spaz raise 'because they can't always have it' or whatever. Last week I had a bit of an overfolding session and it really sucked. Yesterday I coped a lot better with one of those sessions but on reflection I think getting AA AIPF vs 88 for 50bb allowed me to change the momentum. I did notice what I was doing and that's still better than last week but really I need to be able to do that without a well timed bit of rungood or villain spaz.

2016 Goals

Run 1000km in 2016 - 245km way behind pace
5km in under 22m - DONE 21:31. Now shooting for sub 20min
10km in under 45m - 48:19 - Still a long way to go
Run my first organised race - DONE (ish). I ran a 10km with my wife but stayed with her so not really a race as such.

Continue my Poker progress. - Doing well here I think. Still a very SD orientated game but happy with where my game is at right now, and progress hopefully continue. I need to get back on Snowie group and do some theory work but the last batch of that I did in re working Cbet strategy on boards and some float/probe adjustments I think are a positive.

Be positive and stop attacking myself. - This is the bit I'm happiest with. Not so many whiney posts this year, and generally I'm mentally in a better spot.

The last point is the best - lets keep that one on track

That's the plan boss. I'm playing Zoom and not losing my shit altogether. That's amazing.

This guy. Summarising how everyone plays on Unibet.

LOVE that! New SN for me

Haha love that!

Bloody hell I'm bored of Zoom. Never thought I'd say that but its starting to grate on me. I've regressed to my normal winrate of 2bb/100 which is still better than most but its just so dull. Just nut peddling back and forth and hoping you have the right side of the coolers. Bored bored bored bored.

Its only fun when on a heater where you cooler a guy with a set a couple of times and then maybe a cbet bluff with two overs and a GS actually gets through, and then you get 2 streets from TP vs guy chasing his draw who bricks. Most of the time its a dreary grind slowly losing the chips you win on the occasional heaters.

Reg tables though are just so slow and table selection is no fun. I think I could do with learning a new game. SNG's maybe? Open Face Chinese? I really enjoyed playing all the rando tickets on Unibet but I cannot win at that site and not being able to review is annoying when you have little confidence in your game and want to check back how it went afterwards.

Play less tables on a softer site and play higher stakes.

LDO

LDO OFC brah. Jajajaja

I don't have the mental resilience for that. Route to busto right there.

Looks to me like you need some PLO in your life. Table selection is unnecessary because on every site where playing PLO is even possible (The Hive, Microgaming, Ipoker) every table is good. Plus, even though you're playing even fewer hands per hour than in holdem the ones you do play are infinitely more interesting;) That being said the variance in a game with 140-180bb/100 standard deviation is nothing short of insane but then again it's easier to achieve high win rate and that's the only thing that can actually decrease variance. Just a friendly suggestion but the first time you experience 10 buy-in swing in 30min don't blame me

PLO?! With my mental game?!

If I didn't know he was the mindful font of zen and wisdom I'd swear that scamp @MattVIP is trolling me!

Double route to busto!