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Thanks for the advice guys.  Always interested in upping my game.  Probably going to hit up Prime tonight.  If any Surls will be around and looking for a donkey, let me know.

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    Had a small chip(s) and a chair story on Saturday at TCH...... Went there after watching the UT Baseball game and started playing around 630. Lots of people in town for SXSW, so kinda of fun play

  • Thanks for the sweat, insights, etc. was a fun run

  • Jesus Ferguson and any member of Full Tilt should never, ever be allowed to call someone out as a scammer..

Anyone in Austin play with Mr. Vibes at TCH yesterday?

I got him for ~220

Won a bit over 1200, good session!

Merry Christmas!

 

 

Hitting the two high outs is pretty crazy but the guy had plenty of low outs to half it

This is helpful.



Hitting the two high outs is pretty crazy but the guy had plenty of low outs to half it


No he didn’t... PLO, bro

It says Omaha 8OB right there on the table

 

Bro

 

Man have I gone into a precipitous downturn starting a couple of weeks ago.  I had a great few weeks, then I just seem to have run into bad cards and bad decisions.  I think I'm making good reads and have really good hands at the time, and just keep getting beat.  It's like I'm just not seeing the board and opponents' ranges properly.  The worst part is that, looking back, I can't identify anything I'm really doing wrong; which makes it so difficult to figure out what to change.  I understand variance, and maybe this is just that, but I don't believe in coincidence and I'm the common denominator.  Thoughts/advice on how to generally change my play and/or approach while trying to get out of this funk?  What has worked for you guys in these situations?

I take lots of notes so I can look back at days where the results were really good and really bad to see what the hell I was doing those days.

Usually I find I’m either too loose on the bad days or I just got unlucky in a few sizable hands.

My particular weakness is -calling- too loose pre. All of those $20-30 call-miss-folds add up over the course of a session. This should not be confused with -opening- too loose, which I rarely do. In fact, on bad days I’m often not opening enough.

Take notes and be patient. You’ll need a fair amount of data for it to mean anything, but there’s two good times to plant a tree...

Also look at your cbet strategy and make sure you’re actually using it. I generally start to lose when I cbet too much, but failing to cbet bluff enough flops is also a leak at times

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a rough run in the last 8 weeks took me from being up around $2k for the year to being down about $1,300 for the year.   

we will have to create a new thread in 2020 and call it

In 2020 Hindsight says I should have done better in poker

2020 Variance is a Bitch

I think hand history discussions are the easiest way to track results/decision making.  If you are on a downturn, take extensive notes on your sessions.  Then post the relevant hand histories in here or discuss them in detail with really good poker playing friends.  It's' the best way to review your decision making.  

Look - we've all hit variance and have had some downswings.  The question is whether those downswings are mathematical variance or the result of leaks (like confidence = looser play preflop = tougher decisions when put to the test all-in) that always occur in everyone's game from time to time or they could honestly just be shitty plays on your part.  Hand histories at least give you some feedback.  Post in here or in the 2020 thread when it starts because I've learned from posts from TXSooner or Lurch in terms of how they view particular hands/plays and they both play differently at times.  The goal is that we all make each other better players.  We've all made shitty plays that in retrospect or in a discussion were total fuck ups.   It's how we learn.

I know Lurch addressed this somewhat on the previous page, but I want to dig a little deeper on the hand history.  How do some of you record your hand histories with such accuracy while playing? Looking for some techniques so I can come back with actual data rather than generalities.

 

Also, what are the best apps to track sessions, bankroll, etc?

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I use the app Poker Income to track sessions, but need to better capture actual hand history. The app has a notes section, but assume just using Notes app of your phone works just as well.

Lock this thread up. Responded in 2020

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