Keeping Warm in Winter

[AAroddersAA]

Steve, where are you playing your cash games online at the moment ?

Sky Poker

[Chipaccrual]

Steve, where are you playing your cash games online at the moment ?

Sky Poker

Good choice.  

[AAroddersAA]

Not that great yesterday. Played a load of hands but ended up £13 down. Not terrible in itself obviously but there were a few hands that I was unhappy with how I played:-

First one I have AQ on the cut off and raise it up to 80p. I get one caller and the flop comes down -8h-6h. It checks to me and I obviously think I have the best hand but there are a few draws out so I bet £1.25 into the pot and get min raised. This is a draw as often as not and he could also have a worse ace. I raise it up to £7 and he shoves. It"s about £11 more to me. Going back over the hand thedraw is not unlikely and it is starting to look a lot like a set. There are weaker aces in his range but I am not sure I have the odds against his range here realistically. I call and he shows AK. I possibly lose at least £11 that I don"t need to here, getting all in with AQ on this flop is not really very good.

I later got 10-10 in a blind on blind situation. I raise it up to 80p and get a caller. The flop comes J-7-2 and I bet out and get called. The turn is a 5 so I bet again and get called. The river is a 3 and I check it to him expecting him to check any jack here. He bets ouit £5 which does not make sense to me that the time. I call and he shows J-8. Guilty of overthinking the hand here.

So that is at least £16 that I lose that I should not have, this is actually not that bad considering the amount of hands I played but still annoying. I don"t like not being able to use Poker Tracker to go through my hands and look back over them. I would like to know what my EV was yesterday as I feel as though I was playing a +EV game but got a bit unlucky a few times.

Will take a day off online poker today, might go and play live later.

Online cash for 2011 is now a total loss of £56.42

[AAroddersAA]

Swansea is full of football fans, the welsh derby finished with Cardiif beating Swansea 1-0 FML.

Neither of these sides have ever done the double but after the win at Cardiff City Stadium ealier this year along with Cardiffs form this season (inconsistent) I was quite confident of a Swansea win. I don"t actually support Swansea, I just live here but it would be good to have team like Chelsea and Arsenal visiting next year (and of course would probably mean no promotion for Cardiff). Swansea should make the play offs and a play off final Vs Cardiff would be interesting.

Currently watching Chelsea Vs Liverpool. A win for Chelsea here would give the table a whole different look after Aresnal and Man Utd slipped up yesterday.

[AAroddersAA]

Sigh.

OK, I just got back from the casino, didn"t go so well and I played like an idiot. To be honest I did not even feel like going tonight but went anyway.

One of my first hands I get it all in wth pocket jacks and lose to AQ. So lose a buyin. I then manage to get it back when I get an overpair to a 7 high flop and his straight draw misses. So then I was slightly up. So then I decide it is time to give these live donks a lesson in poker and show then how they do not belong on the same table as me. Sure enough next hand, along comes J-10. OK I think I will just outplay the table here. I call a raise and the flop comes down 2-2-J. Oh good. The original raiser makes a pot sized bet, somewhere in my barin and alrm bell rings but I turn it off, I am going to out play him. I make a raise and he calls. the turn is something that does not change anything and he shoves I call, he has QQ. That hand costs me over £100. I end up £167 down, There was no excuse to be down at all in that game.

I am pretty disappointed with myself but probably not as much as I should be. Driving back, I was unhappy but my confidence is just about still there. I am not sure why, as I have not been playing well at all since about mid November and if it continues, at some time I think I have to accept I am probably not the player I currently think I am, although those thoughts are starting to enter my head, I am not prepared to accept it yet. From about May to November last year I was playing good poker, I must still know how. The worrying thing for me is that I am all too often doing the wrong thing when I know it is wrong, but doing it anyway. I can"t go and post on a forum about how to stop doing this as it is very simple, you should just be making the right move. I know this, I just keep not doing it.

Cash
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Live Poker = +£101 (2 sessions)
Online poker = -£56.42

Tournaments
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Live Tournaments = -£125 (2 Tournaments)
Online Tournaments = +£13 (5 Tournaments)

Overall = -£67.42

[samuel_9]

i mite be roung but it looks like your just a little bit tilty.TRY changeing your game a little bit . MYSELF well i was tilted for about 2years without realiseing it..SO what i did was have a good look at how i was playing and especially the cards  i was playing.So i went back 2 the way i used 2 play . SO yesterday i entered 3 tourneys small rebys first 1 $2 reby did not reby did not addon provit $38 number2....... $5 reby no reby or addon provit $106.3trd1  10.000garentied $5 reby no reby noaddon provit$129. then i went on the cash put in £30 i hour provit £55.00 now im goin to keep  paying my old game and try not 2go fishing 2much and just take what ever bad beat i get cos at the en of the day there is dam all you can do about it....... just someting for you 2 think over glk   all APATERS

[samuel_9]

now going to watch my show the sons of arnacey very very good show just finished season 1 now on season 2 very very good show

[AAroddersAA]

Lost £50 on Sky today. Did not get unlucky, no bad beats or coolers worth mentioning.

I think I need a break from poker, since the start of the weekend I have lost £267 in games where I should be in profit and with hands that should put me in profit. Not going to type up and review the hands at the moment as there are just too many mistakes and I can"t really justify any of it.

Don"t know what I am going to do about it or if there is anything I can do about it, the annoying thing is somewhere in my brain I know that I am playing badly, I know why I am playing badly but when it comes to the time in a hand where I should do the right thing and fold down the hand I am not doing so. I have lost £40 today for example by shoving AK preflop in poor spots to be doing so. I knew at the time it was a bad spot but did it anyway. I currently see no way to turn this around though, if I was making mistakes due to not understanding certain situations then it would be one thing but that is not happening, I know I am making a mistake at the exact time I make the mistake and do it anyway.

Online cash now = -£107.07
Overall = -£115

Been on a bit of a poker roller coaster over the last 6-9 months. I remember having a pretty bad run in June/July time to the stage where I was wondering if it was all worth it. The best six months of my poker life followed but after, what was definately a period of serious over achievement, I am pretty much back to where I was (which was fine at the time), but now don"t want to accept it (although I have always known it in the back of my mind).

Will take a break for a few days and see what happens after that.

[duke3016]

Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)

[samuel_9]

Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)

take the advice mr AAroddersAA

[MintTrav]

Jesus man, relax. How many thousands did you win last year? Do you think you go from getting back-to-back HU in two tournaments with 400 & 200 runners to being a poor player just like that? Take a break to get your focus if you wish, or else don"t. But don"t come on here pretending you"ve turned rubbish when we know better.

[AAroddersAA]

Jesus man, relax. How many thousands did you win last year? Do you think you go from getting back-to-back HU in two tournaments with 400 & 200 runners to being a poor player just like that? Take a break to get your focus if you wish, or else don"t. But don"t come on here pretending you"ve turned rubbish when we know better.

Obviously my above post was written slightly on tilt *lol*

To be honest its not that much about the money (although that is always nice). At the end of the day I am only £100 down anyway. Last year in total was just over £10K btw  :-)

It"s the fact I am playing badly. I"m not pretending I"ve turned rubbish, but I am playing rubbish at the moment (there is a difference). It would actually be easier if I had turned rubbish but it"s the fact I am (usually) not rubbish which is so annoying. I am supposed to do better - hmm I guess nobody has any right to win though

I am actually not playing that badly in tournaments, I am having problems in cash games, which is totally back to front to how I usually do.

Probably will switch to tournaments for a while after taking a break just to give my cash game a chance to recharge (not too sure why that should work either but it seems to).

Someone much cleverer than me once said.

"If you think you are behind, you probably are"

Don"t force it , breathe etc (ha ha at me giving that advice)

Might write that down and stick it on my monitor.

[pables]

I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!

Go back to what you were doing when Ben pwned you at DTD   and you wont be a million miles off!

See you soon Rodders  

[Fatcatstu]

I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!

in all seriousness mate, THIS!!!

It  is something i discovered about myself, and i am now (hopfully) on the way to rectifying it (not being so insanely aggressive!!)

just have a good think about things pal

[pokerpops]

I don"t think you"re playing badly, I think your game has changed!

in all seriousness mate, THIS!!!

It  is something i discovered about myself, and i am now (hopfully) on the way to rectifying it (not being so insanely aggressive!!)

just have a good think about things pal

You"re not alone Rodders, but the issue is not about being too aggressive per se, it"s about picking the right moments to be aggressive, and the moments to shut down because you know that whatever you bet some players won"t/can"t fold TPTK on a board no matter how obvious the straight or flush potential.