November Thread: Goals, Winrates, Updates

[JDMcNugent7]

TP if I were you I would start playing 2/4 and rebuild and get your confidence back.
I cbet alot just like you, but I do change my sizes up alot, (1/2 - full pot) with 2/3 being the norm.
I think you could def. vary your play more, seems like its a little too mechanical right now, and you def. can check behind a few flops, you don't have to try to win every hand.
I know you know most of this but just keep it in mind, and vary your play more, also playing 2/4 for awhile would prob be a good idea.

[Talking Poker]

Good advice, and much appreciated.

About my play being mechanical, to an extent you are right... and I think that's because it had worked so well for so many hands, so I figured why change it? Just play through the variance, ya know? But variance doesn't account for 100% of my struggles recently, so a change would probably be a good idea. Moving down to 2/4 is going to feel weird, I'm sure... but I think you're right - it's the best move for me for a while. Plus, it will give me new material for my next video.

[Talking Poker]

So I decided to play some 2/4 NL tonight. At first, it felt weird with such small bet amounts compared to what I've gotten used to. I was even thinking "Man, it's going to take me forever to get unstuck what I'm stuck this month playing at these limits," but that is a REALLY stupid way to think about things. You can NOT think like that. My move down to 2/4 is a necessary one for me right now.

Anyway, the first thing I noticed is how much different the PT numbers for my opponents were... There were a LOT less really good players and a LOT more really bad ones. It seemed like there were 4 times as many "good" tables than I'm used to seeing.

I got off to a good start and was even getting "lucky" - By lucky, I mean that when I got all it in preflop with AA vs. KK, my AA somehow managed to win. Complete craziness, I tell you...

I got up about 1300 at my peak, and was really feeling my confidence come back (it's amazing what one good session can do for you after a bad losing streak), and then the usual bullshit started kicking in. The kicker was when I got it all in on the flop with top two vs what I was 100% sure was an overpair, and sure enough, the board paired the third flop card and *poof* $800 pot gone.

I'm just finishing up now... really having trouble leaving this one table because this dude wants to give me his stack SO BADLY... Anyway, looks like my final tally has me up a litte more then $100 for the night. Seems silly, but it sure beats the hell out of losing 2 or 3 or 4 thousand, like I have been recently.

Here is my fun graph for the night (I'd color on it , but I'm just not that talented). That sharp drop in the middle was the top two hand I mentioned. If my hand held up there, that line would be going UP instead of down and TWICE as far. I would have finished up $1000 for the night. Oh well.