sevens

I’ve been playing much better recently but I still have been unable to get out of this run-bad. My game had taken a gradual shift towards bad play, especially playing OOP pots, and I’ve recently been working to correct that. I do silly stuff like cb TPTK, get called on a dry board, and then c/f the turn because I fear the nit has a set. I need to stop giving up so easily…and stop trying to “lose the minimum” when OOP. I think it’s just inevitable that I’ll lose more when OOP, and I have to face that. I need to b/f more and not c/f because I think I’m losing value.

Also with this downswing, I’ve had an increasing emotional attachments to hands. Like…if I lose a hand, instead of thinking, “Oh well, I lost the minimum,” I think, “;galksjdf;lakjs;lrej TT < JJ yet AGAIN, wtf!” I need to look into why this is and do something about it. Last night I did something that helped, and I’ll give the set up story to it. So Full Tilt now offers .01/.02 and .02/.05 tables. A bunch of us on 2+2 all sat on a 2NL 6-max table and flipped for about a half hour. If you don’t know, flipping is where everyone shoves all in preflop with every hand. It wasn’t a big deal because worst case scenario, you lose 10 or 20 buyins and it doesn’t really affect your roll at all. Well, I was the big winner of the night, having a $117 stack at one point. So last night, while playing on Stars, I went to a $2NL table on FT and just shoved all in preflop for like 15 minutes. It kept me from getting too emotionally involved on my tables at Stars, and it let me blow off some steam. After I was done flipping (seriously that gets boring after a while), I checked my Stars account and noticed I was up like 1/2 a buyin just from grinding out and playing optimal poker. I got my head out of the game and let instinct take over…I wasn’t emotional and it payed off. So I need to figure out a way, other than flipping, to do this regularly. Or just look into why I my anger trigger is set off so easily.

Oh well….still on track to hit Platinum this month….plz to be hitting combo draws one time ok??

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