Honeymoon's over!

Before it has begun it feels

Yesterday mornings first significant loss was followed by session 9 during the very average England game, leaving me a further $21 down!!

Hmmm, now I need to work out why: I'd like to think variance (This is what everyone cries about when they start to lose, of course) Personally I think ever so slightly my game and mentality has changed, due to my early success, I have been playing arrogantly and not respecting my opponents enough. So they were a donk in one hand, this doesn't mean they haven't picked a monster up in the next!!

JJ x 3 AiP v's KK, AA, AA. All of which I should have got away from pre, I'm calling off or in one case five bet shoving my stack hoping to see AK or an unlikley underpair, I have to stop this. Other horrible plays calling a three bet pre with AJ then hitting the J and stacking off v's QQ, in a similar situ I three bet from SB with AJo following a button raise, get a pause and flat call, J high flop and get b/c'd to the river where my bet there gets shoved over, do I fold my TPTK? Na course not, I call off my remaining $8 to see QQ. SPEWTARD!!! This in other formats I get away from easily. I'm not giving people enough credit for hands simple as that. In other spots I'm getting to involved with top pair average kicker and being out kicked. I shouldn't be in the hand to start with!!!!

At these stakes big bets really do mean 95% of the time that the villan has the goods. I was being cold decked to a degree, I mean were 6 or 5 handed and these hands are up against other monsters. The only time I got it AiP ahead was QQ v AKo 9 hi flop looked good but the A and the K on 4th and 5th str, put pay to another stack. So standard and shouldn't bother me, yet due to running/playing bad, these type of hands start making you believe the poker deities are really not on your side lol. To compound it I was dealt AA three times, two of which my standard x3 pre raise took the blinds (Probably 2 of 5 times all night my raise was respected) and the 3rd time I three bet an UTG raiser who folds for a $0.45 return :o) . . . . . lol.

I know all you players out there are thinking how standard this is and get used to it, but in one or two games it's frustrating, yet when you're being constantly out drawn, or cold decked on 4 of your 6 tarbs it's downright heartbreaking!!! The positive is apart from a KK v 55 rivered set, I didn't get any bad beats that I can remember. Apart from the odd flush hitting when villans completely priced out. So the problems I'm facing I can deal with by adjusting my own play and mind set.

Plus point,

Session 9 during 1st half of the England match = - $21 (1hr)

Session 10 = + $10.50 (1.5hr)

profit/loss 9-10 = - $10.50
profit/loss total= + $167.50
per hour (16) = $10.45

. . . . from 22.30 to midnight. This second session of the evening, was hard work as I was trying to adjust due to what had already occurred in the previous session. As such I think I may have missed good re-steal spots and some value as I nitted up a little, but my goal was a achieved in turning it around. By the end I logged off alot happier and a little humbled really by stakes I had previously not overly respected.

Need: Tracking software, HUD, training video's, 6 max cash game literature!!

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