Nice title imo.....had another weird day at the poker tables - broke even on 1400 hands of 4t Nl50.
Im not too stressed. One the one hand if I do stress it doesnt change much, on the other with my twin rakebacks coming in the next 7 days my br will be back to its original 1100 amount...this will leave me about 6 other days counting the 6 next ones to get a few more bucks for my monthly withdrawal.
Jason has coached me like a champion........ever cooked? Letsay your making a recipe...but it does not taste exactly like you want it to - there is something missing.
In this context the missing haHA ingredient would be super important for the cook, but to a random observer it would be nothing more then a raw piece of the puzzle...like "garlic" or "carrots".
This is what happened while I was being coached this weekend.....to the casual observer the question "does he call the flop with XYZ and play the river that way" might sound like the most mundane poker sentence...but to me, it explainned the last 15 hands I did not get in about one second...it all made sense.
During my session today I was able to make some pretty sick hero calls with second pair type hands, and I was able to rightly(i believe) fold good but not strong enough hands. I will however give credit to my competition, sometimes I knew I could not call a strong bet on the river to be faced with a ridiculous bet that I had to call......it was like they knew my hand and knew I could not call a big bet - or they suck at bet sizing and this is a std bet for them.
Nl20 used to be, 5-6 month ago - the bane of my existence, I could manage 3-4 PTBB and had huge swings......now I run at 5-6 ptbb(12 bb) and I dont feel like I even have to think about anything while I play. I sure hope 3-4 months from now I will feel the same way about Nl50.
I have changed my hand posting site from 2p2 to deucescracked....and I have 2 new poker video sites to check out. I really look forward to the changes my game will go through, and how it will affect my win rate.
The title is slippery ladder, I find it fits my present situation...on about 23k hands im running at a whopping 1.5 bb/100 hands at NL50...the first 15k hands were at about 6-7bb and I thought I was on the right track and nothing could go wrong.....now I am still struggling to get back to the br I had when I started playing poker again after uni finished a week and a half ago.
It just "feels" like im climbing up but it doesnt feel solid. On the other hand were not talking about the life crush swings of 18 or 21 buy ins I have had the luck of experiencing in the past...if I got over them - ill get over whatever I need to now.
I might feel this way and that way, but I always make sure my actions direct me in the right direction....no matter how hopeless I feel, I will reach NL200 by the end of 2009. thats it thats all.
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