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these position stats are nuts.. my $$ is coming from unusual places.. button not working out too well. only 13k stats though

Wow, those position stats look really weird to me. They seem to be just backwards of what someone would consider 'normal.' Mike Caro would probably say you're doing something wrong (remember his famous quote: "If God were looking down on a poker table, he'd see the money flowing toward the button"). On the otherhand, it's tough to argue with your results. Weird.

FWIW, my own position stats for both ring and tourneys are heavily biased toward the button and then fall off the earlier I get-- right up to the point where I lose money in the BB and SB. My poker mentor says that it's the stats of a normal winning player. His own stats (couple hundred thousand hands) are very similar.

Can someone explain to me what's going on with Terry and why he's winning?
-Mark "...acknowledged newbie..."

The graph is sick!! Nice run man, keep it up!

terry, i will be taking my life soon if you don't hit a downswing lol.

Terry,

My stats are almost identical e.g. VPIP, PFR, c/bets, att to steal blinds etc. but my winrate is far lower than yours.

What do you think I could do to improve my winrate? Push or overbet the pot every time I believe I am ahead? I know this is not a Q&A but maybe I am missing something very obvious from my game?

P.S. And YES, I do believe that you should move up limits!

terry, do you bet your draws as heavy as your made hands?

up 4.5 buyins today. still at 100NL clearing the monster 500$ 10x Bonus at PokerRoom. pretty crazy day, hitting a lot of gutshots and backdoor flushes. ran 24/10 (ugh). flopped a ton of straights, had a couple all in nut str8s with rivered fh, that happens though. i have 1550$ in PokerRoom right now, once i get that to 2k ill move up to 200NL for a test run. played a bit slaggy today.

i also played a cheap 5$ sit n go home game with some classmates. was quite fun. i played almost every flop and worked on my hand reading. the guys werent too bad of players at all.. had a lot of fun and made poker fresh again for me. it was getting a bit stale this afternoon. i have to keep myself thinking/engaged in every hand. it helps my reads, lets my subconscious work. if im passive and thinking about something else, my edge is gone and my play is -ev.

i hate you with a passion Terry... Smile

i nominate terry for president

wait till you go a whole month without winning

watched the WSOP and was pumped to play the party Bonus, but once the adrenaline wore off i crashed mentally. not enough sleep lately. ended down 1.5 buyins.

i did add up my yearly total. its crazy how i was so pumped about 45$ in the first few months.

+15k for the year, most of which has come in the last 6 weeks.

Welp nothing tilts me like a bad internet connection.

I donked off a couple of stacks vs real loose players. Also pushed all in KK vs AA, got sucked out all in on flop KKQ when i had AK. Definitely hitting a bit of a downswing, down 4 or 5 buyins in the last couple of days. Having pokeracehud and PokerTracker problems, wife out of town, behind on deadlines.. ugh.. i need to take some time off from poker at this point. Im basically even for the last 4 days, which is somethign im not quite used to heh.

Ill make sure to post the tilty hands so i can go over them and be accountable. I tend to play better when I keep everyone updated and also spend more time posting HHs, talking about hands. Otherwise im just playing on autopilot, which is -ev.

here ya go, tell me what you think of these hands, and how i should have played them.
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=44180&highlight=

hey guys

i hit my head 2 days ago at work, most of these hands were since then. i have had some weird feelings/neurological symptoms and went to the ER. Head CT was normal, doctor diagnosed me with a concussion, so my brain is bruised/swollen. So playing idiot hands like this is a symptom of it. Im taking a few days off till i start thinking 100% again.

seriously.

but ill be ok, and should be back to normal in a few days. never had a concussion before. anyone have this before?

WORST EXCUSE EVER. It's ok to play some hands badly, everyone does it, even people on redonkulous 200 buy-in upswings. You don't have to go get a CT scan after every bad session Smile

Seriously though, take care of yourself, and you'll be back killing 100NL in no time.

welp its been fun.

im cashing out until the dust settles. yeah i could continue to play for a while but my heart just isnt in it right now. i dont want to risk my earnings. the current 500$ Bonus at PokerRoom doesnt expire till around thanksgiving. so i have plenty of time later to play.

well, posted my current thoughts about whats after poker here:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=404247#404247

i was pretty upset last night, but im ok today. i had a bad feeling that this would happen months ago, so its not too much of a shock..

now that things are taking shape, i was thinkin about restarting at Full Tilt with Rakeback. they have a lot of advertizing so perhaps they will get a lot of fish in. my favorite sites are all closing their doors (hollywood, PokerRoom, party, Empire, Paradise)

not sure what is going to happen next, but poker is definitely a unique pastime, my friends are playing WoW, and i cant get in to that.

so i might get 1k back into my neteller and then into FullTilt to start a new adventure at 50NL. i havent played in 2 weeks so im sure im a bit rusty, plus it might take a while getting used to Full Tilt.

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