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5NL all over again
OK I guess this is my first time posting in the operationsection. I think this will help me to put my thoughts straight. Maybe this would be better for the tiltsection, but I really don't wanna be one of the tilt-losers so I'll keep the whining to the absolute minimum.
So this is what happened: after playing 5NL for about 40K hands I finally beat it. That's probably a slow grind for the micros, but I really didn't care. I was learning and as long as I was making some money on the way I was content. Now that I look back it surprises me that I was even making money.
The first quarter of those hands I played absolutely horrible thinking very level 1: Me haz TP Me call shove! I slowly began getting some basic postflop play throught watching alot of spenda's vids, constanly pausing, asking myself what I would do and then checking out if I was 'right'.
Around the third quarter of the way I suddenly got a strange feeling that I should think about ranges while playing. It was as if some good player was repeately saying it in some way.. Sure I knew about ranges, but I figured: 'that's some of that advanced stuff for later', but when I really started using it I realized what a complete moron you are if you think you're playing poker if you're not thinking about ranges.
I started thinking about ranges more, posting hands I was having problems with and just tried to study hard. I made it to 10NL and just kept on thinking about the game. I'm not saying I was being Da Pokergod or anything cause i'm clearly not. I still make alot of stupid mistakes, but I know they're mistakes and try to stop making them. Just to show I definitely made progress: when I tried the same thing with other spenda vids I hadn't seen, I scored pretty good.
Anyway Like you already guessed: I started running pretty bad, with pretty being being an eufemism for 'like a bag of crap'.I really really got tilted when I had to drop back to 5NL and continued to run bad. Normally I think I don't tilt that fast, but since I dropped down I got on übertilt and started spewing alot.
I do however know I can beat it and I'm sure as hell not gonna give up. And if I can't do it.. well I can always kill myself
So here I go again, wish me luck
Vince
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