Operation: 'A' game

Haha awesome, keep owning the PLO wingster!

Long sessions and Losing:

I always play long sessions when I'm losing. Though, there should be a disclaimer that there are two types of losing sessions. The first is the type where you go on this crazy run of EV run bad where you lose 4 flips in 100 hands. Then you get all-in AK vs AA and KK vs AA and you're down 6 buyins. That type of session I try to quit pretty fast in general, even though I've played well overall. Those sessions tilt me more than most, and end up with more spewing.

The second type of losing session is like the one I played last night. I was bluffing like madness. Triple barreling people and getting called with air. Triple barreling people by overbetting turns or overbetting rivers and getting called by the nuts or getting jammed on and folding. One of those "how to ruin your image in 20mins" types of sessions. These are the sessions I end up playing for a while.

I seem to think that the money I have lost is an investment. I invested X buyins to ruin my image and it would be a waste of an investment to leave the table now. So I usually stick around for as long as I can to win it back. Now every value bet after this point is an overbet until they call and lose at showdown.

I'm mostly just rambling, but the point is that I think its reasonable to keep playing in a losing session when you've lost money by ruining your image. This is assuming that you're still thinking sensibly and not tilting. This is assuming that you can be putting people on the appropriate levels in the right spots. I think its reasonable to view the lost money as an investment, and keep playing to take advantage of that fact. Maybe people disagree though?