Operation: Switch from 6-max to FR

bump for update!

Thanks for your interest PlayToWin.

Still slowly grinding up. Had a bit of a downswing but I recovered all of it and then some.

In about 155fpps I should get my $50 bonus and in about 15 fpps I should get the $10 other bonus (can't remember what it's called)

BR is at about $560 and I'm up about 12.5 BIs for March.

I stopped playing every day like i was before. I try not to play when I'm too tired. If I didn't play when I was tired I would play maybe twice a week so I've got a benchmark for too tired.
-If I don't play will I fall asleep within 30 minutes while watching tv?

I'm playing on average about every other day. I've starting lifting weights again and the weather and time change are allowing me to play golf more.

I'm also trying not to look at HEM/cashier very often and just playing. Being over rolled helps alot with this.

Something else that's helping is to not watching the showdown progression when shoving pf against shortys as I was tilting when my TP hands were getting coolered. I go back and look once the hand is complete and note what villian was shoving/calling shove with.

I'm also getting used to breaking even for a session or only being up or down $1 or $2. At 6max it was usually at least a BI.

I could actually close this OP as I have fully switched to FR but I'll keep updating it until I move up to 25NL. Hopefully this won't take too long but if it does then so be it.

I'm also looking forward to playing in the BC HU tourney starting in the next few days. Good luck to me

FML

Last night was the worst night I have ever had playing. Every time (and I mean every time) I got AK, QQ+ against shortys I lost to some shit rag hand. I've been trying not to look at results or cashier until after the session was over. I've got auto reload on so I guess I lost track because I did win a few big pots. When all was done I was down almost 10 BIs which has totally screwed up the month of March. When I looked at the biggest losers they were all against shortys with 20bb or less and I lost alot of them. Maybe that's why I lost track of them because it was like "Oh well, only $2. No biggie"

FML and FML

Ya, in poker, momma definitely said there'd be days like this.

I am a little confused though. To lose 10 buy-ins strictly from 20bb short stacks, you'd have to lose 50 times. That's a heck of a lot of times to lose in one session, let alone as a favorite in most or all of them. There had to be something else going on. I think it's great you're not looking @ results in the short-term like after the money gets in, but a couple of things about that. I think in-game review and reflection is an important process, so while you may not immediately see what happens or learn from it, you probably don't want to completely ignore it or you could just keep doing the same, bad, wrong thing over and over. You need to be looking to see what they shoved with or called your shove with so you can define their range.

Making adjustments in poker is very important. Also, you HAVE to be cognizant of your balance to a degree - at least enough so you don't exceed your daily stop loss. I know it can be tough because if you watch it too close, you can tilt to results oriented thinking, BUT you can't go the other extreme and turn around and be down 10 buy-ins and not even know it. We have a stop loss because MOST of the time when we hit it, we aren't playing our best, no matter what justification we use to refute otherwise like "I was getting it in good". That stop loss is a tilt stopper.

Remember, the object of the game is to (1) play good poker, (2) Minimize tilt, (3) Practice good bankroll management, and (4) Play enough hands so that the benefits of (1), (2), and (3) come to fruition. You can never do # 4 in one day or session. It sounds like you didn't do #3 either ... and I SUSPECT #1 and/or #2 came into play as well at least once, if not several times.

All you can do is just learn from that session and vow to NEVER break #3 bankroll management again. To be able to safely lose 10 buy-ins in one day, you'd have to have 200 buy-ins or $2000 @ 10NL. Before you ever start playing, do one of 2 things: note your balance, multiply by .05, subtract that from your original balance. Check your balance every so often if you feel you've been losing - more frequently if you get stacked or lose several all-ins to shorties. When it hits that #, stop playing. Or, what I do, is take my bankroll, multiply it by .05 and check my results every so often in the HEM sessions tab. It will tell you profit or loss to the penny. I'm sure PT3 has something similar.

Anyway, good luck rebounding and getting the train back on track.

Yea, whatever. I'm sick of this shit. No matter what I do it's always they same shit. I try to play tight and agressive and the same shit always happens with the calling stations and coolers and suckouts.

Then you come here and get some help and all I get is crap like play good poker, use good BRM, don't tilt and a bunch of other BS that doesn't mean anything when I lose most of my BR on a regular basis. When I try to play more hands as you suggested, things just go from bad to worse. Thanks alot. You're a big help. Tell me something that I really can do to help. I know you're going to give me a bunch of crap about ranges, pot odds, and a bunch of other crap that I've heard over and over but it doesn't help.

Jason, do me a favor and let someone else give me some advice for a change.