Anyway, general flow of things update.

Downswing currently looks like this, pretty funny graph if you ask me.


Been grinding 1/2 and and .5/1 for about 25k hands now breakeven. Whatever hand I have, the flop, turn and river cards will be the worst ones in the deck for my hand. Whatever cards the villain needs will come no matter how small or big the pot or how strong my hand used to be. I struggle onwards.

I think I have a problem with my Went to SD % which may be causing my redline problems ( just fyi the redline you see in the above graph is ridiculous even for me and is unrepresentative of my normal game. Regardless of what I used to think I knew about poker I can promise you I'm not THAT bad in the long haul). My WtSD is only 23% over this years sample which may mean I'm getting bluffed a lot and folding too weakly. This could amount to a rather large problem since I play 27/23/3 with an 8% 3bet. As you can imagine, folding too much when played back at could cause some issues. Problem is I couldn't even begin to think how to solve this problem since doing so would involve me starting to stack off in all sorts of unfamiliar circumstances and trying to introduce that sort of stuff into your game is playing with fire. It's a lead all the same and I'll keep it in mind over the coming weeks.

I'm considering taking a break again. I'm reluctant though since I really feel that I'm not playing drastically terrible. I'm not playing my A game all day that's for sure, you only need to look at the hands I've posted to know that but I feel that I'm playing so low that even my C game should win. It doesn't of course. Also I've taken numerous breaks since this swing started and it's definitely feeling like if I keep taking breaks I'll be breakeven for the rest of the year. That doesn't really fit in with my plans for a 120k year. Things were looking so rosy around June when I was on track for like 200k, I guess I may forget about that!

One of the few silver linings on all this is that I am more motivated now to get better than I was when I was running really well, fuck knows why. I'm trying pretty hard which is good. Hopefully when I bounce back (if ever) I'll be a more capable player.

Jesus what a forlorn bastard I've become.