A DOG'S LIFE

[tikay]

Fascinating stuff!

[ifm]

mmmmmm, icecream

[yt]

mmmmmmmmmmm £2846 profit

[TheJagster]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  profit and ice cream.

Great first mointh snoops       and a great thread....Second month.....cant wait!!!

Best of Luck m8

[SuffolkPunch]

Many congrats Snoop - a great first month and excellent writing too.

[snoopy1239]

Many thanks for all the comments.

I'm not counting my chickens just yet though.

Sry to hear you had a bad day RED. Hope you're not too downhearted.

I'll answer Harlemshuffle's question on family/friend repsonse in the near future...

... so watch this space.

[RED-DOG]

Sry to hear you had a bad day RED. Hope you're not too downhearted.

My turn for the custard pie

[snoopy1239]

Encountered another bad session today.

Played for about 1hr 40 mins and lost $428.28

Looking back through Poker Tracker, I don't believe I made many errors, so I shall put it down to a bad run of cards. I missed 2 flush draws when I was pot committed in multiway pots. On another day, those draws bring home the bacon and I'm reporting of a tidy win.

I don't mind losing a session as long as i played well and didn't tilt. On this occasion I feel as though there are many positives I can take away with me.

(i) I quit rather than try to recuperate the loss
(ii) I didn't tilt
(iii) I didn't move up to the higher stake games

Also, I learnt a few things about my game.

(i) I raise raggedy aces preflop too frequently. I don't mind pushing them once in a while, but too often is dangerous as they rarely scoop a big pot.
(ii) I've been getting greedy. Making big raises on the river with monsters when I know my opponents are weak. If I stopped to think, the value bet would be much more profitable in the long-run.
(iii) Sometimes I call a raise with a pocket pair hoping to bust a big stack, then I realise my opponent is short stacked. By then, it's too late, error made.


Also, today I played 1 table of $1/2 Omaha High Low. Whilst not being the greatest player in the world, I like to think my game is relatively strong. Plus, it keeps things fresh. Could go mad playing Texas all year.

Anyway, pretty much broke even on the High Low. There was a fish sitting at the table who was trying desperately hard to give away his money. Twice he fluked a split pot on me.

One hand I was dealt . Flop came Ahrts . Not too bad for little me. I bet and he called. Turn came giving me the nut flush and a full house draw. I bet the pot again. He called. River was the . I moved all-in and he called in a flash.

Hands were revealed, I showed my nuts for the high, whilst he flipped over for the low.

Bah. Humbug! Can be a frustrating game sometimes.

[Karabiner]

Nice first month Soopyn 

[snoopy1239]

ROCK BOTTOM


In keeping with catching my emotions as they happen, I’m writing now after just suffering a severe blow online. Up until this week, I’d yet to encounter a losing day, but now I’ve stumbled across 3 at once. I currently feel ashamed, angry, and disappointed. I can take losing money, but when it’s my own fault, I find it unacceptable. Usually I walk away from the laptop and forget about it within minutes, but this time, I’ve been beating myself up about it. Perhaps it’s because it’s my living now, maybe it’s because it was my 3rd consecutive loss, I could just be tired, who knows? Either way, I feel absolutely gutted.

All that hard work from the previous month, all that good play, all that resistance to tilting. Then I go and  blow it all by playing like an idiot. For the first time in a long long time, I tilted. I didn’t just blow off a little steam, I raised the bar to the highest level of tiltness. Firstly, I started reaising preflop with rubbish in order to create action. I created action all right, but none of it was beneficial to my stack. Then every time I missed a flop, I tried a bluff, which always went pear shaped. If I actually hit something, I always seemed to be reraised by a hand which I knew was better than mine. But did I have the sense to release? Oh no, I refused to lay it down. I hit top pair with my AK, I know the reraiser has trips, so why on earth do I carry on playing the hand?! I even had a conversation with myself about how I should be laying the hand down, but I still didn’t listen. To make matters worse, I spread my titling over the four tables I was playing. I was doing all right on some of them, but I let my bad fortune on other tables effect my game across the whole board. Then, to tip it all off, I start racking off my chips. Instead of just taking my small stack and leaving the table, I looked for spots to gamble. All were stupid gambles, and all were deservedly punished. Sometimes, I make myself so mad it’s unbelievable.

I’m just not sure what’s wrong with me at the moment. I never ever tilt like this, so why now? Okay, I can honestly say that today I received the worst run of luck I have encountered in 4 years of online play. However, that doesn’t automatically mean that I should go on complete tilt and throw my remaining chips away. I’m full time now, if I do it again, I guarantee that I’ll give it all up and get myself my job. It’s that simple, what more motivation do I need?

Right, enough of the ranting. As you can clearly gather, I’m still furious with myself. Time to get a grip now. These things happen, nobody’s perfect. I thought I had tilting under complete control, but obviously I was wrong. I need a break, I won’t play till after Christmas, perhaps in about a week. In that time I will gather my thoughts and look back at some of the decisions I made. I was obviously fatigued, so I will sleep more and get myself into shape. Healthy body is a healthy mind, and I’ve ignored this recently. I just haven’t been thinking straight. Also, I’ll read some poker books to keep my brain active. Maybe watch some poker on tv, anything to keep me occupied.

Bottom line. Today I hit rock bottom, so the only way is up. I messed up, it won’t happened again, and if it does, I’m quitting.

[Colchester Kev]

see you in the blonde comp on crypto tonight then spoony

[redsimon]

If the O8 hand you reported is typical it sounds like you need to hit the PLO8 tables for a bit

[The Nomad]

Hi Snoopy, just caught up on your thread .Its run for ages till the inevitable happened.    I think you will find many important lessons here .You have pointed out the most obvious so you know where you are going wrong. that is good . Try to think how much you would of saved if you had not thrown away your small stacks add this up and deduct it from your total loss. If you were playing 4 at a time it may be a largish sum.So take this out of your game, and you have an instant profit.        Now to something a little more obscure. With this theory I am speaking from thousands of hours experience,its not a theory as such but something I have come across more times than I want to remember.                               Often when on a roll things are going great ,playing well, hardly any mistakes, and of course some substantial wins and no losses, then one day you go deep in the hole ,but you are playing well and you claw your way back out and after 20 hours show a reasonable profit.   I cannot explain it but the next session you get slaughtered nothing improves you get outdrawn every possible dog on the table wants to use you in a sexual manner. So what has happened, I dont actually know the answer, to that.I seem to remember that this had happened to you a few days before. So what can you do . Now the problem when your working is a little different to the problem the recreational player has he can take a holiday you have been at it for a short while and you need money coming in so apart from a couple of days of to lick your wounds what do you do. I find a change of venue and or medium to be the only way and sometimes have even  gone to the lenghts of changing countries.      Now this is all closing the stable door after the horse has bolted so to speak. I have always foud it hard to stop playing after 10 /15 straight wins,who wouldnt, but I do recognise that the big get out,is an alarm call and it is one which I now heed. This might seem like mumbo jumbo but it gives me time to calm down because when you are on a 15 break you are flying. Now does it stop you getting killed next time you walk in the joint well the juries still out on thatone.     What it does do is slow you down, starting from fresh if you like,so no more getting involved with crap when your aces dont improve to two pair in stud you can let go orthe flop must have put you 3rd bye bye  you are back to playing how you know you should be . So you take a loss but its not a biggie,eventually the form will return and your off again.Have a happy and prosperous new year LOL

[snoopy1239]

Hi Snoopy, just caught up on your thread .Its run for ages till the inevitable happened.    I think you will find many important lessons here .You have pointed out the most obvious so you know where you are going wrong. that is good . Try to think how much you would of saved if you had not thrown away your small stacks add this up and deduct it from your total loss. If you were playing 4 at a time it may be a largish sum.So take this out of your game, and you have an instant profit.        Now to something a little more obscure. With this theory I am speaking from thousands of hours experience,its not a theory as such but something I have come across more times than I want to remember.                               Often when on a roll things are going great ,playing well, hardly any mistakes, and of course some substantial wins and no losses, then one day you go deep in the hole ,but you are playing well and you claw your way back out and after 20 hours show a reasonable profit.   I cannot explain it but the next session you get slaughtered nothing improves you get outdrawn every possible dog on the table wants to use you in a sexual manner. So what has happened, I dont actually know the answer, to that.I seem to remember that this had happened to you a few days before. So what can you do . Now the problem when your working is a little different to the problem the recreational player has he can take a holiday you have been at it for a short while and you need money coming in so apart from a couple of days of to lick your wounds what do you do. I find a change of venue and or medium to be the only way and sometimes have even  gone to the lenghts of changing countries.      Now this is all closing the stable door after the horse has bolted so to speak. I have always foud it hard to stop playing after 10 /15 straight wins,who wouldnt, but I do recognise that the big get out,is an alarm call and it is one which I now heed. This might seem like mumbo jumbo but it gives me time to calm down because when you are on a 15 break you are flying. Now does it stop you getting killed next time you walk in the joint well the juries still out on thatone.     What it does do is slow you down, starting from fresh if you like,so no more getting involved with crap when your aces dont improve to two pair in stud you can let go orthe flop must have put you 3rd bye bye  you are back to playing how you know you should be . So you take a loss but its not a biggie,eventually the form will return and your off again.Have a happy and prosperous new year LOL

Thx for the post, Nomad. Much appreciated.

It's bizarre. You have a great run, then suddenly it ends. You have 1 day when you are down by a load, but manage to just scrape back into profit. Then, the very next session, it all goes wrong. That happens so much for me, and you highlighting it is really wierd. There HAS to be something in it. Perhaps your brain just convinces you that you're playing well when you're not.

Anyhow, I've already taken your advice. I'm currently on a break and trying to stay away from the laptop. Hopefully when I return, I'll be back to my winning days.

One thing's for sure, there is no way on earth that I'll be tilting again.

[tikay]

Believe it or not, a cheap lesson then!