Prose from a Poshboy

[George2Loose]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion mate. Only problem is when it effects your decision making and costs you £££

[cambridgealex]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion mate. Only problem is when it effects your decision making and costs you £££

Yeh I think I was a bit hard on myself last night. Andy said I wasnt being a dick or losing ungracefully, just visibly frustrated and in a bad mood. He said I only tilted off the last buyin.

Very happy today though. My new computer monitor arrived and its fkn ballin. Met Stato's mum who is a legend. She's bought us seriously balla toilet paper as well as moping our kitchen floor and giving Andy lots of banter.

Ready for more paiiiiiin tonight

[George2Loose]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion mate. Only problem is when it effects your decision making and costs you £££

Yeh I think I was a bit hard on myself last night. Andy said I wasnt being a dick or losing ungracefully, just visibly frustrated and in a bad mood. He said I only tilted off the last buyin.

Very happy today though. My new computer monitor arrived and its fkn ballin. Met Stato's mum who is a legend. She's bought us seriously balla toilet paper as well as moping our kitchen floor and giving Andy lots of banter.

Ready for more paiiiiiin tonight

Milf?

[cambridgealex]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion mate. Only problem is when it effects your decision making and costs you £££

Yeh I think I was a bit hard on myself last night. Andy said I wasnt being a dick or losing ungracefully, just visibly frustrated and in a bad mood. He said I only tilted off the last buyin.

Very happy today though. My new computer monitor arrived and its fkn ballin. Met Stato's mum who is a legend. She's bought us seriously balla toilet paper as well as moping our kitchen floor and giving Andy lots of banter.

Ready for more paiiiiiin tonight

Milf?

I'll pm you. Don't wanna anger him.

Also, stop trying to get the gossip!

[millidonk]

well herro Stato's mum

[George2Loose]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion mate. Only problem is when it effects your decision making and costs you £££

Yeh I think I was a bit hard on myself last night. Andy said I wasnt being a dick or losing ungracefully, just visibly frustrated and in a bad mood. He said I only tilted off the last buyin.

Very happy today though. My new computer monitor arrived and its fkn ballin. Met Stato's mum who is a legend. She's bought us seriously balla toilet paper as well as moping our kitchen floor and giving Andy lots of banter.

Ready for more paiiiiiin tonight

Milf?

I'll pm you. Don't wanna anger him.

Also, stop trying to get the gossip!

Haha. I sent one message to Andy. I'd keep it to myself.

Not a gossipmonger but if you two have fallen out, it's a big shame

[Pinchop73]

You not playing the gukpt side tonight?

[Pyso]

Alex,

Your diary has been fun to read and kudos to you for your honesty, it is what makes it worth a gander.

Just a couple of observations if I may, in no particular order, and none of them meant to be derogatory, think of them as helpful feedback from an outer perspective.

Don't take this the wrong way, but your edge is quite possibly not as big as you seem to think it is. I reckon any 'edge' diminishes as you lose more in a session anyway, something that you need to factor in. People can see you are tilting and you won't get away with as much.

And not everyone is a fish, even if they aren't in your inner circle. Players have improved much in the last few years and even the 'fish' are better than they were three years ago. The gap is not always as vast as you seem to make out sometimes.

Tilt control is a massive part of the make up of a winning player. It affects everybody to a certain degree, even the quiet ones, and the best tilt less than the rest. This is where a stop loss is a good idea. Losing 1k is not completely ridiculous (you seem to understand variance) in a 50p/£1 deepstacked straddle game populated by £1/£2 regulars (ie playing much higher than it's name would suggest), but losing 10 buy-ins clearly is very stupid, as you yourself have said. The fact that you realise this is a good start and I'm sure you will take steps to address this.

And maybe you aren't taking it seriously enough if you are playing Countdown with your mate on your ipad whilst in the game. It seems a very dismissive attitude. Even the worst players need observing and will take lines that you may miss if you are otherwise occupied. I'm not saying you shouldn't use your iphone/ipad or whatever at times, but you are saying you are a professional poker player (and young enough to give it your full attention), so maybe a bit more focus wouldn't go amiss.

You seem a nice lad and I'm sure things will only move on up for you, but please don't place too much emphasis on winning the Monte Carlo. Luck is such a significant part of tournaments that I would take it all with a pinch of salt for now, even if you did play well.

Just carry on grinding, ramp up the focus, keep looking inwards for self improvement (and it seems you are doing this), and listen to people like Ed Gascoigne who speak much sense. That is the whole point of you posting your diary I would have said -  the feedback is so useful.

Anyway, good luck and keep posting.

[George2Loose]

good post Pyso.

Must be -EV playing stato at countdown. Game selection ftw

[zerofive]

Some very good posts here in your hour of need Alex (bar Jamie's platitude of course.) I don't get this sort of feedback, so please don't take it for granted.

[cambridgealex]

Yeh thanks everyone. Your comments and feedback is always appreciated. This diary has helped me so much in so many ways.

Bounced back nicely tonight with just under a £900 win on the 1/2  

[kinboshi]

Yeh thanks everyone. Your comments and feedback is always appreciated. This diary has helped me so much in so many ways.

Bounced back nicely tonight with just under a £900 win on the 1/2  

Variance

[zerofive]

[kinboshi]

[cambridgealex]

Just won BIGGEST ever pot on cash...and it was at the 50/1 table hehe