Poker is not a game, it is a lifestyle

…only this time it didn’t work :D

Full Tilt Poker $10.00 No Limit Hold’em – 6 players – View hand 645137
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (UTG): $14.84
MP: $11.25
CO: $13.20
BTN: $10.30
SB: $10.19
BB: $7.50

Pre Flop: ($0.15) Hero is UTG with 9 9
Hero raises to $0.35, 4 folds, BB raises to $1, Hero calls $0.65

Flop: ($2.05) 4 8 Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $1.50, BB raises to $6.50, Hero calls $5

Turn: ($15.05) 6 (2 players)

River: ($15.05) 4 (2 players)

Final Pot: $15.05
Hero shows 9 9
BB shows A A
BB wins $14.05
(Rake: $1.00)

Never try this at home :) BTW, everyone, who yet didn’t, watch a video series of Grindcore “The Thin Red Line”. Very amazing thoughts and ideas. Learn, apply and crush :)

Today is a tough day. I did not make many decent hands, so I was forced to fold a lot. It is hard to continue folding when you do this all day long :D Good thing is that there are a lot of bad players, so I can get value when I have a decent hand.

I kind of started tilting. My tilting was shoving with marginal hand and calling few bets light. I imagine myself some time after all when I will be able to play my A game all day. I my C game will not be as bad as it is now.

I think I will make some adjustments to my C game, so that I will stop bleeding money :) This day came like always – I was thinking I will be able to avoid tilt and when it came, I wasn’t :D nice…

1st adjustment: Do not cbet in multiway pots (3 or more) without TP/OP.
2nd adjustment: Tight UTG and MP raising range – ATs+, AJo+, 77+, KQ, QJs, JTs.
3rd adjustment: Tight 3betting range IP – TT+, AQ+.

Right now I am tilting and I believe that tilting is my main problem of loosing money in online poker. So let’s take a deeper look at what causes me to tilt:

1. Coolers. They do not cause me to tilt, since I know these happen in poker.

2. Missclicks. Oh, this makes me tilt a lot. I have a tendency to be quick at pressing buttons or checking boxes. The thing I hate most is when I want to check a box quick and suddenly my opponent bets and I missclick ‘call’. This makes me super angry. Usually I do not check the boxes, but I do this when I want to speed up the game.

Solution: Do not check boxes when playing HU.

3. Tired. When I am tired I want to speed up the game. This causes me to make fast (bad) decisions and even missclicks. Sucks so much :D

Solution: Play no more than 1 hour a session and than make at least 10 min good break (like Tommy Angelo said in the series “The Eightfold Path to Poker Enlightment”.

4. My mistakes. I cosider mistakes to be thing when I lose against opponents entire range and make a -EV decision. Usually this happen when I am tired or try to rush the game. Any bad thing can cause a chain reaction and I get tilted. When I make mistakes I become even more tilted.

Solution: Whenever I make a big mistake and feel tilted, I will take a break (regardless if 1 hour has passed or not).

5. Running bad. This also does not cause me to tilt, but sometimes I start rushing to play (so I could get good cards faster) and this causes me to tilt :D. Only solution to this is to be patient, which I am, when I am not tilted.

Now I know my tilting problems and solutions and I feel much better. Whenever I will tilt and lose money, I will stop and do my analysis, so that I would diminish tilting from my game. So no tilting anymore, I can go to play :) This self-analysis helped me a lot.