Riddlemedeuce

Ok, here’s a blog post about random stuff that is in my mind right now.

I was basically out of the poker scene(lol) last 2-3 months or so. Just had so much other things i had to do regarding to school etc. I was able to play about 10k hands a month(break-even) and had no time to really study the game. Well, i guess it’s okay, you can’t really force it can you?

Now i have found some time for poker, and have watched a tons of videos and played a decent amount. I’ve tried to keep it “quality over quantity” however, and played mostly 4 tables.

Unfortunately im still good at lying to myself that i try harder than i actually do. That’s why it might be a good idea to blog about things that i actually do to improve my game. Lately(maybe in the last 3-4 weeks or so) i’ve watched: Pretty mutch everything NLHE that has come out this season at DC: Euro Trip, Coaching Kristy, SSNL disease, The Riddler and the Base Camps. In addition i’ve watched 6 episodes of 1st season of The Coaching Tree. I’ve also been more active at the forums.

What I still need to do and what can i change: I have to finally finish watching the Math series and the Hand readers series. I should finish the SSNLHE book. I have been watching videos pretty passively lately, i should stop the video when an interesting spots come, make notes and think think think.

Hmm..this blogging thing might actually be useful to track my learning, i’ll try to keep it up.

WARNING! The following text includes a bad beat:

It’s amazing how the variance can still get in your head, even if you have played tons of hands, lots of hours etc. I sometimes find myself..tilting (probably that is the right word) even in super standard situations, like being down like two buyins. Yesterday, for example, I was down 2-3 buyins(and why the heck i was even following that?!), felt like shit, got up to a point when i was about break-even for the day(still following the results, why?) and felt like god. Then a 70/60 maniac openshoved and i of course snapped with AQs, he turned over A9o and i lost when he hit a 9 on the flop. I felt like shit again. Thinking that now feels just silly, i always think i understand variance, but still let it get into my head. It makes me feel so stupid. I don’t like feeling stupid, so i hope (and will work on it) that one day i can be friends with variance.

-riddlemedeuce