January 18, 2010
Paying my dues with a cold deck
1000 hands of brutal nastyness, It’s times like this a player really starts to ask questions of himself, and that’s never a good thing. I’ve had 25000 really good hands since November when I got a lot of the bugs out of my postflop play. 3 bad sessions is just irrelevant. If I have to settle in for 50 bad sessions I’d rather face them with my head up and my shoulders straight.
I checked my history, looked again at my decisions.
The usual stupid leaks remain to be assessed, not looking left and getting caught off guard by a shortstack shoving from the blinds, missing a squeeze spot or floating on a semi drawy board and biting your hand as you value town yourself into his gutshot. really not much where I just spewed off.
Some coolers, some suck outs, Twice I’ve had a flopped set just call me down on a friendly looking board, and an AQ call down v my AJ.
This isn’t bad play this is just the nature of the game. Paying my dues I call it. Think of it as income tax if you like.
The important thing is, not to start trying to force it. Pushing thin edges too far believing you are owed a big pot surely this time. Paying off a fish because theres just no way he can have cracked my flopped two pair with a backdoor flush AGAIN.
Just stop looking at the graphs and the cashier balance for a while, concentrate on every street of every hand.
I have millions of hands still to play. And I intend to make sure I play them all for value.
But that doesn’t mean I know it all. I know that!
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