I've not yet talked about cash games this month ... It is time for me to do, because the evening tonight necessarily mark a turning point, perhaps even definitive, this challenge ... month has started particularly well in line with the last 3 months. As expected, I went to the NL200, continuing to play at the beginning of the NL100 tables in parallel. I continued to play the game played with success in recent weeks NL100, and the least we can say is that it worked well, as shown in my curve until Monday.
Curve February - BEFORE
The most incredible is that the 10K hands played, I was about half in NL100, for a gain of 300 €, and thus the other half in NL200 for a gain of 2500 €, from 26bb/100! And I do not even runni especially good because my EV was 150 € to 3350 € but NL100 NL200 in ...
importantly, I had this feeling of serenity in my game, patiently acquired over the past few months. A game still quite aggressive, but cautious, with relatively little bluff, little hero call, and not seeking a maximum value at any price right hands, but preferring to give a little appreciation often enough rather than Sit n Go face a better hand.
What happened Monday? I do not really know. A difficult session, where the little log flops, where one has cracked the AA K9 making trips in a 4-bet pot, which loses a fortune K7 K9 face on a board K97xx, where AA is losing much face K9 (again) who made 2 pairs, where many hands should be abandoned to face the enemy resistance, when finally my color impaled on a river full of which I had not even glimpse the possibility:
And at the end of session, a first return to the one I thought I dominated and managed to evacuate: the Tilt. I pay a 4-bet and rugs (100 blinds) with AQ, which of course has no meaning (I'm almost never better than a flip, and often against AK, which was of course the case here). I also pay three barrels with the second pair of board not believing my opponent who had yet although the trips from the beginning ... I also tried several bluffs idiots who of course never spend ...
short, beyond the first session strongly negative (-800 €), are the first signs of a return to what had caused my fall last summer exaggerated and poorly controlled aggression, too much bluff recovery on 3 streets of justifying the hands do not feel like they do much bluffing resulting call stupid, etc. ...
Why? No idea, and that's what bothers me. Without doubt the subconscious feeling that face a higher level of play, unless you enjoy meeting flops (which has been my case in the first half of the month), it is critical to the move, trying stuff, or because he is stronger, they bullshit me more often when they represent a strong hand.
Okay, okay you say, it is lost for only 800 € in 2800, and I know that I have slipped, there's only good resume habits and return to our game more standard 3 months to resume the advance.
Yes, but ... Looks like I can not do it. And I do not understand why. Between Monday and yesterday I did 2 sessions slightly positive (and 95 € to 275 €) and 3 largely negative (- 450 €, € € -625 and -250), each with the feeling of having not play well, for having allowed myself to go to dangerous areas of tiltbluffjtecroispasj'aitptkjtemetstroisbarrels ...
On tonight ... I said to myself "it's Saturday night, Will there for fish" (I'd eat all the way monumental weekend with an increase to 4 digits), "I play seriously, abc, no move, not bluffing, discipline, I do not break and I found my way to play a week ago. To implement it, this is my fifth hand of the session played against a completely unknown player (so I had 4 hands stats against him)
Like I ' told ... Well, now I know it's a fish, it's cool. But at 200 € the info, it's a little pricey, no? The river is completely stupid bet. I missed, I missed, I will not make him spend his pair with the 3rd barrel, just abandon the coup to save more than half a cellar.
First, I corrected myself quickly enough, manage to play clean, touch a few good hands, and quickly returns to € 450 on the session.
And then, suddenly, everything went completely c. .. I give you all the hands where I lost a cellar, you'll see the horrors, especially the river call absolutely grotesque showing a real tilt as I had known more for 3 months. I'll spare you all the hands where I lost a third or a half-cellar by not paying the carpet river (probably wrongly, by the way, because when you lose lucidity as was the case here, we tend to pay after the hands obvious which one is beaten and conversely to edit movies on hands where you may be in front). I put them in chronological order, knowing that it accelerated towards the end - the last 3 were performed in 2 minutes, just before I stop the massacre finally ...
hands 1-2-4-5-8 are played face to fish, the fish of the 2 and 4 being the same gogolmaniac playing (true!): 70/38/20 to 3bet / 5.5 agg / 100% CBET etc. ....
Hands 3 and 6 are facing good reg.
http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/multihands.php/id/36345
Ridiculous, right? Most are poorly performed and for at least 4 of them (3-4-5-7), it is really of anything in anything ...
And here. So here I am very worried. Not so much to have tilted, or even losing a 4-digit amount in 2 hours, or find me now at -160 € 16K hands in the month of February ...
Curve February - AFTER
After all, it would suffice to say that the 3000 € lost this week can be regained by the end of the month, right?
What really bothers me is that I have no explanation for what happened to me, so no idea how to cope. In fact, after three months of clean game and ability to cope with zen for inferior sessions without ever really tilter, I'm leaving in exactly where I had fallen through during my last visit in NL200. So, the only conclusion that comes to mind at this moment is that NL200 is perhaps just too strong for me. And I may not be able to play at this level until you do not get carried away without control myself when it does not happen as I want ...
And of course, if the match NL200 Indeed, my threshold for incompetence, then it would put an end to the last remaining doubts about the chances of success of this challenge ... I know what Stefal will say, eh (;-)), but I remain convinced that arriving to play and win in NL400 is the only way forward.
Sure, if I hold systematically NL200 is the end. I have not decided for now, I'm not disgusted, I do not want to stop everything so ... I'm just confused and am not sure how to deal with this situation ...
[EDIT] After discovering the excellent post from Olivier "Integrity" , I rush on to check my histo ... But not, alas, I did not play in play money tonight, but real money. Life of m. ..
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