Nice post over on Thoughts of a Microstakes Grinder. He’s talking about the countless whines about non-showdown winnings being -ve for most players.
He points out the obvious (with hindsight) point of;
Winning redline money requires getting your opponent to fold. Losing redline money requires your opponent to make you fold.
It’s passivity that makes a -ve redline, not insufficient aggression (not the same thing). Somewhat funny that all these TAG’s have an obvious red flag that they’re not the bombs they think they are.
I can only say this since I’m totally the opposite;
I suspect this is the graph of the anti-passive player – the calling station! I have clearly failed to fold enough times, and while I’ve pulled it back lately I’m still suffering from this idiocy. This weekend was another losing 1k hands (only 1 buy-in though), and it was the usual situations of ‘hmm, probably beat here, but gonna call. Ah, yes that’s what I thought he had‘
Must listen to the little voice more…























wow, that’s fkn sick!
lol – of course I could be just button-dyslexic…
You are a calling station sir. Good that you’re pulling it back though.
It is getting better, but seem to be dogged by bad luck at the moment (combined with bad play = fmlx10).
GL with your resurrection