I woke up early this morning for some reason, so obv fired up the laptop for some pokerage. A few days a go I had one of those perfect sessions where I won a couple of 4man $20s and a couple of $30s for a nice profit of $180. Only 4 matches, yet since the hourly was five times my day job rate it gave me happy daydreams of being the baller poker pro. The next couple of days however reminded me how meaningless a winning streak of 4 games is as I failed to win anything at all. It’s lucky two of those winning games were 4mans as I’m still showing a profit from that.
Anyway, the point of that partial brag is that I’m deluding myself with low volume. So today’s intention is to keep hammering away and see how it goes, even if it’s a losing streak (unless I get really tilted obv).
I also didn’t intend to blog this early in the morning either, but the first match was interesting. Here’s the match for anyone who has nothing better to do;
My opponent played 2p2 ABC poker all the way – 3bb raises, roughly 70% hands on button, 30% OOP, 3bet reasonably, folded to most 3bets but not all etc. He didn’t seem to tilt, just kept going. In other words he didn’t seem to do anything wrong at all, apart from perhaps being unimaginative.
The game however went my way. In fact I was on the winning side throughout – a couple of times we went back to equal stacks but I never had to come back from behind. Was that because I had an edge? No idea, it’s doubtful…
I sharkscoped him and it turned out he’d been grinding mostly $5s and $10 with some stabs at $20+. After some success initially ($450+) he’s now a losing player (-$150).
I don’t get it – playing a solid game doesn’t mean you’ll win? Have I just been lucky and could easily become this guy (my game count is still less than his initial success stage)?
btw, in before NMIHU,ES… (that means you Yegor 
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Update: Hammering away seems to work 
ok, still only 14 games but that’s better than 4! Plus my BR is over $1k at last! Guess I have to try some $50s now and go back to scared money
need 1000′s of games for an accurate win rate % and accurate ROI
NMIHU,ES
wait what?
Keep the faith, you’re results are excellent so far. Self doubt is natural for poker players with all of the uncertainties involved. I played a couple of players recently like you described; they didn’t seem to have any clear leaks but were big losers. They must have them (leaks), but less obvious ones. I think my biggest leak is that I often earn chip leads in the first couple of levels but then when the blinds increase I have a tendency to tighten up (due to reduced implied odds mainly) and the blinds eat away that lead. What I should be doing is playing more of a maniacal style to take advantage of my opponent’s tendency to do the same thing (tighten up). Hope this made sense, I’m working on my problem and hopefully my results will come around. Keep up the good work with your game, I hope to see you in the $50s some day. Simon
by the way… NMIHU, ES… I’m guessing the first bit is a quote from 2+2 moaning about ‘no money in heads up’ but what does the ES stand for? Or is it a private joke lol?
Yegor didn’t get it though. I don’t know why I bother…