Some updates
Something got jacked up with pokerhand.org, so if my links in the previous entries weren't working for you, try them now I went through and re-uploaded the hands.
This month is going very well so far, I'm happy to report. I'm still playing mostly heads up, where the bulk of my hands are falling at 5/10nl. The games have been good and I think I'm improving my skills, not tilting THATTTT much, and overall running pretty well. If I can manage to not go on any major downswings I should hopefully have a very solid monthly result.
Tonight I organized an online "home game" with my dedicated students. We 2 tabled small stakes (25c/50c) on pokerstars and all got on Skype and discussed the hands. I think everyone had a good time and there was definitely a some good discussion going on. I think doing some of these "extras" for my dedicated students (like having the personal forum, occasional student-only videos, and occasional homework assignments) helps keep everyone happy and learning. I'm not aware of too many coaches that do these types of things, but I'm all about trying to offer people a good return on their investment (as coaching can get quite expensive).
I'm headed to NYC on Monday night to meet up with KRANTZ, whitelime, FWF, and the New York based DC crew. We're going to try to get a lot of stuff done and hopefully get a fair number of hands in sweating each other. Should be a good time, I'm looking forward to it. The last time I went to NYC I dropped like 22k or so (lol... you can search back last sept/oct for the blog entry) so hopefully I can avoid that this go around. If I recall, I was also having a good month back then before I went. I hope history does not repeat itself hahaha....
A little further down the horizon, I was looking at dates to go to vegas for the wsop this year. I think I'll end up being out there between roughly June 16th and July 4th or so. It will depend if I qualify for the main event or not. If I can somehow luckbox my way into a seat (ugh, was within 20 people on sunday of winning a 12k package... 5 hours for nothing puke on tournaments) I may try to go after winning a second seat, as on June 13th there's the WSOP Heads-Up Event which I think would be a lot of fun to take a run at. It's a $10k entry so I'd probably want to try to satellite in as opposed to plopping down 10 buyins of my normal game.
If any of you guys are going to be out there for the wsop and you want to meet up, let me know.
I haven't played much 10/20nl HU so far this month, I'm hoping to get some of that in while in NYC and during this week's coaching session with Jay. I'm somewhat irrationally worried about hitting a huge downswing at the higher stakes and it's kind of pussing me out a bit. It's like there's this weird mental block that is keeping me from going no higher than 5/10nl for my "main" game. I dunno what it is, just need to get more experience, run decently, and play well and I'll be fine.
I made a "good quit" yesterday. I was playing a regular on PokerStars heads up (which I typically don't do) and on like the 3rd hand of the match I lost with 99 to AKo all in preflop. On all acounts a totally standard hand by both of us. After another 15 minutes of playing I was bleeding chips a bit having c-bets failed and with no momentum I just decided it's not worth it and quit down 1.5 buyins to him. I'm starting to turn over a new leaf in this regard I think. Momentum is just so huge in a heads up match that unless you think you just have a monster edge over someone it is often the best move to just swallow the loss and leave to find greener pastures. I'm going to try to do continue to do this, but the more money I'm down the harder it becomes to quit, for me at least.
Alright gonna see if there are any donkeys out there to play.
Aaron
This month is going very well so far, I'm happy to report. I'm still playing mostly heads up, where the bulk of my hands are falling at 5/10nl. The games have been good and I think I'm improving my skills, not tilting THATTTT much, and overall running pretty well. If I can manage to not go on any major downswings I should hopefully have a very solid monthly result.
Tonight I organized an online "home game" with my dedicated students. We 2 tabled small stakes (25c/50c) on pokerstars and all got on Skype and discussed the hands. I think everyone had a good time and there was definitely a some good discussion going on. I think doing some of these "extras" for my dedicated students (like having the personal forum, occasional student-only videos, and occasional homework assignments) helps keep everyone happy and learning. I'm not aware of too many coaches that do these types of things, but I'm all about trying to offer people a good return on their investment (as coaching can get quite expensive).
I'm headed to NYC on Monday night to meet up with KRANTZ, whitelime, FWF, and the New York based DC crew. We're going to try to get a lot of stuff done and hopefully get a fair number of hands in sweating each other. Should be a good time, I'm looking forward to it. The last time I went to NYC I dropped like 22k or so (lol... you can search back last sept/oct for the blog entry) so hopefully I can avoid that this go around. If I recall, I was also having a good month back then before I went. I hope history does not repeat itself hahaha....
A little further down the horizon, I was looking at dates to go to vegas for the wsop this year. I think I'll end up being out there between roughly June 16th and July 4th or so. It will depend if I qualify for the main event or not. If I can somehow luckbox my way into a seat (ugh, was within 20 people on sunday of winning a 12k package... 5 hours for nothing puke on tournaments) I may try to go after winning a second seat, as on June 13th there's the WSOP Heads-Up Event which I think would be a lot of fun to take a run at. It's a $10k entry so I'd probably want to try to satellite in as opposed to plopping down 10 buyins of my normal game.
If any of you guys are going to be out there for the wsop and you want to meet up, let me know.
I haven't played much 10/20nl HU so far this month, I'm hoping to get some of that in while in NYC and during this week's coaching session with Jay. I'm somewhat irrationally worried about hitting a huge downswing at the higher stakes and it's kind of pussing me out a bit. It's like there's this weird mental block that is keeping me from going no higher than 5/10nl for my "main" game. I dunno what it is, just need to get more experience, run decently, and play well and I'll be fine.
I made a "good quit" yesterday. I was playing a regular on PokerStars heads up (which I typically don't do) and on like the 3rd hand of the match I lost with 99 to AKo all in preflop. On all acounts a totally standard hand by both of us. After another 15 minutes of playing I was bleeding chips a bit having c-bets failed and with no momentum I just decided it's not worth it and quit down 1.5 buyins to him. I'm starting to turn over a new leaf in this regard I think. Momentum is just so huge in a heads up match that unless you think you just have a monster edge over someone it is often the best move to just swallow the loss and leave to find greener pastures. I'm going to try to do continue to do this, but the more money I'm down the harder it becomes to quit, for me at least.
Alright gonna see if there are any donkeys out there to play.
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 2:03 AM
1 Comments:
In my limited experience playing heads up I definitely agree that having momentum helps a ton, but do you think that it actually "should" matter? Is there a good reason why your EV goes down, as opposed to going on tilt since you "lost the momentum"?
As a proxy for "don't play HU on tilt ever you will lose always" I think it's decent advice to quit w out any momentum, otherwise I'm not sure.
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