My results of grinding 2NL 5NL 10NL 25NL 50NL 100NL

It’s time to fix biggest leak in my game which is: results oriented thinking

Without fixing that leak there is no strategy in the world that will be effective

Like every time i experience bad variance i start to think how unfair it is over and over again and i get angry, it’s absurd

Lately i watched some youtube videos where Malinowski lost 1mil+$ in a single session and i was wondering how top pros can handle such loses without going tilt and punting everything but one of the reasons they are there is that, they can handle it pretty well

I can punt few stacks at NL10 and it's whatever but imagine I'm reaching to the top and do the same, it will be like a death sentence, it can be like life is over experience

By realizing this i realize without fixing this there is no point in moving up, it's like moving up to set up yourself to a disaster sooner or later

So i need to somehow teach my mind to once and forever stop results oriented thinking, i need to find a way and i need to do it really fast

I recommend that you practice playing GTO first and only then start applying your own game/strategy. For example, the pro you follow plays very close to GTO and even tighter many times. When you try to play close to GTO, your result-oriented thinking disappears.

With my latest strategy when i tested balance over small sample i got surprised, i made overbet-turn over 41 times with really strong hands and i made overbet-turn with bluff also 41 times, i was really amazed how i managed to balance it, my math really worked well, GTO is too complex, i prefer to balance it with my own style but will use GTO for preflop fundamentals

I sometimes have a problem where I start playing too many mind games and try to level the game unnecessarily. If it gets too out of hand I take a more gto approach, especially pre-flop. It's a bit like a cure for my own fansy play syndrome.

Newsflash: very often these top pros don't have 100% of their action.

You may have seen him lose $1M+ but he may have only had a small % of that loss.

Not sure what difference this makes.

If I lost a million of my own or someone else's money I'd be PISSED

read the mental game of poker 1 and 2 (first is available online as pdf illegally), study them front to back like a University module. become a master at all the techniques in there and you will be able to play unfazed.

Started reading 1, very powerful book.

That AT trips is a river fold. Notice his sizing tell on the river, he goes super greedy, he needs a lot of bluffs and ppl don't have nearly enough bluffs there. On the other hand they put too many strong trips in their shoving range. And worse trips are not shoving...

AK you should just be big ott, hard to imagine a scenario where the small bet is a thing. Also, it leveled you into calling 😀 which is pretty bad

I agree that AA should have folded on the Flop in most cases in Rush&cash games. Against some players it might be +ev call but you know how tight the game is in general in rush&cash games. The most common tactic for many is just to fish sets from flops and turns and then shove them all in.

You hold A ♦ so it's not going to be nut flush draw hands. Maybe K ♦ Q ♦ otherwise villain's line stinks of sets

And often even if your opponent had a draw after that action, they would probably just call out of position.

This is from the book, i mean finally i can recognize myself as a mental game fish

The last one hits different, how many times i said “Just one time” 😃

Do u ever allow things to get personal with the other regulars bro?

Actually yes, many times but not the way you imagined, i think meaning of that is when a reg outplays you or bluffs you, you play vs that reg more loose next time or you’re affected with previous interactions with that reg so you make more spewy plays vs him

Gotta love micros....

Today i felt superior mental wise, i had few moments when i lost badly and as soon as tilt symptoms started to occur i identified them immediately and told myself to not think about results

When my stack was getting lower i had familiar unpleasant feeling but told myself to not care about it

Finally im starting to realize how important is mental game, it’s not any less important than strategy itself

If you just cbet the flop he raises and you stack him easy game. Now you manage to win 25bbs in a pure setup.

Literally won the minimum.

I play according my strategy now, i can't cbet there because it will make my checking range unbalanced

In the other hand with AA in SRP i need more defense mechanism because i will be against sets more often when i get raised, i prefer to raise myself to identify villains hand strength

I give that hand 0/5

you should aim highest ev solution all time.

You are trying to play balanced vs opponents that has no clue what balance looks like. Just get that money vs Fish.

You should understand that at these levels players don't know any strategy not even GTO. These players are usually tight and passive who rarely bluff. They play a very straightforward game where the goal is to get the nuts one way or another and push them all in.

Your strategy should be more like . How do you exploit these players.?
1. Hit the pressure
2. Hit the value with good hands
3. 3 bet a lot cos they will fold too often pre flop and post flop.
4. Bluffs aLOT
5. Don't try too much bluffcatch tight and passive on the river. They have 99% of the best hands if they show aggression.
6. At the same time, try to navigate the regs who 3-bet a lot and start 4-betting them.

This strategy is workin fine for me.

Yes but micro limit is just my training field, if i played micros for a living i would accept your advice but im practicing my strategy to chase my HS dream

=) Fair enough just dont troll cos we eat your bites

PS. You can still accept my advice and apply the thought process to your own strategy.

Past week i was doing mostly off table work, numbers numbers numbers everywhere and calculator was my best friend

Now my main goal is to practice the strategy i made and see how it works in practice but there is still some more off table work to do, i do it too slow, i may just think whole day and not even play a single hand, hope to finish my off table work fast