My Last Shot at Poker

ty for your words man, I once heard limitless say he gets high of losing. I don't know how to apply this in practice but it must be a pretty sick trait to have. If you have any ideas how to apply this in practice feel free to share

ps. if he gets high of losing he must have felt on top of the world during that Stefan match :P

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Nice one mate, and I misinterpreted your post. When I read it back after making my post I saw it was more or less constructive feedback (when I first read it I thought you were agro). I still stand behind what I said but this was one was a bit Karen of me:

my bad man 😃

I thought about this a bit actually, mainly last year. The answer is I'm mostly happy with who I am (except for some parts). And that being so emotional is a part of me. However the mistake I made is that I started to not only embrace it (which I guess is good, some self-love). But it made me entitled. I thought like: this is who I am, and I don't need to change. But in hindsight it was just an excuse to be lazy and not work on it. And when I don't work on it (not only my habits but also consciously working on mental game, on and off the table), the difference between me and a fish is not so big. And everything fells apart. I learned my lesson and try keep working it, but also keep up the acceptance of myself. There should be some equilibrium between those 2 which im trying to reach 😃

hahahaaha the severity was understood that day :P

Ty man, and gl on the tables

Thanks for your comment. I've definitely met people in poker (also some known top players) who have that more robot personality (idk how else to describe it, dont mean it so negative, just an observation). It's probably a good trait as you say to have as a high stakes player and it's not a coincidence that this trait is more common along top poker players. I've also met top players who didn't really have this trait, but they were just built different in terms of 0% money scared and being so good at detaching from the money. I think even in 2025 with all the resources out there, you can be the smartest, most talented guy out there but without this you will not make it to the top. I dont have this trait (was raised to be very "respectful" of money) and I will never get it. That's also why I think it's better to know my limitations. Still something in me wants to climb tho

I mentioned prodigy specifically because he seems to treat poker like chess. This is actually an interesting way to detach from the money/short term results, and just see what happens in terms of ev constantly etc. It does also really help for me, when I'm studying a bunch I'm much more focussed ingame on strategy and a lot less on irrelevant bs like shorterm results. But completely treating it like some videogame is not an option for me, I can't do it anyway and also probably don't want it (allthough never really thought it so deeply)

yeah mate exactly

sir yes sir! Believe it or not, actually touching solvers again recently

Nice to hear! and hope the podcast gives some nice insights

I can understand why you misinterpreted it, due to my choice of words, but glad that you took it for what it really is now, as it was definitely meant as constructive feedback 😀

GLGLGL !

You’re already doing the hardest part: being honest about your leaks and putting structure around your game. Your plan is solid breaks, BRM, exercise, and shutting down sessions when tilted will make a bigger difference than any strategy book.

Just remember you don’t need to “make it” overnight. Protect your mental game first, keep the stakes small, and focus on playing your A-game consistently. You’ve clearly got potential; you just need stability and routine to let it show. If you stay disciplined, this “last shot” can be your best one.

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you too gl!

woops 😃 r/wooshhhh

Cheers mate! About self-honesty I agree but I also need to be self-honest about asking myself what's self-honesty worth if I make the same mistakes over and over. Not only in poker but also irl.

Thank you for your post, and it's a reminder I really need to respect this more. I don't understand how I'm constantly trying to rush it. It's such an re-occurring theme in my journey and yet I've never set down and really thought about why I'm doing this the way I'm doing.

Last year I wrote some sort of plan for myself:

I was gonna grind x amount of hands, on stakes x and y, in a certain amount of time. No deviating whatsoever. I wrote down:

-Hands/day x days a week and expected time it was going to take
-Scheduling my sessions
-Challenges I was going to face
-How to deal with those challenges
-Daily routine when on the grind (kinda what im doing rn)
-Strategical and mental game points to focus on at the tables
-ways to improve and track improvement curve

When I completed this, it was the first time my net worth reached the 6figure mark. Afterwards I went back to yolo grinding with 0 structure. I had some success at first and went on crazy heater, but all the signs were already showing me my luck was running out. And it did.

I will try to make a new plan of action. Aimed for 2 months. Of course it should be longer but the longer the plan, the higher the change is to screw up and forfeit the challenge. Maybe I post it in here 😀

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$ graph looking less pretty

2k so rigged omggg

With like 25k rakeback, I'm +22k now since restart. I don't want to make it seem that rakeback is like this on average because it's not. Although respecting leaderboards a bit more (I ignored the weekly thing) can be rewarding.

I'm really happy this weekly lb is over (didn't log in yet so hopefully didnt jinx myself lol), the leaderboards were nuked hard and also this meta of dry tables with everyone trying to survive for rakeback (ratstackers, regheavy tables) was not great. I just ran hot on all games except for the 2k buy in ones this month thats why besides the awful session on 2k I still did ok.

Gonna take a small break probably on Wednessday-Monday and than I'm gonna start with that plan I mentioned above in this post.

gl for December!

How is your table selection currently? Do you want at least one fish (or spot/slight fish) or do you also play much all-reg lineups?

Glad to see you are still crushing. Keep it up and good luck on the tables!

Nice thread, subbed and GL! We might play some in the GG antegames

I'm pretty inconsistent with this. But for the most part there is some system behind it. It depends on energy levels during session, confidence, downswing/upswinging, leaderboard grind (some days I bother, somedays I don't), curiosity (when im studying a lot I just want to play and get in spots) and headspace. The only thing I don't do on gg is just join a table and play hu/3handed. I've been losing so much here with the rake and me donking off when stress hits because of the swings that, I can't justify this to myself. When the tables breaks and some of the conditions above match well, I allow myself to stay. But when you see me joining hu matches. I'm either overconfident or on tilt 😃

basically yes, either this or be confident enough im the best at the table by a bit.

Some sort of vague goal of mine, for long term, is to be able to play everyone/all line ups/regwars on low rakes sites. But it's unrealistic to do anytime soon and it will take a few years minimum to get there. Basically the skill set that is required for this (mental game, focus, stress tolerance), I lack all of it. And I'm also not good enough. But I will continue to put in lots of work to maybe reach that level to be able to do this. I have this weird goal because:

1. I struggle with hardcore bumhunting from like ethical pov, I know not many poker players share this view and I also know maybe this is just my mind trying to find ways to not enjoy the fruits (which is x year ev if I just do my damn job which is grind ring games with close to double digit winrate) of my hard work over the past years. But still it's always in the back of my mind and I feel like with the "play everyone approach" long term I can explain it to myself. I wonder how others feel about this.
2. Part of my drive for poker comes from some sort of inner gratification thing, I've wrote about this many times and I've tried to fight it but now I'm at the point where I just allow it and embrace it. if I'm 37 or something and I decide to do something else in my life, It's not the end of the world if I don't leave the tables with a 2.5 mil bankroll (or whatever is enough to be considered financial freedom). As long as I can say to myself that I became pretty fucking good at this stupid cardgame, and within my own judgement I reached some sort of mastery (no idea what this will be). That will be enough for me to feel like I succeeded. I know this sounds like some romantic bs and ofcourse there are other goals, but it feels almost freeing to just accept I'm a naive unprofessional idiot in regards to this.

Next year I will not change anything from my current approach tho, For the upcoming period, I just need to be a good boy and grind my ev, improve and go from there.

ty mate! Hope you are doing alright aswell!

Nice one, wish you on the tables. Curious who you are on gg 😃

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Good month, studied and improved a lot and also started to run well at some point.

Sample since "regrind"

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Just came back from a long break, which was much needed. And I'm Very very motivated for 2026. I already made some plans/goals and I have a feeling it will be a very good year. I will also try to do some sort of year wrap of 2025, even though I already wrote about what happened and within the holdem sample there is not much to see. I Think it's just fair to also show the shit years and not only be all excited making posts when I crushed for the year. But I will do that later somewhere in January.

Anyway, wish you all happy ny in advance and gl in 2026.

Happy new year, it sounds as though things are looking up!

You should have a coach go over your 2025 hand history so you come in even better for 2026. GL on your 2026 grind.

Lords don't need coaches, he's calling their hands! The severity!

ty guys!!! Also gl in 2026 to you

In regards to a coach, yes im getting some help. The graph im going to show will not add a lot of credibility but overall it's really helpful and great value 😃

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-12k$ January, really bad start of the year. I was so motivated and it started so well but I was going a little bit too hard in hindsight. Especially in 5/10ante got completely rekt with a couple days where I grinded lb and just kept losing stack after stack. There was such good action and the ev is huge but clearly I should have quit earlier and move down. I'm mainly disappointed in me just fucking up my routine and consistency when the downswing came. It's easy to run all the tagged hands in solver when I'm running well and being +25k for the month, but it's hard to keep up with that when I have 5/6 days in a row when completely getting rekt. And that's where I could have shown strength, but I didn't. After the downswing I kinda lost motivation and was just randomly grinding all sorts of stakes and formats still swinging a lot. But since last week I'm just being professional again and back at focusing at 1 format and everything is back to normal. The year is still early and everything will be fine I think.

Ante last month:

I keep having this love/hate relationship with this format. I either have these periods where I'm playing with a lot of confidence and everything works and feels smooth, the randomizer being used less etc. And before I know it I'm in a phase where I'm check folding all day, everything feels confusing, getting more and more annoyed at my opponents while the losses are stacking up. And I keep going through crazy downswings in this format. The worst one being 70bi (with 1 bi being 200bb), while still doing good here lifetime. Despite 6max going well last month (mainly nl1k up a bunch) and ante going so bad, I will stick with ante for this month and only play this format!

glgl for February

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evbb also got nuked last month :/ time to get this back to around 7!

whats up ? How is the journey progressing ?