Spinning and Streaming.

"Make each day your masterpiece."

The first quote has to be my favorite excerpt, that I even have a tattoo on my arm about that, this has come from a much longer one:

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Even though I'm not religious, I like this quote in so many levels. I don't pray for guidance, but I do try to find inner peace and orientation in everything I do, which brings us to today. I have made only 65 games today, mostly because I didn't organized my hours properly, tomorrow it shall be different. Mindset is good, but I did had some tricky hands in the middle of the session after losing 10 games in a row, still I kept my balance and played accordingly without thinking about the past results on my decision making.

Today's graph (chipEV: 160):

Stream worked really fine, so all games are there, though because I also use the stream to play with my friends, it might have some weird scenarios there. The hand I wanted to share today was this particular one:

I raised this hand because on the SB I'm raising almost all my range, and this villain was playing pretty much fit-fold on any kind of boards since the game was 3-handed. His calling range was around 30-40% of hands. The C-Bet was comfortable for me because of backdoor outs, and I'm almost sure he folds 80% of the time here.

After his call (which he wasn't doing very often), I'm putting him on Qx, most definitely not on 9T, as he wasn't playing speculative low connectors. So the turn cbet was almost entirely sure for me to get full value from him. Unfortunately, it didn't, but reading through it again, I'm pretty sure I'd play the same line. Any thoughs?

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. - (CAMPBELL, Joseph)"

Whether the day had so many coin flips, they weren't the sole reason of the poor performance I had today, which showed me I need some time to evaluate a bunch of my hands, and already found some major leaks in my game. Yes, there was an insane amount of showdowns that were coin flips, but hands like the one I'll show below the graph are a big reason today wasn't a good day, so without further ado:

Today's graph (chipEV: 13,30 :f_o:)

Not getting the right odds, and mostly calling with the hope of turning a T sounds horrible, since I'm only drawing to that. On the turn however, there's more reasons to stay in the hand, but I've stringed myself of some very unnecessary money in this hand. This pattern was seen on some other hands that I've ended folding on the river after three barrels of bets.

The quote today aligns with all this, yes, I could've blamed the insane amount of games that were decided on coin flips, but better adjusting my aggression, and avoiding these passive plays would have improved my game way more, than blaming the universe that I couldn't catch showdowns that weren't coin flips. Tomorrow is a new day, with more knowledge of myself than I had today. Hopefully things improve.

About the hand you posted above, i think Its WP.

Folding the flop vs the 1 bb donk would be terrible with your hand. ( i would even consider raising as 1 bb donks Are Usally weak). A gutshot + backdoor flushdraw cannot be folded.

Turn is an easy call and i think folding river there is fine vs a 3 barrel. Overall Wp and you are definitly not loosing money playing like you did in that spot.

Gl with the spins!

Thanks for the insight @totte1992, I'm looking at my hands trying to find what I could have happened to have such a hard chipEV, still a new game format for me, so it's quite difficult to look at my own hands and identify the problems.

If i was you i wouldnt be concerned about the cEV from session to session. Its Alot of variance involved over such a low sample. Look at it like every week or so else you might get influenced negative by it.

Also checked out your twitch channel and i would recommend you not to play more then 2 tables when you learning your strategy. Try to focus on every decision instead and when you feel like you handle 2 tables really good, then add a third. ( i Usally Only play 2 tables myself, especially when Im streaming)

Hey man, nice, gl!

@Xanham, thanks man!

Originally posted by totte1992
If i was you i wouldnt be concerned about the cEV from session to session. Its Alot of variance involved over such a low sample. Look at it like every week or so else you might get influenced negative by it.

Also checked out your twitch channel and i would recommend you not to play more then 2 tables when you learning your strategy. Try to focus on every decision instead and when you feel like you handle 2 tables really good, then add a third. ( i Usually Only play 2 tables myself, especially when I'm streaming)

So the reason I'm playing 3 tables is simple, I'm confident on my game plan, and I can handle 3 pretty well (4 though, not so much). Having come from a background of playing on multiple tables in shorthanded cash games (around 12-18), there's a quite easy flow, and most of the actions at least on this limit are pretty straight forward for me, save one or two spots, where the time bank activates, but never times out.

I'm not hard worried about chipEV per session, as I'm aware 100-ish games isn't even considered a sample size in these games, and even on the 160 one of the first day, I was reviewing my hands trying to find spots that I could've improved my game. It won't matter if it's a good or bad day, it's just so I can keep track of my goal, and notice if there's any tilting going on, some hand that was definitely misplayed in a session, those kind of things.

When you look at the original goals, that's why I'm not even caring about setting goals on chipEV, and mostly being honest about my game and the volume that I can play. Yesterday was a straight 100, but I felt I could've done more, I've only stopped because it was getting a bit late, not because I had this: "omg I need to do 100 today".

If I ever feel that the third table, or looking at the end of the session at my graph is affecting my play, I will definitely stop, and review my goals for the daily writing. (;

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we may fall." — GOLDSMITH, Oliver.

What a day! The first half way through I was frustrated, but not really, when I was hitting so many 4x and 6x games, but never managing to snag one of them, losing to several 30% showdowns on heads-up. Had a guy on the stream watching this, even saying that spins weren't good, I disagreed and kept my game. Even with that, I was sure this wouldn't be the last time we'd had this happening.

Mindset was good, until around the 62nd game. I take short breaks every 25 games, and even though I hadn't played halfway through to the next break, I knew I wasn't very focused. I knew my game was good, but I also knew, I wasn't playing my A game, so I took a longer break before coming back to the tables. It's not like they're going anywhere right?