PROBLEMS

1. I am calling reraises with QKs and other marginal crap.
2. I default to FPS to get value, this does not work.
3. I am not reevaluating ranges on the turn and river when new information is presented.
4. I need to work on when I double barrel, and how often I need to do it.
5. I need to realize when I am playing someone that does not fold, I have no fold equity.
6. I am continuing to lose.

I TILTED TONIGHT

I ended the month down $800 and have a bad start on this one. I played poorly tonight and went on tilt for the first time in a while. I have a lesson tomorrow and hope to have a strong month.

DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

And it continues.

DOWNSWING

I played a little aggro when I sat down today without getting a feel for the tables and payed for it. I then got some fucked up hands, set over set, set vs rivered quads, and so on. I did not tilt though, and feel good about my play after the coolers. It is also a big step to still post while losing, enjoy the stats.

Edit: While I played well to the best of my knowledge, I was not concentrating as much as I could of. I surfed the web and chatted while playing, neither helped the situation.

FEELING GOOD STILL

I am playing what appears to be very good poker although I have not been running great. This is a period where I would normally trend down but I am going up slightly instead. I am getting paid off more and feel that I am the irritater not the irritated, which is nice. I posted 3 hands on CR mid stakes and would like some feed back from you guys if you have the time or inclination.

Poker goes in phases and right now I am in a discovery phase. I am ready to learn and apply myself more than I have been for a while.

FIRST LESSON TONIGHT

Had a good first lesson although not to many interesting spots came up. I learned how to take advantage of poker stove better, learned about meta game a little, feel better about hand ranges, and my opening and calling ranges. I am looking forward to the next lesson and am very happy with my coach.

One interesting spot that came up was in a 3 bet pot on a flop that I checked through, and then double barreled the turn and river. Given the way he played his hand it did not seem he would have a big enough hand to call a river bet. At the same time we could have a T from the way the hand played out. If anyone would care to comment on this hand please feel free.
wmmcl: $203.00
Hero: $261.10
NigelWinters: $289.50
john0014: $201.00

[b]Preflop:[/b] Hero is dealt A:diamond: 8:diamond: (4 Players)
[i]2 folds[/i], wmmcl raises to $6.00, Hero raises to $22.60, wmmcl calls $16.60

[b]Flop:[/b] ($45.20) J:heart: T:club: Q:club: (2 Players)
wmmcl checks, Hero checks

[b]Turn:[/b] ($45.20) J:heart: T:club: Q:club: 3:heart: (2 Players)
wmmcl checks, Hero bets $33.90, wmmcl calls $33.90

[b]River:[/b] ($113) J:heart: T:club: Q:club: 3:heart: T:diamond: (2 Players)
wmmcl checks, Hero bets $79.10, wmmcl???

Pot Size: $271.20 ($2 Rake)

PLAYED AGGRO

I felt like playing aggro and did OK I made one very bad call though. I will post my monthly stats as always and also stats for just yesterday.

LIVE GAMES ARE CAKE

Live play is allot easier thats for sure but I still made mistakes that killed my win rate. Overall I ended up $1400 over 24 hours at 2/5 which is an hourly rate of almost $60. I take out three glaring errors I made and my rate increases to $85hr. I was playing very few hands and suspect my VPIP was not over 10% this did not seem to matter to most people at the table however. I found it impossible to get anyone to fold and only bluffed rarely and mostly on the river when they could not call looking for cards. The bet sizing was absurd I will not waste your time describing all the ridiculousness. I met up with a fellow AP player "The1Wizard who was good enough to take advantage of a huge mistake I made netting him around $500 of my money. I am in the land of donks and I am siting here playing with someone who kills me online. Talk about poor game selection.

IPOD UPDATE COMPLETE

I am leaving in 2 hours and will not be updating for a couple days.

PARANOIA

I am going to work on reducing my paranoia, I just need to trust people more. I make calls I justify one way or another and it is killing my game. It sucks to build a stack just to give it back due to some crack pot reason I think up.