Hey guys.

I am a poker player that plays at 50nl/100nl. I am very anomous, like most grinders at this level and I do want to keep it this way. I like the fact that I know, that nobody knows me.

With all the commotion about Dogishead and Girah, I just think I am making a +EV decision with nobody telling my screenname. It seems -EV to post a hand and let people see your leaks and maybe exploit it when playing vs you.

So my screenname at Ipoker, is not the same as my screenname at leggopoker.

I have studied for a long time, but poker started to make sense when I stopped studying, got a great coach and just kept playing and playing. It seems to me that its more about playing, then understanding the 3 bet concept. I do understand polarized/depolarized. I understand the type of hands I can use etc etc .... but without any feel of the game flow/dynamics it doesn't mean shit.

Has this guy been tilting and is he now more prone to call my 3-bets? Have I already been 3-betting a lot? Does it matter I have been 3-betting a lot or is this guy multi tabling and does he just don't care?

Image, game flow/table dynamics is something you develop by playing. There is a time to study, but I do that by reviewing my hands, talking to people and talking to my coach.

Once in a while I check a video from Aejones (or another coach) just to see if I am thinking correct in most cases. I do this by pausing the video before any decision is made, say what I would do and press play.

Lately I have gone thru a bit of rough patch. I was down 7 buy ins in 7 days of 100nl, then I got more stuck at 50nl, and so this week I lost 1k. I mean, it happens, but I do need to vent.

Its interesting to see how much less I would lose when you keep away from tilt. If I would be playing my a-game constantly, even a downsing like I had would be atleast 2-4 bi's less. But at some point I just start playing worse then I can, which will make the variance even higher because my winrate drops.

To me, its time to quit, take a small break, play with the dog and get back to it. I don't think it's optimal to quit for weeks if you are running bad. You want to get thru the downswing, not walking away from it to come back rusty and play rusty + having a downswing. That sounds like an optimal strategy for losing a lot of buy-ins.

In this blog, I am just going to ramble a bit about how I feel and think about poker. It's good to have a poker diary they say, so why not share it with the world? Or atleast, with leggopoker?

Bye