What's up ninjas?

So I've been frustrated in a pretty epic way lately. I'm trying to keep things in context and recognize that my emotional attachment to the results is a negative thing. BIG UPS to StudentCaine for his excellent survey of emotional issues related to poker. I'm looking forward to cracking into the epic 8 part tilt series soon now that I checked out his shortcourse on poker and the brain. Such good stuff man.

But the fact remains that in the last two weeks I've gone from a few thousand +EV to distinctly -EV. It happened in a very short time and it correlated with getting coolered, failing to hit draws, losing every coinflip and traditional suckouts. I also have just been put in some vise like skull crushing situations in which I have probably played decently, but sub optimally. One example comes to mind;

I 3b OOP with AJhh to a cutoff minraise at nl600 and the flop comes A55r. I cbet villain calls. The turn comes Qo. I elect to check and the villain makes a PSB. River comes an inconsequential blank, I check and villain shoves. I expect villains value range to be exactly AQ and rarely 45/56s when he elects to call preflop and an extremely occasional QQ so I assume he often wants to barrel me off a chop, or just plain get me to fold something. I called and he flipped the AQ. It's just a tough fucking spot.

Running bad in so many ways, in turn, really knocked me off balance and caused me to make some rather senseless call downs in spots where my hand looked good superficially but was pretty crushed vs realistic ranges. Level 1 thinking (-)FTW, as it were. I've also played just mediocre in general, I think. It's easy to rip everyone's faces off when you're running hot, but it's so much harder to maintain the A game when running like AIDS riddled dog shit. Oh what a metaphor, my former professors would be proud.

So going forward I'm just going to try to study my balls off, continue to work on emotional control and get TOO good and turn this ship back in the right direction.

Also, I'll be listening to this song before and during literally every session. It makes me want to crack skulls and break balls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ibu9Ei6n4

"Bitch IMMA PICK THE WORLD UP AND DROP IT ON YOUR FUCKIN HEAD!"