Ok, so I'm tearing my hair out a little bit. Let me present 2 graphs, all hands since September....





Wow, player 1 is pretty hot eh? 8.6 BB/100 at midstakes, pretty good.

Player 2- just give up son, poker's not for you.

You can probably guess, they're both me. The first graph is the hands I've played on Cereus, my home since forever and a day. The second graph is on that graveyard of souls, Full Tilt Poker. To put it mildly, I just can't win a fucking bean on there.

I don't know why.

*Wonders Aloud*

I think the player pool's slightly better, but not that much better. It's really weird, I just *feel* totally different on there. I don't like the way it doesn't have unique avatars. I don't like the timebank. I don't like that I don't know every player inside out. I don't like paranoia about my videos being watched (as an aside, what % of FTP regs are leggo members, hmm). I don't like the rampant palpable ego war that seems to exist.

Honestly, I think most of it is down to not knowing the players. The other night I emerged from a standard $4.8k losing session on FT, loaded up UB ('cos my FT account was busto, again), played for 7 hours till 10am and won $6.7k back. While playing, I realised how much my actions are dicated by just knowing how regs are going to react. Nothing I can really explain, or even realise I'm doing until I thought about it, just that my instincts kick in and tell me not to bet vs player x, or quadruple barrel vs person Y.

What to do? Well, I need to study the players more I suppose. I've tried, I started building a database. Looking at individual hands though doesn't give me enough of a *feel* of how they play, and how they react to me. What I really need, is software that will take all the hands I have on a certain player, and replay them over 4 tables or something.

Boywonder says he studies a reg a day or something like that. How, when he grinds 27 hours a day I'm not sure, but I really need to get up to speed. Hmm.

*End Wonders Aloud*

Even though it's costing me a ton, 'professional pride' (if you like) means that I'm not prepared to give up. Frankly, I'm not happy making another midstakes video on there until I have 50k consecutive hands at a 6BB winrate or something like that. Until then, enjoy my micro series......

dan