Saturday, 15 January 2011

Tilt

I am on tilt. I know I am on tilt because my hands are shaking and I want to punch a door. However I am taking the most positive equity decision I can right now which is to stop playing poker, breath deeply and reflect on my mistakes. I am playing horrible post flop poker because I have been reading lots of strategy books and watching lots of poker. I am excited about poker and this has led to some disgusting fancy plays where I have 'repped a really strong line' into 'an obvious weak hand' etc. I forgot that at the stakes I play this is madness and I am not even qualified to do it anyway. I traditionally play super nitty poker which has always worked for me and stops working once I start being a wally and 'floating' and such like. I was so  pleased with myself recently when I read in a poker magazine about 'reverse' floating' which apparently is the name for a funky move I have been using to peel one off out of position in order to let an aggressive bluffer in position second barrel and then face a check raise on the turn. I should not have been pleased with myself and I am a very bad donkey indeed. I am such a bad donkey because I let my ego run away with itself and my cash is now following it straight down the drain. I need to regroup and remember that the only reason I just busted out of a sit and go is because my 3bet with Kings was called by Q9off suit which miracled the flop. I need to play with these idiots, but only with solid cards and never out of sodding position!

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