Crazy session

This month was pretty normal so far for me. Every month I have about 3-5 days in witch I basicly lose all pots bigger than 30bb. I used to solve this by using a 4 buyin stop-loss. Today, because I had a 89VPIP deep staked whale at 100NL, I decided to continue and ignore my stop-loss and 1 table with the whale. When I run bad and tilt, I don't spew or do anything crazy(sometimes I make a bad call with AA or don't fold a set and that is pretty mutch how I tilt). Today however was a disaster.... It is definetly one of my 5 worst sessions ever. Here is the graph and some of the big hands:

In this hand villain was 74/57/50 and I made a non-standard 4bet using a weird sizing because the whale would have called it with any 2 cards and the other regs would have 4bet themselfs if they had a hand with witch they where prepared to go preflop...Sometimes the whales fold a hand like A2 to a allin but they don't to an other sizing... I think that from now on I will only raise pot or allin to avoid situations like this one....

villain is 40/15/13 in this hand... Its pretty standard. I could have went all in preflop with it

The rest of the hands are versus a 89/24/18 whale that totally owned me in this session... He was calling down regs with 4th pair in 400bb pots but I could simply not win a hand versus him...

Here the player that raised me on the turn was a very tight regular and so I restricted his range to exactly 99, 78 and a few combinations of 2 pair (I am sure that he would have folded all of these hands to my shove on the turn)... I did not raise the turn, so that the whale would not be scared and have a chance to fold his weak pair hands.

1 million hand mark passed this year

I passed a couple of days ago, the 1million hand mark for this year. Unfortunetly, this year I put in a smaller volume than I would have wanted, mostly because short term bad luck and tilt make me play less. Looking at the graph of year, however, I realise that I really should not have cared about run-bad and variance and just focused on putting more volume in.

My goals for the next million hands are:
- to play more than 30% of my volume at 100-200NL
- to play at least 150,000 hands/month
- to continue improving my game
- to learn to play sng's and possibly go for sne next year playing 100-200NL (FR+CAP) and sng's.

Here is the graph for this year in bb's:

  

0 respect for my raises lately... I need to play higher limits

In the last 3 months I started to play a bit tighter, in order to adjust to the tables with 5+ shortstackers. But some regs have 0 respect for tight ranges.  I look at these hands but can't understand what they where thinking... I hope they keep spewing in the future....:)

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players

Ameeneo (MP2): $58.67
AlinMC (CO): $50.00
Hero (BTN): $50.00
TournStar (SB): $50.00                       - 15/12/2
Paula St (BB): $70.79
Muraveika (UTG): $20.95
randomGO2win (UTG+1): $53.81
jennypie215 (UTG+2): $42.25           - 54/24/19
neoplatonic (MP1): $134.30

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with Q♦ Q♣
2 folds, jennypie215 raises to $1, neoplatonic raises to $2, 2 folds, Hero calls $2, TournStar calls $1.75, 1 fold, jennypie215 raises to $3, neoplatonic calls $1, Hero raises to $14.50, TournStar calls $12.50, jennypie215 raises to $26, 1 fold, Hero raises to $50 all in, TournStar calls $35.50 all in, jennypie215 calls $16.25 all in

Flop: ($145.75) 3♥ A♣ 7♥ (3 players - 3 are all in)

Turn: ($145.75) A♦ (3 players - 3 are all in)

River: ($145.75) 3♠ (3 players - 3 are all in)

Final Pot: $145.75
Hero shows Q♦ Q♣ (two pair, Aces and Queens)
TournStar shows T♣ J♣ (two pair, Aces and Threes)
jennypie215 shows K♥ T♦ (two pair, Aces and Threes)
Hero wins $15.50
Hero wins $127.75
(Rake: $2.50)

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Poker Stars $0.50/$1 No Limit Hold'em $0.20 Ante - 9 players

*krasav4ik* (UTG+2): $480.14
Hero (MP1): $127.66
LiftGrind (MP2): $884.27         - 20/14/3
cb4mvp (CO): $100.00            - 18/14/5
OriQ9s (BTN): $271.69
joeyjoejr (SB): $1047.65
El Tacuba (BB): $301.50
Themutsnuts1 (UTG): $250.00
Rakeback24/7 (UTG+1): $377.24

Pre Flop: ($3.30) Hero is MP1 with A♣ Q♦
1 fold, Rakeback24/7 raises to $3.10, 1 fold, Hero calls $3.10, LiftGrind calls $3.10, cb4mvp calls $3.10, OriQ9s calls $3.10, joeyjoejr raises to $25, El Tacuba calls $24, Rakeback24/7 calls $21.90, Hero raises to $127.46 all in, LiftGrind calls $124.36, cb4mvp calls $96.70 all in, 4 folds

Flop: ($434.62) 9♥ 4♥ 5♥ (3 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: ($434.62) 3♣ (3 players - 2 are all in)

River: ($434.62) 6♣ (3 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: $434.62
Hero shows A♣ Q♦ (high card Ace)
LiftGrind shows 8♠ 8♦ (a pair of Eights)
cb4mvp shows A♥ J♥ (a flush, Ace high)
LiftGrind wins $55.32
cb4mvp wins $376.50
(Rake: $2.80)