Hello my friend. I hope you're doing well brother.
This comment above is exactly the big difference between a pro and amateur. An amature will look at everything and talk about the bad luck they are experiencing. A professional will review and look at the hands they lost to see if they made a mistake that cost them or if they could have played the hand differently so they can avoid losing in the same situation in the future.
Hello brother how are you so long???
I hope that both you and your family are very well.
Thank God we are fine.
Thank you for your comment, which is a great reality that happens to every player who is starting out, therefore it happened to us at some point.
Look, right now I got knocked out of the CC MTT. Many times I play MTTs for fun and logically to try to win it, but in truth, for quite some time now I have been dedicating myself to NL2 microlimit cash and now trying NL5 little by little, which will be my next level.
I am doing a course with a coach and advice from a mental coach, in which they make you see all these types of situations.
In other words, to explain it better, you can play a hand and you can have a badbeat against you, the issue is to see how you played that hand in the future. Because you should also take into account the badbeats in favor.
I will cite 2 examples.
The first is a badbeat in favor, a normal cooler with QQ and the villain with AA allin and hit the set. Who can say that he played that hand badly??? nobody. I was lucky, as I could, due to a higher percentage of possibilities, he had won it. But in the long run, of course, this hand will be won more times by villain, but it will not interfere too much in the future because the coolers do not give themselves too much. It is within the rules of the game of poker, sometimes you win, other times you lose.
But the 2nd example is different. In a badbeat against. I play AA a 3 bet raise and in BB a character with 68o pays me. The question is...did I play that hand well??? The answer is yes. The second is.....do the villain pay well??? the answer is no. Consequently, that day I got the 100 BB box but.....how many times in the long run will I get that BB box playing that way??? The answer is, 80% of the time I will win. In other words, in 100 boxes of 2 dollars I will win 160 dollars and the villain playing that way will have to deposit 160 dollars to continue playing.
It is not very difficult to understand, what happens, and that is where the mental coach begins to influence, is knowing how to understand the variance or the bad streaks, and above all knowing how to reflect or take the time to keep your hand and review it to see in that you could have been wrong or if you were not wrong, continue the same path until the variance leans in your favor.
I lost 70 dollars one night in NL5 paying about 20 allins in which, if I remember correctly, in 3 after reviewing the hand I realized that it was a mistake. And in another 9 I was able to play in another way to reduce the variance, that is, that the negative effect of the hand translates into play and not showdown luck, for example, normal plays by me AKs and the villain AQo and click Q in showdown. Here the variance is greatly reduced by not going allin but by just calling and seeing the flop at least.
To finish, I learned by studying and advising myself that in poker not everything is bad luck, and not everything is the opponent is bad at playing, and not everything is as it seems. There is a whole platform behind it, which in order to obtain positive results you must respect and strive every day to grow in this beautiful game that we are all passionate about.
Today, thank God, I have a microlimit surplus of US$3.63 a day in a total of approximately 1500 average hands, which is giving me an average of 12 to 13 BBs every 100 hands. When the general average is 5 to 7 BBs per 100 hands in a regular player, I really feel very happy that the progress is continuous.
Well brother
@Luvepoker, my best wishes that you are very well, and happy that you can help this beautiful forum to improve day by day.
Blessings and a huge hug from your brother Carlos