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Hello everyone, let me start by introducing myself as this is my first post on this forum. I'm a college student studying business science, I live in Belgium, I'm 24 years old, like to watch football (the European one) and currently try to move up the stakes on pokerstars.
I've been playing poker for over 7 years now, but with huge periods within where I didn't play any hand at all. Recently though, I refound my love for the game and thought about making an extra income from it within a year. I started grinding NL2 zoom 6max and regular 9-mantables with the $16 I had left in my account from the last time I played on Pokerstars.
Within 4 weeks, I upped my bankroll to $200 within 100k hands, with a 7,57 bb/100 for 76k hands of zoom and around 5 bb/100 at regular tables. I always play 4 tables of zoom and because of the ring game table cap, 4 regular tables. I decided to move up the stakes and started playing NL5 because I'm obviously beating NL2 over a longer period of time. The first day at NL5, everything went fine and I won over 10 BI's. The day after, I lost those 10 BI's again due to in my opinion bad variance. No problem, because day three and four, I won 15 BI's, to eventually peak at 282$. Sadly, that's when the nightmare started.
Suddenly I can't almost win with any big hand anymore. I'm not kidding when I tell you that from my last 20 sets, I've lost my money at least 12 times. Let's visualize what I mean with some examples.
This is all zoom 6max. UTG, I raise TT 4 BB's, get called by button.
Flop comes: TxA
I decide to bet the flop for 2/3 the pot. Villain calls
Turn: A
I decide to bet again, but now a potsize bet. Villain calls.
River: K
I bet potsize again, villain shoves, I call, he shows AK.
Another crazy example.
I've TT in SB, open 4 BB's and get called by BB.
Flop: Tcxc5
I bet, bb calls
Turn: 5c
I bet again, villain calls
River: Jc
Now there are 4 clubs on the table, I decide to shove to force maximum pressure on a broadway flush card, villain calls, show JJ.
I had to fold a set of K's on the river to a board: TKJxA
I played this hand very agressively, because of the drawy board on the flop.
I lose set Q's vs set A's on the flop, I get runnered runnered almost all the time, KK lost 5 times in a row to AK. AA get cracked on dry flops vs sets or two pairs.
Today I lost full house vs quads.. Set of 6's got rivered by a set of K's.. These situations keep on happening and at the moment I'm 20 BI's down at 173$. Without tilt, this may have been 17 BI's, but still way too high.
So I'm wondering, I know I've still a lot of leaks in my game, but I'm reading a lot of books and articles, watching training sessions on Youtube, review my hands in HEM3, even apply loads of filters to try to understand which situations to avoid, but this downswing is almost crushing my soul. I've lost all my confidence in my play. Is there maybe someone who would want to help me review my hands to find any leaks in my game? Because I'm afraid to make changes to profitable plays because of these bad luck situations..
Many thanks in advance!
I've been playing poker for over 7 years now, but with huge periods within where I didn't play any hand at all. Recently though, I refound my love for the game and thought about making an extra income from it within a year. I started grinding NL2 zoom 6max and regular 9-mantables with the $16 I had left in my account from the last time I played on Pokerstars.
Within 4 weeks, I upped my bankroll to $200 within 100k hands, with a 7,57 bb/100 for 76k hands of zoom and around 5 bb/100 at regular tables. I always play 4 tables of zoom and because of the ring game table cap, 4 regular tables. I decided to move up the stakes and started playing NL5 because I'm obviously beating NL2 over a longer period of time. The first day at NL5, everything went fine and I won over 10 BI's. The day after, I lost those 10 BI's again due to in my opinion bad variance. No problem, because day three and four, I won 15 BI's, to eventually peak at 282$. Sadly, that's when the nightmare started.
Suddenly I can't almost win with any big hand anymore. I'm not kidding when I tell you that from my last 20 sets, I've lost my money at least 12 times. Let's visualize what I mean with some examples.
This is all zoom 6max. UTG, I raise TT 4 BB's, get called by button.
Flop comes: TxA
I decide to bet the flop for 2/3 the pot. Villain calls
Turn: A
I decide to bet again, but now a potsize bet. Villain calls.
River: K
I bet potsize again, villain shoves, I call, he shows AK.
Another crazy example.
I've TT in SB, open 4 BB's and get called by BB.
Flop: Tcxc5
I bet, bb calls
Turn: 5c
I bet again, villain calls
River: Jc
Now there are 4 clubs on the table, I decide to shove to force maximum pressure on a broadway flush card, villain calls, show JJ.
I had to fold a set of K's on the river to a board: TKJxA
I played this hand very agressively, because of the drawy board on the flop.
I lose set Q's vs set A's on the flop, I get runnered runnered almost all the time, KK lost 5 times in a row to AK. AA get cracked on dry flops vs sets or two pairs.
Today I lost full house vs quads.. Set of 6's got rivered by a set of K's.. These situations keep on happening and at the moment I'm 20 BI's down at 173$. Without tilt, this may have been 17 BI's, but still way too high.
So I'm wondering, I know I've still a lot of leaks in my game, but I'm reading a lot of books and articles, watching training sessions on Youtube, review my hands in HEM3, even apply loads of filters to try to understand which situations to avoid, but this downswing is almost crushing my soul. I've lost all my confidence in my play. Is there maybe someone who would want to help me review my hands to find any leaks in my game? Because I'm afraid to make changes to profitable plays because of these bad luck situations..
Many thanks in advance!