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[MusashiStyle]

bastian, in fact you're always gonna end up taking some terrible beats at 25 and 50nl and every level. if you want to get your confidence up I would suggest taking a break and moving down to say 10nl. remember that depending on your playing style it's not that uncommon to lose 5-10 buy ins just due to variance in even a single session.

[Bastian]

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bastian, in fact you're always gonna end up taking some terrible beats at 25 and 50nl and every level. if you want to get your confidence up I would suggest taking a break and moving down to say 10nl. remember that depending on your playing style it's not that uncommon to lose 5-10 buy ins just due to variance in even a single session.

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Maybe I should have pointed out the fact that I'm not new to this game and I know what the hell variance is.

I guess the best way to explain it is like this:

I have a good friend who is a high stakes player and pretty well known here. We'd often vent to each other sharing bad beats or w/e. And we all know when we share this stuff the other person always thinks "standard", its normal, because it is, right?

WRONG!

In this case, when I ran really bad, I felt I couldn't get it through to my friend like, "look man, this is not you're normal downswing, its really bad".

He finally watched me 8 table a session one day, and afterwards he actually said "wow, man I really feel sorry for you".

lol. Best way I could put it man.

[Jzo19]

i was playing at a couple of your tables bastian and u seem pretty solid ( i got you at 19/16 over about 3k hands ) but you took some bad beats , but there was one spot i thought u could have gotten away from , i'll try to find the hand and post it ,,

[Pigslice]

hmmm other 2
2nd hand is ok i guess, not sure what other line to take, maybe a c/c on river and let him bluff off more - depeonds on opponent
hand 3, you gotta stick a lot more in on the turn unless you have a pretty damn good read for not doing so
try to isolate and get the flush draws out of there or make them pay
i usually raise pf with pps on the button, but thats nl2 and youre gonna be building a pretty big pot with a lot of callers and you dont hit your set most of the time, not sure what the standard play for that is

[bozzer]

Bastian,

1. join the session review club (see post on front page or pm me with details of stakes and # hands played).

2. cautionary note re. your highstakes player - aggro plays that are necessary to not get exploited at higher stakes (and wch are also a lot of fun [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) are often spewy down here.

[Fiksdal]

So I just rickrolled Neteller support...

Read about it in BBV.

[corsakh]

God 50NL players are terrible..

[MrWooster]

Hi all, just to let everyone know that I am currently sitting in the gutshot in London, just pumped out 5BI on their online cardroom so hopefully the luck will last. Might play a bit of £25PL this afternoon, never played live before so any last minute tips would be great, and differnces between PL and NL..... £25 = $50 is a bit above my BR so I hope not to loose too much [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Happy grinding

[tms]

This was funny.

[Shizzle12345]

guys what are ur thoughts on big flushes when the board is paired? I mean when bad players (all kinds of bad players, but not the ones with very low aggr factor) start raising u when the board is paired and u hold lets say Queen high flush or bettter..

Iv lost ALOT on these situations, and also won alot, maybe im breaking even. But everytime i fold a flush here some idiots shows a bluff or when its 3 way, the winner has middle pair or straight or whatever, and whne i get all my money in, it seems they always got a boat.

Usually this is to 45/12/2 players or something, not the good ones.