After a down session, and a long one (because I was playing while doing ftp transfers) I’m thinking it’s time to look at some characteristics of my down sessions.
Often I think they start out badly fairly early, but two things I know for sure,

The $ size of the down sessions average larger amounts than the [...]

I have a general propensity toward worrying too much. For me it’s not a big deal most of the time, but unfortunately my 12 year old daughter seems to have inherited that propensity in a different, larger and more debilitating manner. These days she is experiencing a nervous “tic” of needing to go to the [...]

Ooo, the insights are just flying into me these days. Too bad my poker bankroll doesn’t reflect that.
Today I’m thinking about how disciplined poker requires you to be. Even if you know sufficient theory for a given level of play, if you don’t stay within that discipline you lose or at least don’t [...]

When you first start learning about poker it gets drilled into you over and over again; position, position, position. If you are in position, you will have the advantages of position of being last to act, unless you are up against a short stack who shoves all in preflop or calls, then donk shoves the [...]

Slowly, slowly, slowly I’m starting to get more and more of a grasp on the separation between playing your hand based on expected value as separate from what happens afterwards. I’m more familiar with the idea of expected value given the situation and opponent’s range versus what actually is the hand your opponent holds, and [...]

What’s the psychological situation of playing underrolled for the level of poker that you play?

Scared money? Fear of pushing small edges?

I get some of the opposite reaction from myself. When my roll is bigger I have some fear of risking that much money. Yes, when there’s a marginal situation I don’t have problems shipping my [...]

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Occasionally we find ourselves in a situation where we have KK and for whatever reason the thought crosses our mind that we should consider folding it preflop. The most common situation is where a number of factors come together, such as

Reads that indicate players are are very tight,
Initial raise comes from very early position,
Preflop action [...]