Solid session, but slipped a bit

I had a good session today, finishing up about $2.5k over 3,000 hands. I am a little disappointed though, as I was up over $4k about 2/3 of the way through the session. I made the mistake of peeking at my cashier to see how I was doing for the session. I saw that I was up $4.4k and I was like, "wow! I'm doing really great! Maybe I can have a $5k day!" LOL! Wrong frame of mind after that, as I was not focused on making the correct decisions. I made a few mistakes in big pots after that, and nothing really seemed to go my way, so I lost a bit back from what I had won.

Here's the HEM screenshot for the session: when I peeked at my HEM and cashier my W$WSF stat was sick good, it was like 49%...


Here's the graph:


I don't understand how looking at my account balance can have such an effect on how I play, but it always seems to cause me to have worse results. Maybe it is just a coincidence, but this type of thing has happened often for me and I've heard other players talk about it too. I am really going to work on not looking at any results AT ALL until I'm COMPLETELY done for the day.

Here are a few hands:


Hand #1:

I'm kind of disappointed about this one because we were deepstacked... I don't know if I can get away from it though because this hand happened prior:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3152313

- so I know he floats flops OOP with overcards now...

Then about 20 minutes later this hand happens... villain is 50/21 AF 1.9 over 150 hands, check raises the turn 13% (happened 8 times), turn AF 2.1

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3152237

I don't know if I can find a fold there or not, I'm going to post it on the CR forums and see what everyone says.


Hand #2

The only reason this one is even debatable about that to do is the fact that the villain is so damn passive. He was running at 29/14 AF 1.7 over 761 hands, with a flop AF of 1.6. I really think I made a mistake and should have folded this on the flop... it seems stupid but I don't really beat anything here and he's like never bluffing. I ended up talking myself into shoving because I was like "well, I 3-bet this pre-flop and hit my hand... so I have to go with it." That's not correct logic because I 3-bet for value thinking that I might get CALLED down and get value... once I'm raised I have different information and need to re-evaluate from that point on. I'm going to post this hand as well and see what others think.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3152324


I got stacked two other times, losing coinflips all in pre-flop. I also lost a few big pots due to my still lingering inability to bet/fold the river. I also value owned myself pretty hardcore a few times as well.


Here's a few winning hands:

Hand #3

This hand was pretty LOL, as it was against a 87/43 AF 2.4 over 80 hands. I had lost two hands against him prior to this hand... I had shoved TT on him pre-flop and he called with AJ and hit. Then, the very next hand I picked up AQ but only had 50 bbs so I shoved again and he snapcalled with A5 and won that one too. I got my revenge here!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3152340


Hand #4

Very interesting that this reg doesn't 3-bet KK PF on the button and then is willing to get it in on such a low, connected flop. I like getting it all in with a 97% chance to win!

http://www.pokerhand.org/?3152346


The other winning hands aren't really all that interesting.


Ok so I am trying to make $30k this month, so up to this point I'm +$5.4k. So I'm on pace. There are thirty days in the month, so the math is pretty obvious... if I can do $1k per day or more I'll get there. I'll try my best, but I'll probably have to make more than $1k in a few of the upcoming days to make up for me taking the last weekend of the month off... why am I taking the last weekend of the month off you ask?

BECAUSE DUCK SEASON OPENS!!!!