Bad day

Didn't go well today. I went against my December plan and had to peek at my $ stat in HEM and the cashier to see how badly I got crushed. Finished down $4.2k. Most of the loss was from losing 5 buyins at $5/10 NL. I didn't table select well enough. The tables I was at, most of time, weren't really worth sitting at. There wasn't a huge fish at the table all the time, like there had been in my previous $5/10 NL sessions. Most of the players were regs, with a few mediocre ones, a few bad regs, and one ridiculously good reg.

The ridiculously good reg gave me a shit ton of trouble. He has an insane style where he pretty much plays 26/20, c-bets a ton, nearly auto-double barrels, never folds to 3-bets, and doesn't ever fold if you try to bluff him. It's an impossible style to play against if you never hit any flops or get any hands, like what was happening to me vs him. I checked him out on tableratings.com and he's up $200k over 100,000 hands. I lost a stack to him on a dumb pure bluff I pulled against him before I knew he didn't have a fold button and lost way to many medium pots to him.

I just wasn't on the top of my game today. I made far too many mistakes and wasted a stack or two that I didn't have to. I value owned myself for a stack when I had an overpair and a fish took a weird line with turned trips.

I also got coolered like my 2nd hand of the session AA vs QQ AIPF, he spiked a Queen. That didn't start things out well at all. I find that I really struggle if I have a poor start... I think maybe my confidence gets shot down a bit and I don't play as aggressively as I should.

Back to even for the month... I am going to do my best to not look at the cashier from here on out.

I played like a n00b today.