I am tired of not being as good a cash game player as I want to be, I cannot understand why I keep losing at cash games but I can generally win in tourneys. For personal reason I want to stop playing as late at night, I need to get my fat ass in shape.

I have once again re-evaluated my play. I am losing big pots while winning small ones.

Here are my issues.

• I play too many hands out of position especially in 6 max games.
• I call too much with hands that need to hit a flop to win, if I play them I need to 3 bet and take control of the hand.
• My bet sizing is off, I either bet too little or too much.
  • Balugawhale stated in a Deuces Cracked video, that “we win our money from value betting, not bluff catching”.
• I have not had a multi-street plans when playing hands.
• I go on auto-pilot to often and only play my cards.

My plan…

• I am dropping my play to $10 NL. To move up I have to play 100K hands and win a minimum of $500. I need to work on the above issues.
• I will play 100K to 200K at each level before I even think about moving up, assuming I am beating the game.
• Poker Tracker has a nifty feature that I have not been using as much as I should, you can mark a hand for review, and this way you do not have to search for hands that need your attention.
• My long term plan is to play larger samples of hands at each level, I need to get to a positive number at every level, that is going to be a trick at some of the levels.

I figure I will continue to play SNG’s for fun, and also play the cash games, if it takes me 3 or more months to get 100K of hands in then so be it. I am going to have fun with it.

I have whined about these issues before, its time to fix them or quit. I need to drop in level because I do not have to 25+ buy in’s for the $25 level in my bankroll, yet. The ego has to leave my game, leaving the confidence to make the correct play.

I will be updating regularly

-Loser

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loser64 is a regular contributor to PokerSoup, you can find the rest of his rants about his path to micro-stakes stardom on his blog at loser64.blogspot.com.