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Detroit poker in this video we're gonna
be talking about down swings running bad
this is a topic that I think a lot of
people can relate to and they can be
very tough to get through so before we
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so for this first example I'm just gonna
give you a real quick backstory the last
two or three weeks we've basically been
breaking even you know like when you
flop sets and you make flushes and
things like that and you get your
opponent to put all their money in and
you're 70% 80% 90% favorite and those
are usually the spots where you make a
lot of money well unfortunately for the
past few weeks we've been losing the
majority of spots like that so that
being said definitely starting to
accumulate some negative emotion we're
sitting at this table in Detroit it's
$2/$5 No Limit game and we are on the
button we have $850 in our stack and we
get del five four of Hearts this table
is pretty loose and by the time the
action reaches us there is two limbers
decided to over limp with two five four
hearts and regular in the small blind
decides to raise up to $30 we do have
some information about this guy we
played a little bit with him in the
weeks leading up to this and both the
limbers make a call for 30 and we make
the call
and close the action so we're going off
to the flop four ways and flop comes
pretty good king queen six all hearts so
not only did we flop a flush we have 60
percent of a straight flush as well
that's pretty cool right so immediately
when the flop comes out small blind
looks at his whole cards and he places a
bet for $50 and pretty quickly
both olympus fold out and the extra ton
offs just really quick pretty valuable
piece of information about this guy i
don't know if it's just versus me or
versus everyone but he just hates to
fold and if he has ace of hearts he
would just never fold here he is playing
approximately four hundred seventy-five
dollars on this flop
I think given the D read that this guy
just hates to fold and he's like a
lookup artist I think the best play here
is probably just an offensive over bet
just jammed for $475 and let's this guy
figure it out I do expect him to call if
he has honey tarts in his hand which is
what I think real time so we now it's
all in and we move a stack of green over
the line indicating an all-in and our
opponent takes another look at his whole
cards and he hesitates for maybe 10 or
15 seconds and he announces call and he
starts moving his chips over the line so
we get two pots sorted out and I
remember when the dealer's sorting the
pot out I'm just thinking to myself like
hold hold like being hold this time hold
you know that's what I'm thinking so
we're going off to the river heads up
and all the action is closed and the
dealer puts turn out it is a ten of
Hearts and the river is a two of clubs
so we table our hand and our opponent
quickly tables ace of hearts nine of
spades
in this session we're already off to a
bad start
we are proximately six hours into a
session to 5-game in Detroit Michigan
and basically we've just been bleeding
all night long these games are really
loose and we just haven't been able to
make a hand or get anything going it's
nothing that hasn't happened before it's
just standard stuff if you play poker
all the time you're gonna have sessions
like this so I being said sitting there
munching on some chicken wings and I
told the dealer to deal me out and he
did oblige us for one hand however on
the second chicken wings hand he pitches
this cards probably out of habit I mean
I totally understand and this guy in
early position just moves in first into
the pot for $85 and he's been getting
beat up and I think he just lost a big
hand so the action folds to us and
sitting there with $800 in the hijack
and we looked down at a couple of aces
so well this is pretty cool like good
aces and I'm just kind of thing on the
first thought is like okay like I guess
I'll just call and I would be delighted
if someone else comes into this pot and
or re-raises me so we make the call for
85 however no one else comes into the
pot it's probably obvious that I must
have a good hand everyone on the table
is aware that I just told the dealer not
to deal me in and they probably know
that I'm not gonna call $85 when I'm
eating with a shitty hand so that being
said we're going off to flop turn and
River heads up and all the action is
closed and as soon as the action does
close the dude in early musician tables
his hand and he puts out pocket nines
and we give him the bad news and we put
our pocket aces on the table and I mean
this guy's a wreck player but he starts
moaning about like how terrible his
night he's been going and of course oh
it's just my luck and you know my first
thoughts are to be honest I was a little
irritated
we're hearing this because like dude
like I've been running like shit for
weeks if you dude at the same time like
I understand like the guy was getting
beat up and he's a wreck player and I
bite my tongue I don't say anything I'm
just like dude you might be a lot
here like I've been running pretty bad
too so don't call yourself out yet
you're like I just say something nice to
the guy and dealer puts out the flop and
his queen queen five rainbow the turn
comes eight nine and the river comes a
seven so this dude is going to win this
pot with the full house and I've thought
in a moment like that's kind of sick you
know I told this guy to deal with me out
and like he deals me in and then we get
aces and it's 80% and then you know it's
not it's eighty-five dollars over to
five games nothing it's not a big deal
like the money's not a big deal I just
you know it just adds a little bit more
frustration to the pile and whatever I'm
not gonna go tilt over hand like this
not gonna make me like play bad or
anything like that it's just kind of
just another bee sting so that being
said I just want to let you know like
these things are gonna happen and they
may drag on for a long long time and it
may be for way more than $85 and I do
have another example to go over so let's
get into that right now
all right so this next spot this from a
different day different casino to five
no-limit hold'em kind of similar story
this is like Friday night and I've been
kind of getting beat up a little bit
it's a Friday and for lack of a better
term just Friday night it's just nothing
but fuckery like people just playing
bullshit hands and like you pretty much
have to make hands to make money on
Fridays and Saturdays and really lose
games I mean the games are really great
but if you you know if you can't make
hands it's gonna you know you're gonna
bleed and this is totally par for the
course there's nothing I haven't dealt
with you know a thousand times before
but you know you do get a little bit
frustrated and not to mention that this
is the same downswing I'm accumulating
emotion just from running bad and just
kind of got some frustration just
lingering over me you know a little bit
of negative mind frame I'm really trying
to fight it so that being said we are in
the small blind
we have eight hundred dollar stack and
we get to king jacket clubs and hijack
and the button both limpin obviously
this looks super weak by both of them
they're playing similar stack sizes to
us they both cover us slightly and
there's this guy in the big blind who's
basically playing every hand and he's
super loose and he's been getting lucky
in a lot of spots and he's got a lot of
money so definitely gonna be raised
enough to scheme jacket clubs
so we bump it up to 30 and what do you
know the guy in the big blank calls and
the hijacking the button both fold we're
gonna go off the flop heads up versus
ass dude and he covers by a bunch so the
flop comes pretty interesting comes 10 9
8 with one club rainbow
so we flop an open ender and one end of
it is to the stone nuts we're just gonna
start out with a bet and just go from
there so we place a bet for $50 and
doing a big blind like basically instant
calls us so okay that's fine
we've seen him do this a bunch before
bottom pair gut shot whatever you know
it's not surprising this guy's calling
this flop so we're going off to the turn
heads up and turn comes a four of clubs
so now we improve to a flush draw to go
with our open ender and I'm not taking
my foot off the gas against this guy I
feel we have quite a bit of equity and
it is possible that he might fold like
some weak weaker parts
range so we just decided to place
another bet 410 pretty quickly big blank
calls again not quite as quickly as on
the flop but within 5 seconds he makes
call from 1:10 so I remember thinking
myself like okay Club Queen like
something so we're going off to the
river heads up and the river comes
another four so we break out yeah we're
sitting here on this river against his
calling station and we have King high
and I mean I do contemplate like just
hitting them with like 300 $400 bet but
I just don't think that this guy is ever
gonna fold you know if he called twice
he probably as a 10 that's what it looks
like to me he has a 10 and if he has a
10 he's just never folding we just check
and decide to let this guy win and he
checks back and I table my hand right
away and the dude turns over King 10 off
suit so it's whatever maybe maybe I play
it could have played it better you could
always play hand a little bit better I
guess
you know I remember just being kind of
frustrated but quickly I catch myself
I'm like dude snap out of it all right
so I'm sure you want to know how can you
deal with these things how can you get
used to it
point number one this is gonna happen to
you literally thousands and thousands of
times bad beats and just running like
shit you're just going to have to get
used to it you're gonna have to accept
it you're gonna have to embrace it this
is just part of the game that you're
going to have to get used to there's
there's just no way to sugarcoat it so
number two I'm my bullet point list is
build a callus pain threshold basically
you're going to have to develop mental
toughness it's it's it's that simple
this is no different than if you were
working a job and you know somebody at
work did something to piss you off or
you didn't get a promotion you were you
know you were sure you're gonna get or
whatever like I want to bring up this
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so the third point you got to realize
this shit happens to everyone
if right now you're watching this video
because you're running terrible and you
feel like you're cursed there's nothing
you can do about it it's out of your
control so like I mean we're human
beings were emotional but at the same
time it's illogical to get upset about
something like this like you can't
control the actions of your opponent and
you can't control what cards you put on
the table all you can control is your
decisions the goal is you show up every
single day you make good decisions in
the long term if you make better
decisions than your opponents do and you
get your money and good you will win the
money just keep showing up keep putting
the time in and things will happen for
you if you're playing good but you know
like bonus tip here number 4 you got to
be able to realize if you're playing bad
cuz that's gonna happen to you start
tilting and just you know punting off
money you're gonna fail every single
time until you get a handle on
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