this is the most tilting session I've ever watched. Props to you for not losing it. sometimes you can't tell if you're getting repeatedly shit luck or it's just in your head. this definitely proves that sometimes the session is definitely against you lmao. i empathize, good job keeping your cool
@@BluffaloSamwhat is the mentality after a session like this? Go back the next day? Take a break? do you see monsters everywhere in the next session after?
Thanks for sharing this session, where the "every hand" thing really pays off. I beat myself up over big losing sessions but they happen to all of us and seeing someone else's from the outside really helps remind me that it's just part of the game. It's great to look back and identify areas where maybe you didn't do your best and work on those the next time, and of course remember that the long-term graph is what really shows your results, not one big night.
BRO! I LOVE THIS VIDEO AND CONTENT!!! I obliterated my entire savings account in about 5 months! I'm literally living out of my car. My wife has left, took the kids and half of everything. Had to give her the house. But I SWEAR 4 betting 35 suited pre-flop is +EV.... one of these days.
Sat down last night at the local 1/2 game. In 45 minutes I was up 680. Smashing every flop, hitting every semi bluff on the turn or river and getting paid . And then it was like this session. Every good hand wiffed the flop. All my thin value hands were out pipped just slightly. All my bluffs got snap called by hands I never put OPP on. Ended up down 3 buy ins over the next 5 hours, just couldn’t get anything going. I know how tilting this can be! Love your vlogs Sam, they’ve helped me tremendously! Keep grinding 😊
Your play seemed slightly read heavy, but what do I know? You play a very thoughtful game, always looking for value, and you take a lot of things into consideration. Love your content.
It's live poker, I use a theoretical background when the spots are close/I don't have reads. But if I pick up anything I'm willing to just go with the read.
This is literally how’s it’s been 50% of my sessions the last several months. Constantly running into top of range, garbage card distribution, bad situational luck, not getting bluffs through when you know exactly what opponent has, etc. So yea I know it’s tilting af, glad to see you vlogging again mate, any trips planned soon?
Wow....what a swing....I've watched several of your windows and you are a GOOD player...you know what you're doing and things still go that far south.....Doubt if I could ever afford to try and make a living at Poker...
I’ve found that once I lose two buyins it’s worth taking a break, grabbing some food, and then sitting down at a new table. Since you profit more than I do by bluffing into capped ranges it is even more important to not have a losing image since if you do opponents will call you down lighter. Maybe wouldn’t have helped much for the most part here though since you were often running into top of range (or over top of what should be range).
Oh wow, and here I thought I was *running bad* This video puts it in perspective. Sometimes it's not your day. It's just a game. We'll get back out there and run good!
Sam this happens to me when I played in place outside Dallas, feel like when playing rake game vs timed game, people tend to be tighter and bluff less cause when you played less, you paid rake less. Therefore i have to tighten up my range，fold more and bluff more (people overfold more). I could be totally wrong but wanna share my two cents. Nice content, and hope u run better for upcoming sessions
QdQ: You said villain bluffed with T4dd. That's not a bluff. It's a protection bet with outs to a strong hand. AKo: After you check the back door spade turn, what nut hands do you end up with on the river? K9dd: You bluffed the flop and the turn J, then rivered a mediocre hand. Why value own yourself? You did it again with the AJ. Brutal deck.
Gotta learn the hard way that when you play live poker you can't try finding balance with turn check raises in deepstack 3BP unless you are lucky enough to find me as your opponent. Vast majority of live players are incapable of making big folds so it's infinitely better to just never ever bluff them when they take strong lines. It's really burning money and it hurts me to watch. I don't mind calling KQs preflop vs the 3bet at this depth, but once we face a bet on the flop the most profitable thing is to do math and try to realize equity.
Did you try table changing at all this session? I know it sounds stupid but a table change for me while card dead kind of feels like a reset button. Plus this table didnt seem that great anyways
Always makes me chuckle when on the last hand the opponent supposedly “makes a mistake” by betting $50 because it favors your range and then you go stack off a million dollars so who made the mistake again?
most of the regs are just limp-call with anything try to see the flop and they will stick with any pair at reasonable cost , that will make any fancy play like bluffing or combo draw less profitable in the long run .
Sam, your biggest problem is being too tight. You’re a great calculative player, but you need to expand your ranges and betting sizing. You’d boost your game drastically. I’m a pro cash player, if you want to discuss the game let me know.
Are you tightening your opening ranges at loose tables like these? Seems like you raised a few mediocre hands when facing limps, at a table that overcalls a lot. I suppose raising loose against limpers can be +EV, but I'd think it depends on having a high likelihood of isolating. Obviously idk how the table played outside these hands. Anyway, love your videos. Incredibly informative. Please keep it up.
Eh, I can drop some very marginal openings like offsuit low-medium connectors, and maybe some weaker suited Qx/Jx. But in games that aren't very 3bet heavy I'm still going to be opening 54s/22/A2s UTG. You're just not getting punished often enough for doing this, and we're quite deep.
This session was like when i played against the ultra nits at 5z. I am very disappointed in your play though. No merge betting 7s with Qd7d? Also that last hand KdQd, should have probably been a call at that tiny amount, i think you had great odds to draw out.
I think you were playing a little too heads-up to get paid off, for example when everyone folded to the thinnest of value bets when you flopped a flush. Or when you didn’t bet the flop before turning a flush which then everyone folded to. I like some of the river bluffs you tried, just unfortunate to run into trips and boats so much. Respect for putting this vid out regardless
I feel like ever since COVID, the players at major (local) casinos are playing MUCH MUCH tighter than before. Guess the major reason is due to many new people learnt poker during COVID but that just makes the casino poker less fun to me. I can't afford a higher stake either so I'd just have to drop out playing low stake cash at casino at all 🤕
I think last hand double xr might not be the best line, also solvers goes for high freq 4b OOP with KQs, not sure if that is applicable in 2/5 tight reg games.
You were way over bluffing early in the session. After you got stacked trying to bluff, you should have slowed down the aggression. Just play more straight up and adjust your bets/sizing. It's what I do when a session starts off horrible like that, and it usually works. Eventually, I hit a hand, and people still think I'm trying to bluff and call me off only to get stacked, and I make my money back.
Wasn’t paying attention left another comment I deleted asking if you were home. What’s your Favourite casino to play in Van? Mine used to be Cascades it looks awful nowadays. Been to all of them except Parq or whatever it is called. Vancouver always seemed like a real fast game. Tough to make money at, there is many good players there good action Sometimes though. I think I’d try parq if I was down there again sometime
@@BluffaloSam never been there either. Just the old regulars from a decade ago. Rooting for you Sammy. I’m over in Calgary now used to play some Vancouver games. Haha love your vlog you can’t win them all. I just remember most Vancouver games were tough. Good luck man.
Last hand with KQs, can’t you just call on turn? On a draw heavy board, ppl just psych themselves to call and if they lose, they can say “bad beat” or “cooler”
Going for Value at 8 minutes? That is a bluff catcher at best. I think that's the mistake, this should be in your check calling range for sure when you get there.
Sure, you have to get called by better sometimes when you go for thin value. But if the guy barely wants to call with a hand that is way better than yours, your thin value is probably too thin.
I cant help but think if you had just followed your principles in your new to poker video you released a few weeks ago you would have ended up with a much better outcome.
A lot of punting in this video.. most especially in the first 10 minutes of the video and that was 30 minutes of your first session -1800 . really underestimating your opponents and not really considering their range at the time?
