Rooting for you, Mark! Thank you for your honesty and vulnerability. I appreciate the mental game conversations and guidance.

Keep ya head up Mark! Great to see Pete's approval on the hand histories! Keep on

Really promising session. It seems like Mark has increased his knowledge to the point where he is aware of enough pros/cons of different options that it is becoming harder to sort them out. First step is awareness, then the hard part of determining which information is most relevant when many options exist begins. It is pretty natural to start doubting ourselves more at that stage. That doubt never goes away as we become more aware of minutiae but we get better at sorting it out and being comfortable with uncertainty. Glad to see the series continues.

Ugh this is why poker is so hard to learn. You get punished for playing well and rewarded for playing terrible often enough. Also, knowing a little theory without knowing how to apply it is dangerous because you can talk yourself into blunders (i know i can). Glad you got some validation Mark I feel like you're on the verge of a massive upswing.

Whoop whoop Mark is back. Already missed him.🥳

Man...these first 6 mins hit home. 1 year late to the party but it's good to hear you guys thoughts on the matter. Thank you

Thank you, Mark and Pete - great content! Hope the downswing will be over soon and we will get to see a nice winning graph. Keep going!

It's quite impossible to be a winning player when your red line is so consistently downwards. I'm looking forwards to the next episode on red-line fixing.

Next episode will be fireeeee

Great stuff!

In that KK hand, very few villains want to expose their stack to being snapped by any queen x. Also he called the flop and he called the turn big bet, and there are no draws available. So he has to be calling with some form of made hand or double-floating air, and then checking that air with the intention of check raise bluffing, attempting to move you off of the class of hands that are value betting the river but aren't a queen, and that is fucking absurd, since if you have a pocket pair worse than queens you're likely just checking back the river. So the combination of ranging you exactly and *also* double-floating enough stuff to end up with something that he can bluff with in this manner is just vanishingly rare, the dude just holds a queen. He probably had Qjs or QTs or some such hand with a backdoor that floated the flop and then checked the river to protect his range and now he has the nuts.

Coincidence this video comes up cause I been doing the same stuff lately, just getting it in with AK on flops and losing buy ins. This is when you stop playing for a few days/weeks and come back refreshed

Hey Pete been loving this series so far, Just wondering in hand one you say that Mark won't have AQ and KQ just wondering if this is an exploitable adjust Vs population as gtowizard Mixes AQ and KQ and AQs seems like a slam dunk 4bet Vs a BB polar 3betting range?

Thanks guys, great episode as usual 👍 The babbon impersonations need some work though!

Just saw this today. Very interesting series would be great to see if you can turn Mark around and into a winning player. Hoping for the best😁. Is it zoom or standard you play mark?

What’s the app that Mark mentioned playing on at the top of the video?

In the second hand, how bad is calling with the Qs, because a few of his bluffs have Qs: KsQs, QsJs (on flop have oesfd) then he can have Qs9s that has bsfd. Given that you knock out bluffs is it a fold?

Ha, "I just want to shove it in all the time..." one of the daily life struggles of being a man :D

Vilain had AK vs Mark's AQ ?

How do we know it's a downswing or just losing a poker strategy?

Mark needs to stop playing like a gigantic call station nit, be prepared to lose lots and transition into a more redline type style. This type of redline with this type of overall passive stationy player is very very difficult to win with. Best of luck on your progress.

I've been getting crushed the last couple weeks now... Went from $580 to $500 then $560 to $500 then $530 to $500 again lol Just lost a full stack to a guy who flats JTo EP vs MP 3B w/77, he calls triple barrel with 2nd pair bad kicker. Luckily I nearly always just stop playing immediately. Mark played that AKo hand pretty well I thought, didn't have to shove the turn but villain should not have been calling.

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