|
takesix
|
07-30-2006, 06:53 AM
Post subject: Shaking off a bad night
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Flush
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 323
|
|
Poker is a long term game
Poker is a long term game
Poker is a long term game
If I keep saying it enough times, will I start to believe it?
I played well tonight. Very well. Made a lot of what I thought were good folds. Picked off c-bets like it was my job. Disguised a couple hands very well until the river until villain was pot committed.
Basically for 3 hours I was 'feeling it'. I mean really 'feeling it'. I've had streaks when I ran well and made a lot but for the most part I didn't have amazing cards. I did however play as well as I can remember.
And I'm down a half a buy-in.
This isn't a bitching whiny post about how the fish suck out. We know that. I saw some of the greatest shows of fishiness tonight -- a guy all-in preflop like 14 hands in a row, a $98 pot won with at showdown (I play 25NL for reference) with 10 high (and neither had a busted draw! just a raising and re-raising contest), 7/10ths of the table limping at any given time, people calling all-ins with gutshots (and on occasion hitting). It was really entertaining. So for that maybe I'm grateful.
But that doesn't change the fact I'm seriously disappointed and actually pretty upset. So this is the gist of my post:
When you have a "bad" night (be it like mine or the more traditional I lost 10 buy ins because blah blah blah) what do you do to recover? Just go to bed? Walk the dog? Watch TV for an hour and get crackin' again? I ask because I have a tough time shaking these feelings for days at a time, and unless I'm fairly calm and relaxed I play poorly.
So anyone? What do you do to shake it off?
|
|
|
Play for FREE and practice your game at...
Join the FTR Poker Forum to disable these banners and start posting!
|
|
Lukie
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: back with a vengeance
Posts: 3,307
|
|
To be honest, I take it very well (compared to others). But this is just the result of being battle-hardened after playing so many hands. Yes I know that sounds corny, but it's true.
I do remember getting terribly upset over some wild swings (read: bombs, fallouts, etc) I've had in the past. I guess it's just something you learn to cope with over time, as it's just part of being a poker player.
Just focus on doing the right things, ie proper bankroll management, don't tilt, play good, etc., and let the rest take care of themselves. It sounds like you play in some pretty easy games, so while one night is of little significance, if you find you are consistently losing in it, you absolutely must re-evaluate your own play.
|
|
|
|
bigspenda73
|
|
Straight Flush
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pwnsylvania
Posts: 7,546
|
|
Whats a night? What is bad? You said it yourself, poker is long term. There is no short term, there is no night, there is no session, there is no half buy-in. If you do believe you are playing great don't shut it down, keep playing. Why stop when you are playing as well as you think you can play. Maybe this will prove something to you. It can prove either of two things: your downswing will stop and you will win or you are not as good as you think you are and you will keep losing. Either way, if you are playing as good as you can play over a long term and you are losing, its time to revisit the drawing board. We've all played "great" and lost, and we've all played "poorly" and won. Which would you rather do? I know I'd rather win, but that does not mean I want to play poorly. Keep plugging along and for gods' sake, if you are playing great don't stop just because you hit a little downswing.
|
|
|
|
dsmrolla06
|
|
Full House
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: South Bend IN
Posts: 724
|
|
You should stop as soon as you feel tilt coming on. whenever i feel it coming down ill stop and go do something else. If its not playing for a couple days, so be it, but i dotn think you should keep playing when your emotions are getting the best of you. You shouldnt ever play when your not mentally there.
|
|
|
|
jackvance
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,910
|
|
If I run bad I tilt and if I run good I get overconfident. Catch 22 towards blowing money needlessly..
|
|
Sarcasm is your body's natural defense against stupidity
|
|
DaHorror
|
|
Full House
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 616
|
|
I hear that masturbation is therapeutic.
I'm just sayin...
|
|
|
|
Warpe
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Canuckistan
Posts: 3,905
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by DaHorror
I hear that masturbation is therapeutic.
I'm just sayin...
|
I think aok recommends that...
|
|
|
|
jackvance
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,910
|
|
sex is even better
|
|
Sarcasm is your body's natural defense against stupidity
|
|
cardsman1992
|
|
Full House
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Being enjoyed at Jack's Bar since 1397
Posts: 1,065
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jackvance
sex is even better, so I have heard...
|
FYP
|
|
Operation Grind For Education:
Current BR: $10080(04/06/2009) BR Goal: $15000--I LOVE RB!!!
End date: 31aug2009
Current stakes: $100/200NL FR
|
|
KingLizard
|
|
Flush
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 296
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Warpe
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by DaHorror
I hear that masturbation is therapeutic.
I'm just sayin...
|
I think aok recommends that... |
But you can only use 19 hands.
|
|
|
|
apunisher
|
|
Flush
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 398
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by KingLizard
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Warpe
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by DaHorror
I hear that masturbation is therapeutic.
I'm just sayin...
|
I think aok recommends that... |
But you can only use 19 hands. |
rofl
|
|
|
|
Lukie
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: back with a vengeance
Posts: 3,307
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by cardsman1992
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jackvance
sex is even better, so I have heard...
|
FYP |
poty
errm... fypoty?
|
|
|
|
sandstorm
|
|
Flush
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Sweden
Posts: 573
|
|
fyppoty obv
|
|
>3
this is my favourite part of the post
it looks like angry boobs
|
|
jackvance
|
|
4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 2,910
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by cardsman1992
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by jackvance
sex is even better, so I have heard...
|
FYP |
obvious virgin-projection reply!
btw this is cuz I ruined your weddingcake joke right? lol..
|
|
Sarcasm is your body's natural defense against stupidity
|
|
Setzy
|
|
Flush
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 399
|
|
This should very well go in my blog, but it goes with the topic, so why not. I hit my July goal with about a week to go, cruising and feeling pretty good. Then the beats come. I laugh a few off because I'm so "hardened", just like Lukie was saying. 100k hands, I'm a pretty consistent winner...whatever, the fish will donk it all back to me eventually. Next day passes, and the bankroll is lower.
Third day comes, and I lose a little more. Granted I use bankroll management and all this losing is still less than 10% of my bankroll, but I don't like losing! I should be WINNING! So the fourth day comes. I drop about 2 more buyins. Jesus, that's like 11 buyins over four days.
I've played an absolute TON of poker recently. Probably more than is healthy. So I cut it back. After playing something like 2500 hands a day for the past few weeks, I've played about 1k in the past three days. But one day I didn't at all. I went out, I got drunk with some friends, I didn't do a damn thing. Today I screwed around with some of my "play money" I don't consider part of my roll and played 3 $5.50 sngs. (I'm a cash player).
I think this break is really good for me. It's all about the breaks man. As much as we want to be, we aren't machines. We have emotions, and keeping them in check is very +EV.
|
|
Save your stories 'cuz they're all the same..
|
English
Deutsch
Español
Français
Italiano
Nederlands
Pусский
Svenska
05-26-2012, 03:08 PM Australia Legalized Online Poker coming up in next 6 to 12 Months
Linear Mode
