Quote Originally Posted by fade177
My logic goes too far a lot.
Your logic is failing a lot. That's because logic is not synonymous with emotion. You're allowing these elements to mingle and confuse. The two are apples and oranges, oil and water. I know your emotional if you mention impatience, or even make a post like this. Find a goal to differentiate these elements. Impatience and emotion are illogical by nature. An impatient or emotional person who allows it to carry over to the table can NOT win at poker longterm. Successful poker players make decisions based on information. They rarely tilt, because they are never results oriented. They make a decision, and live with it. If that decision was wrong, they make it a goal to NOT make the same mistake next time in a simlar situation. They don't get pissed. They just accept it as part of the learning process. Becoming a winning player is to lose. This is hard on you if you're not mentally prepared. You need to learn lessons, and you will lose money in the learning. If you get angry, you'll continue to make the same mistakes. Instead of making a change, you're throwing a chair against that virtual wall in your mind. This needs to stop. This is a cold game. It's about not making mistakes and forcing others to make them. Be cold. Be calculated. Make the better decisions.

Try an experiment. Go to the smallest stakes you can ($2), see a lot of flops for a fair price, and put all your money in when your hand is beating the board. Blow off some steam. Forget the reads. Just put it in with the best of it over and over again at a stakes level that can't damage you psychologically. Train yourself to be mathmatically sound before you start attempting to cheat math with tight reads. You're just not advanced enough to ride your reads yet. Play your cards before you play the player. At the low stakes, playing your cards is all that is required.

I think you need to gain perspective on how often your hand is the best, and how often you're beat. I think you'll be surprised to find out you're ahead a lot if you're a smart guy.