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 Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider
Keep it up BC - it's interesting to get this kind of insight into someone elses frustrations and losing sessions. I know a lot of the things you've said about spewing 10 buyins in ~3k hands resonate with me - I've had some sessions like that recently. One was -6BI in 1000 hands. It is liable to make you feel like the unluckiest poker player in the world, but it helps to realise other people feel the same too - we all know it's illogical and exceedingly unlikely to be true, but still.
Thanks for your support Boris. I was wondering the other day if anybody would be relieved to read that not everybody is smashing the games and progressing quickly. I think it’s all too easy to read the blogs of pros and see practically variance free graphs and assume that anything less than that is failure. The reality is that most players are losers unless they’re willing to put the time in.
Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider
Perhaps you're playing just fine. It's also important to realise that just because you play _terrible_ sometimes doesn't mean you're not getting better, I've watched your progress and seen you consistently beating limits I can't get traction at over a big enough sample to know that you've definitely put in the work and improved - you're going to have to suck up the bad times along with the good.
Definitely not playing fine during the ridiculous sessions, but I appreciate the sentiment! Sometimes I look at the hand histories and just have no idea what I was thinking. Variance is far bigger than most people can comprehend though, unless you are technically AND mentally far superior to the majority at the stake you are playing.
Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider
I'm not sure I believe you're getting "significantly worse" - what I think might be happening is what happened to me the last few sessions - I've had winning sessions, but my play feels fucking atrocious compared to a short ~1k hand session I played about a week back when I just felt great, was thinking clearly and generally played the best poker I can ever remember playing. Whenever you have played your best ever, there's going to be a period following it when you have to, inevitably, go backwards - two steps forward and one back, but it doesn't mean the overall trend isn't towards improvement, it's just the psychological/human performance side of variance.
I think us Brits are typically hard on ourselves if we make errors or don’t perform to the best of our ability constantly. That’s just not realistic though and as long as we are learning from our mistakes as we go, then we’ll do just fine.
Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider
Good luck at the tables. I hope this turns around for you soon.
Thanks – gl too.
Originally Posted by BorisTheSpider
LOL, I agree - I thnk embezzling and sexual deviancy are preferable hobbies to mention during a job application.
They seemed fine with my other interests of booze, birds and football..
Definitely agree with Griff that it would only be appropriate at a trading-type interview. In fact, I know that is true as I had an interview 7-8 years ago for a trainee derivatives trading job and one of the guys talked a lot about his love for poker. Really strange interview beyond that too, as I talked sport for 4 hours with three different interviewers and was asked questions like “what’s 23 squared?” every so often. I ended up turning the job down, but still think about what life would have been like from time-to-time if I’d taken it.
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