All of a sudden losing money at $100 NL
I have built my bankroll from $50 to $4,000 in a year just playing MTT's and NL Ring. I have always stuck to the high end (conservative) end of bankroll rules. Didnt move up to $100 NL until I had 3k and was consistently killing 50NL.
I went from 3k to 4k fast playing 100NL. Some ups and downs but mostly up. Cashed out 1k to do but some stuff and go on a little trip. Built it back to 3400. Ok so from that point, it seems I started playing break even only poker. For 3 months I had no significant change in bankroll. I would lose some, gain some. then I started losing in ring game but a 4th place finish on Pacific got $400 back in the roll and I was back to about 3200. Now in the last few days, I have lost another 400 playing 100NL. So I really have lost $800 playing 100nl, with my one good MTT showing covering half the losses.
I got Poker Tracker and loaded up a bunch of hand histories and have it running while I played this weekend. What I am seeing is that my wins seem to be small amounts and my losses seem to be real big. That seems to be the trend. One loss was my KK losing to QQ on the river ($-120), which I have no problem with. I am mainly worried about the trend of small wins to big losses. Is there anything in general that this indicates about my play?
i will post some HH's too, but i am hoping for some insight into this one thing I see about my stats. Thanks.
Re: All of a sudden losing money at $100 NL
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Originally Posted by MNMP2
I have built my bankroll from $50 to $4,000 in a year just playing MTT's and NL Ring. I have always stuck to the high end (conservative) end of bankroll rules. Didnt move up to $100 NL until I had 3k and was consistently killing 50NL.
I went from 3k to 4k fast playing 100NL. Some ups and downs but mostly up. Cashed out 1k to do but some stuff and go on a little trip. Built it back to 3400. Ok so from that point, it seems I started playing break even only poker. For 3 months I had no significant change in bankroll. I would lose some, gain some. then I started losing in ring game but a 4th place finish on Pacific got $400 back in the roll and I was back to about 3200. Now in the last few days, I have lost another 400 playing 100NL. So I really have lost $800 playing 100nl, with my one good MTT showing covering half the losses.
I got Poker Tracker and loaded up a bunch of hand histories and have it running while I played this weekend. What I am seeing is that my wins seem to be small amounts and my losses seem to be real big. That seems to be the trend. One loss was my KK losing to QQ on the river ($-120), which I have no problem with. I am mainly worried about the trend of small wins to big losses. Is there anything in general that this indicates about my play?
i will post some HH's too, but i am hoping for some insight into this one thing I see about my stats. Thanks.
It happens. I moved up to $400 at about $20k (it's not so much i need 50 buyins but I didn't think I had the skill. I started winning a bit, but then I broke even for like a month when I had no time (uni, dance teaching, going away on trips, etc.) and then I started to dip and dropped 3 buy-ins. I know it's only 3 but i'm not used to losing $1200. I tried moving down to 200, up for a bit, I was just so restless. Trying to chase my losses. I took a break for a while 'cos I was so busy anyway.
Then empire poker reload came up and I spent it lagging the NL50 tables (there weren't any higher stakes). I won like 10 buy ins over 2000 hands (50BB/100? LOL), even with some bad beats (and some suckouts I admit) cleared my bonus and went back to 200NL. And now I'm crushing it again. At anything >100NL you really need to have the confidence in your ability and to be playing your "A" game.
Try something to jolt yourself out of your slumber. Don't move up and down one level. Move to 25NL. Or play 6 max instead of ring or vice versa. Or do a bit of fixed limit or SNGs if you're familiar with it. Whatever; if you're in a rut don't just stay there.