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This thread, as well as this post, are quite old now but I thought I would return to it just so that others could see that it's ok to leave the game for a bit and come back. Back in about 2013/2014 I...

Much, much different me these days. Long story short - I've already made it all back and then some by putting the $$ out of my head and just playing poker. I'm playing $3 6-max SNG's and DON's and...

That's exactly where this tilt originated from - Entitlement. It actually just got worse. 6Max SNG, down to the final two, difference between first and second is $12.58 vs $5.40 with a buyin of...

I figured I'd come write in this thread for a minute or two just to cool down because this is the first legitimate tilt I've felt this month. At all. Instead of repeating past mistakes and jumping...

Just to return to this quickly, for anyone who finds themselves in a similar position someday: Don't quit, take a break, or try another game. You're just going to wind up back to playing poker...

My hesitation with that is getting into a simple game of heads up poker with a random I have no information on, you know?

Well, I am playing mostly on two networks right now: WPN and Chico. On Chico, where I've been playing this whole month, they do have 4nl and even 6nl but nobody plays it. Basically, all the games are...

Revisiting the bankroll/moving up discussion: I started the month of March here with $107 on my BetOnline account. I have played nothing but $2NL cash games thus far and about ~5,000 hands worth. I'm...

Had another session just now where the deck started out ICE COLD for me. The whales on BetOnline were in the mood to just call down everything today and kept hitting their overcard pair on the turn...

^ Obviously this is incredibly helpful and I greatly appreciate your time.

I actually had a "rough" session last night. The quotes are used because ...I just didn't tilt. I played pretty well,...

You're absolutely correct. I really shouldn't make this kind of a statement this early on but the level of play @ 2nl has definitely decreased a bit over the last few months on these US facing sites....

Well, that's the thing that poker has forced me to do since I refuse to just quit and walk away: I have had no choice but to totally and completely remove any expectations, entitlement, or emotions...

I hear you but really - I did turn a corner. I really did some deep soul searching here and spent a lot of time figuring this out. I had to put the game in proper perspective. I've had some really,...

I just won 4.5 buyins @ 2nl on BetOnline in about an hour and a half. The competition on there is ridiculously soft. I'm up on BlackChip, crushing BetOnline, and absolutely hating my former self for...

Problem has been pretty much solved. The point here was to make poise and lack of tilt my strong point and I'm definitely headed in that direction.

Without writing a novel: When I was younger, I...

I know some of these are terribly played. When I was a few days removed from this incident and looked back over it I literally facepalmed and shook my head. I never make plays like this when I'm...

In reality, it won't have any effect on anything. It only seems to when I'm in a state of emotional tilt.

I got the flu shortly after my rant and /quit here and then was a little busy wrapping up...

Obviously I spoke too soon here. Things started out as good as could go and, as usual, wound up in the absolutely worst case scenario possible. Once again, for about the third time I've tried to move...

Staying out of limped pots with marginal hands has already saved me more money than I can believe. I see now how in the past I was losing a fortune of money on "bad beats" when the reality was that I...

I just watched a Grinderschool video on combinations and card removal, took a bunch of great notes, and am going to review some ranges on Flopzilla quick before getting back to grinding. Looking...

I just got done with a hugely profitable session where I was implementing the things we're discussing in this thread. I scooped up tons of dead money pre and post flop as a result of raising up 2+...

I don't limp. Ever. I do, however, punish limpers with the 4x+1 2bet when I have cards + position. I'm still working out my cold calling ranges and what not but I'm running at 22/18/8 over 1280 hands...

No. I'm not so green that I sit around flush mining with rags. I didn't think AQo was bad multiway because it's not suited, I just thought that statistically it fails to develop hands fit for...

Thank you for taking the time to write this post. I really do appreciate it. The whole post is hugely informative for me.

I was *not* observing the table for a few oscillations in the past. I...

See, the second paragraph here harps on something I'm starting to learn here about when to call and when to raise. I'm just starting to raise more OOP with hands that I don't think I can play...