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k2o4 United States. May 15 2008 14:30. Posts 4803

I've taken 4 days off from poker, spent 2 of those reformatting my comp which gave me time without internet (nice to have the vacation) and got some perspective. I've played nearly every day since April 1st and I've been on a mission to get up to NL200. It was going well till I hit a bit of a downswing last week and to deal with it I tried mass multi-tabling, which just made things worse. What I should have done was take the 4 day break right away and saved some money.

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The biggest problem is that I lost focus on playing perfect poker and instead focused on making money. I decided that I wanted to pull out 1.5k in May and then anything over that would be BR building for NL200. I hit 3k and figured everytime I hit 3.5k (or got close) that I would pull out money to drop me back to 3k. I figured a 30 BI BR was good enough. But the problem was with this new strategy I was so focused on making money that any money lost threw me into all sorts of tilt. It wasn't obvious monkey tilt, but my game got slightly worse and worse each time it happened until I was suddenly in monkey tilt without realizing it.

I play best when I don't pay any attention to how much I've won or lost and don't care about the money. Then I just have fun playing poker and aim to make make the right choice every time a decision comes up. I think that's the key to good poker but it's so easy to lose it, especially when you get confident and feel you don't have to pay as much attention since you pwn these fish.

I'm a bit nervous cause I left poker on a losing note and my gut has the association that playing poker is painful cause I just lose money. But I gotta kick that feeling to the side and remember the joy of the game and the fact that I normally win money so that's an extra feeling of pleasure I will get if I get back into the grind-train.

Life is such a fucking roller coaster, eh?

Wish me luck!

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Bejamin1 Canada. May 15 2008 14:58. Posts 7042

Know how ya feel, good luck mate.

Sorry dude he Jason Bourned me. -Johnny Drama

SKoT United States. May 15 2008 15:12. Posts 1768

good luck out there, let me know how the tables are

21drful United States. May 15 2008 15:22. Posts 400

good luck bruh

Fuck the bullshit

ggplz Sweden. May 15 2008 15:28. Posts 16784

its not easy at first ;p

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k2o4 United States. May 15 2008 15:37. Posts 4803

On May 15 2008 14:28 ggplz wrote:
its not easy at first ;p

haha so true... I get bad at shit so quickly when I take a break. When I first sat with 4 tables I had a hard time processing all the info - I had to spend some time thinking and just getting used to it all. With the stats out there as well as seeing the action that had happened, who's in the hand, all that basic shit, I was a bit confused for the first 5 minutes. Then it all made sense again.

Tables are crazy soft. I started on NL25 to get used to things again, then moved back to NL50 for a bit. Did ok though ran bad in a few all-ins. As far as how I played I'm pretty happy with it. Stuck to a 350 hand session cause I find that's about the point where I start losing focus and drive and get lazy, so I'd rather do 3-5 sessions like that in a day than 1 long 1k session.

Thanks for the support guys ^^

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