GGGOOOAAALLLL!!!

if you want to find your leaks lower the amount of tables you play... but at those limits... i don't see you finding too many leaks since everyone is just so awfully bad.

meh, my biggest leak is calling when I know I'm beat - overall my inability to fold. I can practice that at any stake.

Good luck.

hm, perhaps some people have a faster/better learning ability in general


..it's a different way to say that perhaps I'm retarded

btw myth has had some problems too lately,it's not that variance can't hit you hard if you're good

I'm telling you,poker ain't ez

On May 21 2008 15:11 lebowski wrote: I'm telling you,poker ain't ez

that's definitely true =)

Yeah I feel bad saying it but myth having the downswing gave me hope, lol.

what good will not looking at your bankroll do? Is it that looking at it will cause you some kind of psychological harm or really bad feeling?

I think your issue is more psychological than anything... It seems you are putting a shitload of pressure on yourself to really succeed. I don't know if you work, or what kind of financial situation you might have but the sooner you remove your emotional connection to your roll the more effective of a player you'll become.

Here's a long story that has some similarities and relevancy to yours, imho:

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I like how you chose BOB as the example - I've watched the entire thing about 4 times. It's the best ww2 shit by far.

Yeah yesterday I started feeling like I needed to have a reboot of my mind. I realized how much calmer I used to be. That's part of why I'm doing the lower stakes mass multi-tabling. It's allowing me to get used to losing money and not caring again. Not looking at the BR is cause I'm trying to refocus myself on only paying attention to how I play and not how much I won/lost.

If I could recommend a book, k2o4...I believe The Poker Mindset would be a great read for you. (edit after typing this: it's kinda long, lol. Soz.)

Perhaps you've read it, and if you have, I want to just highlight the part about goal-setting / realistic perceptions about poker. It stresses beyond any other point, not to set goals that are out of your direct control. It's a complicated topic in some ways, and very, very counter-intuitive to most people, but so crystal clear if you take the time to think it through.

Basically, goals like "I want x $ by y time" or "playing at x limit by y time" (which is essentially the same goal) or even "play x hands by y time" can actually hinder your growth as a poker player. These goals are definitely out of your control, because nobody knows what will happen. If you go on a bad run, you don't reach your goal, and for the most part, it could from no fault of your own. Then you go on tilt, or nitpick at parts of your game trying to change stuff up. Your "mentality goes to shit" (I laughed when you said that like months back in that free pokerzion 50nl 6max lesson. rofflz), and there's no telling what might happen from there.

I really like the last example, because "play x hands by y time" has been a real problem for me. You essentially force yourself to keep playing at times when you probably shouldn't. I switched from stars to party because they have insanely frequent bonuses. So I end up cashing out 1/2 my roll, waiting for the bonus, then grinding out a mindless game learning very little with a shitty winrate, and all of my profits are off the bonus (which end up being like, WAY less than if I played without the bonus and was careful with everything: the MOST IMPORTANT being your session lengths/detecting tilt).

I'm just a 10nl/25nl grinder now (jumping up and down with my ultra-conservative br reqs...never actually "taking a shot". >.>, and I think psychologically, I've learned a lot about handling swings/just being calm when shit happens. The biggest downside of a lot of this is if you aren't careful, it flips and you concentrate on the negative so often it's disgusting. I'm 100% sure my nittiness (br management is just one thing) is slowing me down, and that's what I feel I really need to work on. It's no sot much I'm risk-adverse, I life for being objective about things and seeing them as they are, but sometimes your mind will just interpret stuff in a certain way and you're left to wonder if you're right about it or not.



Anyway, I don't have enough experience to know how much of this is really truthful, useful advice, but there's my 2 cents. Haven't played any poker in about a week, which has been kinda getting on my nerves (school/bad time management is a big lifeleak for me) >.>

I think not thinking about your BR is a great level detachment, keep it up. But you can take it father/refine the idea. Set a br-requirement for 100nl, and before you *start* every session, check if you have enough (review hhs before this so it doesn't affect your thinking, if you think that is needed). If you do have enough, take your shot. I think skill-wise, from the little I've seen, you can probably beat it.

Don't let the variance get you down. I mean, say MidaiN had a bad month at 100nl moving up to 200 or something, maybe something happened in his life unrelated to his skill at poker = a few weeks off -> coming back completely out of his element, or he was unlucky enough to sit down with some good regs at some bad tables the first few times he was taking shots and lost a good % of his br. He's still the same person with the same natural skill, but mentally, he must have felt the crunch there. Let's say he didn't, and you are, right now. All in the realm of possibility, no?