Terrible end of January

You should probably think about choosing a stop loss limit. Losing 13BIs on one session is definitely too much imo. I would have stopped after the first 3 BIs. I need - at least - to rest a bit after such an horrible session. You want to be really sure that you're still playing your A game before coming back.

hmm the fact that you were able to lose that much + get this many horrible beats in 1 day tells me that you're playing somewhere between 8-14 tables.

If this is the case, a lot of very respected players here (including many of your longtime friends) will advise you to cut down the # of tables and focus on improving.

I myself started out 12-16 tabling the microstakes and if you're willing to take my word for it, there's no better choice I've made than cutting down tables!

Stop loss is really smart, it's so hard to notice subtle tilt. Stuff like, you're using a few seconds less on each decisions without even noticing it. Also, on the hands you lose with flush, there's a pair on the board, good idea to sit back, take deep breath, and use all the time you have before making decision, think through his line, what makes sense, what you put him on, and go for there. (Not saying it wasn't a cooler or something you could get away from.) Just saying tilt comes in many forms, and one is wanting to win back your losses. 3-5bi stop loss is great I think.

My 2 cents =]

Gl fighting xD (People in general suck ass at handling a loss like that, and you seem to be doing great.)

I was 6 tabling so yea just a horrible session.

I agree that a paired board is rought when u got a flush but its hard to put a fish (someone who play 75/40 or 80/25) on a range of hand, no wait its easy he can have literraly everything.

I see those player push allin with 2 pair, sets, trips, K flush even top pair all day long so yea just a cooler I guess.

You guys really think about folding a nut flush to a 80/50 fish on a paired board ?

knowing when to quit when you're winning or losing is probably the most important skill i have yet to master up to now haha.
i think ill be winning a lot more and consistently if i knew exactly when to just call it a day when im up or down. if you dont go for SNE or stuff like that i think it should definitely be part of what a poker player should learn when just starting out.

you r lying to urself
you should've quit at -5bi TOPS

On January 29 2010 08:28 XDsCrazy wrote: I was 6 tabling so yea just a horrible session. I agree that a paired board is rought when u got a flush but its hard to put a fish (someone who play 75/40 or 80/25) on a range of hand, no wait its easy he can have literraly everything. I see those player push allin with 2 pair, sets, trips, K flush even top pair all day long so yea just a cooler I guess. You guys really think about folding a nut flush to a 80/50 fish on a paired board ?

Yeah, I used to sum it up as a cooler before as well. But if you notice carefully, those guys comes in a few different forms, they aren't alike. Some of them can do these weird pot pot bluffs, some of them hardly EVER re raise you, if that one for instance was a guy who just calls, and then he raises, it's a fold.

Also a thing bout the timid ones who always call, if they do min re raise pre, it's AA KK, almost every time. First thing I try to notice is "cally or aggro or bluff" and i mark them as a weak player, with one of those on it, vs the bluffy aggro ones i make thin calls, vs the cally ones I make tough laydowns.

Hope any of that made sense lol

On January 29 2010 08:49 whamm! wrote: knowing when to quit when you're winning or losing is probably the most important skill i have yet to master up to now haha. i think ill be winning a lot more and consistently if i knew exactly when to just call it a day when im up or down. if you dont go for SNE or stuff like that i think it should definitely be part of what a poker player should learn when just starting out.

This is absolutely essential.

I often book winning days, I'm never like "oh i'm up and running good i shud keep playing"

and I'm a winning player afaik, I hardly quit when I'm down, but I know when I'm playing bad and thus shud quit a session and/or a player

beating my kids off

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On January 29 2010 11:58 Fayth wrote: I often book winning days, I'm never like "oh i'm up and running good i shud keep playing" and I'm a winning player afaik, I hardly quit when I'm down, but I know when I'm playing bad and thus shud quit a session and/or a player

this, if youre a winner and arent tilted why stop

I instaquit if I feel like I really misplayed one hand.

But idk what I'd do if I'm convinced I plaed the hands fine but just got buttraped

I see 10 coolers in my sessions where in 7 of them I was ahead when the money went in

anoother one the guy played it exactly like a flush where I had a set and he gave me odds to call the turn for a boat and I did boat on the river... guy had a set that turned into quads T_T

so yea 2 cooler out of them I was defenetly beat but like I said I had the nut flush in both hand where the guy was a 70/20 or so fish so can I really grant him credit for a boat on a paired board .... I dont know