Bad run..

youre probably playing badly, regardless of whether youre winning or losing.

you may not want to hear that but believe me if you listen its better than any sympathy you might get.

On March 03 2011 00:57 K3Nyy wrote: have been playing the 0.1/0.2 games on PS for about a a few months now. I've been doing pretty well lately, never really having a losing session and earned about 20~ dollars

do you play 1 hand per session or what?

anyway, gl, just try to get better and take the losses like a man, as long as your playing good it shouldnt bug you

Your hand sample is super small based on PTR (not 100% accurate). You need to realize that to see long term profits it can take tens of thousands of hands until they become apparent (sometimes hundreds of thousands, but probably not at NL 2 cause your winrate should be able to be relatively high). It may seem like a ridiculous amount of hands to play but the fact of the matter is that poker variance is a lot higher than people think. You will have weeks when you feel like you can never lose and then in one day you bust your entire roll by either tilting or running worse than you've ever run in your life. It's usually a little bit of both.

You pretty much have 3 options

1. Get out of poker now while you still have a chance. If you get really into it you pretty much sell part of your soul to the game (pretty big exaggeration but you get the point)
2. Focus more on your life and use poker as a recreational activity to get away from things. Don't worry about the money and play for the fun.
3. Put some serious time and effort into getting better. Best way is to post some hands, get advice, and constantly look over your sessions to see if you made some mistakes.

You may think the stakes are extremely easy which they are if you get better. The biggest thing you probably need to work on is your patience. Poker players don't become successful overnight. Sometimes it takes months or even years just to beat one stake. Additionally, people can practice and practice but some will just never have the ability to analyze at the highest levels of the game. Keep in mind that poker is a long-run skill edge game, not immediate.

When you take a bad beat, you need to train yourself to get into the mindset of being happy if you we're ahead because in the long run making decisions when you are ahead will make you money. Instead of criticizing and making fun of how bad everyone is (which they are), praise them and support them on how bad they play. Eventually, they will make some retarded mistake and you will take full advantage of them IN THE LONG RUN.

Hope this helps. Good luck with whatever you decide.

If you're losing 10+ buyin's in a single session you should probably create some sort of stop loss, an amount you decide when to quit with. Be honest with yourself when you start losing, is it bad beats? Is it bad play? Can you continue to play well even if it is just bad beats? If you feel yourself getting irritated to the point that you start making unusual plays, like raising K4o utg to get back at the fish who sucked out with 82s then it's probably time for a break. If you feel your temper rising you might not handle it as well as you think you do and it will affect your play.

boohoo you lost a couple fucking dollars. its gonna take you more than $50 to learn the game

It's less about the absolute value of the money and more about what it represents at super micros, losing is crappy in general and when you are learning the game from scratch it does feel bad even if the money is really nothing at all. Just learn as much as you can, it will eventually come together if you work at it (and you won't even know what to work on particularly at the start, so just read everything that you can and you should figure out at least WHAT you want to work on eventually).