TomBrooks
02-24-2005, 10:35 PM
Party and Skins .5/1 Limit Hold'Em
I have begun sensing I may have some kind of mental barrier to winning more than a certain amount of money in a given session.
I have been playing 4 months, the last three at Party and Skins .5/1. I always start with the standard $25 buy in. When I'm doing well on a particular table, I rarely seem to get my stack above $50. This seems a little odd to me, because sometimes I don't have much trouble getting up into this ballpark, but then I often seem to stay around there, or often my stack will go back and forth in the $35-50 range. If I am beating the table nicely up to that point, why shouldn't I continue to beat it?
It could be new players come into the game and change it, but I don't think thats a decisive factor in many cases. Maybe when players seeing me winning and only showing good cards they tend to tighten up when I'm in the hand. I haven't specifically noticed that but I'm often 2-tabling and I'm barely good enough to mind my own cards and not skilled enough to get a lot of detailed reads on two tables at once.
I have been sensing the possibility of two internal factors. I don't feel strongly about either one - they are more like suspicions as I try to become aware of what's happening.
1. I may be loosening up when I'm well ahead - taking more chances and gambling more - thinking "What the heck, I'm playing with their money now."
2. I might be feeling a little guilty or wanting to be a nice guy, as if taking more of the other players money wouldn't be nice, or maybe they won't like me if I win too much.
Does anybody ever feel anything like that? Or has anyone found that in a winning session they usually tend to win a certain amount but rarely go beyond that?
=TomBk
PS: As I write this, I'm up $50 to a $75 stack on the table I'm playing. I've only gotten to this point in 3% of the 192 winning sessions I've had. Maybe thinking and writing about it is helping me to make some kind of correction. (Or maybe it's a coincidence.)
I have begun sensing I may have some kind of mental barrier to winning more than a certain amount of money in a given session.
I have been playing 4 months, the last three at Party and Skins .5/1. I always start with the standard $25 buy in. When I'm doing well on a particular table, I rarely seem to get my stack above $50. This seems a little odd to me, because sometimes I don't have much trouble getting up into this ballpark, but then I often seem to stay around there, or often my stack will go back and forth in the $35-50 range. If I am beating the table nicely up to that point, why shouldn't I continue to beat it?
It could be new players come into the game and change it, but I don't think thats a decisive factor in many cases. Maybe when players seeing me winning and only showing good cards they tend to tighten up when I'm in the hand. I haven't specifically noticed that but I'm often 2-tabling and I'm barely good enough to mind my own cards and not skilled enough to get a lot of detailed reads on two tables at once.
I have been sensing the possibility of two internal factors. I don't feel strongly about either one - they are more like suspicions as I try to become aware of what's happening.
1. I may be loosening up when I'm well ahead - taking more chances and gambling more - thinking "What the heck, I'm playing with their money now."
2. I might be feeling a little guilty or wanting to be a nice guy, as if taking more of the other players money wouldn't be nice, or maybe they won't like me if I win too much.
Does anybody ever feel anything like that? Or has anyone found that in a winning session they usually tend to win a certain amount but rarely go beyond that?
=TomBk
PS: As I write this, I'm up $50 to a $75 stack on the table I'm playing. I've only gotten to this point in 3% of the 192 winning sessions I've had. Maybe thinking and writing about it is helping me to make some kind of correction. (Or maybe it's a coincidence.)