Your downswings ever site specific?

[kdog]

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There also seems to be a different culture at different sites were your game has to be adjusted to be able to win.



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Bingo! Owl has the answer. The sites play differently for whatever reasons and your game needs to be adjusted accordingly.

[IronDragon1]

Sometimes but I almost always find that's its psychological more than just normal variance upon further reflection.

So if jumping sites makes you feel better-and more likely to play better-then roll with it but sometimes dealing with that initial adversity/sub-optimal play and coming out from it is a good idea if your bank/psyche can handle it. You'll be better for it in the long run.

[LargeCents]

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When you go into a major downswing, do you ever find it to be site specific? Can you fire up another site and do well, but when you go back to the first site you're still in a downswing?

Just curious because I am experiencing that right now. Signed up with UB and have been on a huge downswing since the first hand. I am 0-16 in their SNGs ranging from $6-$22. I am down 100BB at the $1/$2 NL. I fire up Stars, and I was ITM in 6-13. The 6-max NL is like an ATM machine for me. I go back to UB to try and finish clearing the bonus (which will apparently take me all year) and I go 0-7 again in SNGs and slaughtered at the ring games.

At Stars I get paid off constantly, but at UB I always seem to be up against a monster. The last 6 UB SNGs I busted out of were either full house beaten by quads twice, flush beat my trips, etc etc.

Just wondering if jumping sites during a downswing has helped anyone, or does the bad luck/cards follow you wherever you go until it's over?

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I have the same problem. I think it can be something about the software. Some sites' software just rubs me the wrong way and it kinda gets under my skin, maybe aggravating a mini-tilt. I just got done playing over at Paradise, and for some reason I kept getting lagged off my hand. I hadn't played at Paradise for a long time, so I was playing micro limits while reading emails, etc. Anyway, I don't think I'll be playing much Paradise anytime soon. The place just bugs me now. lol

Ironically, UB kinda rubs me the right way. I just like the feel of their software. At first I didn't, but I started playing there and got hooked. Also, I used to love pokerroom, but now I'm sick of that place, I got lagged off too many hands and just quit there. Seems like their software is getting slower and slower. Anyway.

Long story short, if a site is bugging you, just switch. There's no reason to play somewhere if it's bugging you, regardless of the reasons.

[kiddj]

Empire was my downswing site. I have NEVER had a winning deposit there. I'm pretty sure I have never won at Party either. It's pretty frustrating when I know the play there is soft and have never been able to capitalize on it.

I think it may stem from my first online real $ deposit @ Party. I obviously lost. Maybe those stupid, fake people at the table subconsciously remind me of that failure. (It pissed me off so much I didn't play any more for about a year: I was CONVINCED the site was rigged!)

I now believe they wern't rigged, I just sucked. But I still can't seem to win there so I don't play there. My time is better invested at the sites where my confidence is high.

[cadillac1234]

It seems whenever I load at a new site, I get killed for the first month. It happened at Party now it's happening at PokerStars.

Normal annoying stuff like a long string of 4:1 shots busting two pair or trips, 99 all-in against 77 and a 7 spiking, limping 89s in the small blind and the BB raises...

[siccjay]

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limping 89s in the small blind and the BB raises...

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Uhm....ok

[Nigel]

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limping 89s in the small blind and the BB raises...

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Uhm....ok

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[Rockfish]

Interesting you mention UB.

I have been absolutely killing the Party skins 1/2 6-max, and had previously been doing OK at UB at both 2/4 full and 1/2 6-max.

For a brief 2-3 hour period at UB 6-max over the last two days, I can't get a hand to stand up even with extra starch. The 6-max games over that brief period have been very aggressive to the point where I know I'm being pushed off winners. The problem is, I can't tell when. When that happens, when you're not making many good hands and when you lose the monsters, you lose big. I've had a -100BB stretch in the last 600-100 hands.

I cashed out out of frustration even though I have something close to $400 in uncleared bonus there. It may never get cleared.

[A-Baum]

I think I'm cashing out of there as well, down a couple hundred bucks and leaving $130+ in bonus money there. It tough to clear more than a couple bucks an hour in bonus, and it's simply not worth it to get my bankroll steamrolled like that. I've never experienced anything like it.

My hole cards there are so bad I can predict them. I'll get a Q first and then say to myself "2" and I'll get a duece. It's not hard when one of your hole cards is always a 2 or a 3.

Back to Stars it is. I was just trying to build a bankroll via bonuswhoring but UB put the kybosh on that plan.

[Nigel]

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I think I'm cashing out of there as well, down a couple hundred bucks and leaving $130+ in bonus money there. It tough to clear more than a couple bucks an hour in bonus, and it's simply not worth it to get my bankroll steamrolled like that. I've never experienced anything like it.

My hole cards there are so bad I can predict them. I'll get a Q first and then say to myself "2" and I'll get a duece. It's not hard when one of your hole cards is always a 2 or a 3.

Back to Stars it is. I was just trying to build a bankroll via bonuswhoring but UB put the kybosh on that plan.

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From my last 500 hands at UB - 12 times T2o , 9 times 92o, 9 times Q4o, 7 times 73o, etc... Any AK, suited or not, ZERO times.

No straights, no flushes, no 3 of a kind. 1 losing full house. 1 losing AA. Shown down 5 winning hands TOTAL in those 500. Fun place!

Too bad they're only one of a few sites spreading bigger games, cause they sure deal some fugly cards with that whacky RNG. You wonder why they don't make hand history info easy to get?

Nigel