I'm Afraid To Play

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After I made the OP, I took a shower, read the first few responses, played some more poker and quickly won 2 more buy-ins. woot.

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Results still don't matter.

[DyessMan89]

You have to think in the long-term. Each seassion is just one lone session ... you are going to play hundreds, thousands, or millions of them in your poker career. Your next session is just as importantas the last.

[SNOWBALL138]

Hi Hotpants,

This is normal. The only real solution for this is to get experience. The more you play, the less your results matter.

I was having my worst (in BB and in dollars) week ever last week, so it affected me a lot. However, next time I have a week thats bad, it will affect me less. Incidentally, I did a great job of playing through my bad week, and turned the whole thing around to show an above average profit. So, basically, I had 5 pretty bad days, and then two totally awesome days. I rule.

Needless to say, we're talking about probably 15k hands. I have no life.

Cheers,
Snowball

[FrankStallone]

play cheaper games, or play some trivial persuit oh wait you have been playing that game as long as you have been playing poker.

If I had quit when I doubled my BR, I wouldn't have 30x that BR now.

Divorce yourself from the results and concentrate on your play.

[Python49]

I suffer from this disease too, can we get meds for it or what?

[FreakDaddy]

Learn to meditate. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

No really though, finding away to not be attached to winning or losing is the key imo. Whether you when or lose poker comes down to making good decisions. Just take each of those one at a time and make the best one possible. Don't worry about the past or future.

[bohemian]

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I just hit a rush, and am now 'afraid' to play, because I don't want to lose the sweet feeling I have right now, being up X dollars.

Any tips for me to stop being a pansy? I've noticed myself do this before, I'll take a day or two off untill it settles in, do I can really enjoy it. But at the same time I'm frustrated with myself just a little.

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Go ahead. Quit the game altogether.

[TheCroShow]

i went through this a long time ago, felt bullet-proof, got cocky, then went through a MAJOR downswing! could be experiencing the climax of the variance curve, brace yourself because nobody stays there ALL THE TIME, we all get beat back down at some point. =P

*edit* my advice, keep playing the way you always play at the same limit obv, and like han solo said, "Great kid, don't get cocky!"

[diebitter]

Just play. Variance can be liberating.