stressed out to the max

[ilya]

I hear you man. I'm about to have my first losing week ever. Down 14 buy-ins over my last 100 $20s, and set to have another losing 100! I don't know what the hell is going on.

[Irieguy]

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I just needed my vent..

i had it. I feel a little better.

I am extra irritable because I have been also purging caffeine out of my system. The withdrawal is really bad. After some research on it I have found that most say cold turkey is not the way to do it ebcause it causes too much stress.

I drove to the store to calm down and bought some chocolate icecream. I can indulge in it and get a little caffeine fix.

I think what I was looking for was someone to tell me that I am not a winning player so I couold have ripped them a new A-hole in retaliation. That would have been fun for me.

Somone zzzzzzzzzzed me today for hitting my time bank button when I wanted to think about a push. I went off on him and timed out every hand after that. Teling him that an apology was needed in order for it to stop.

I am on tilt. I dont play terrible like some do twhen they tilt, but honestly I worry about my health and the health of those around me that may cross me. If someone pushed me the wrong way in a state like this, my 140lbs ass would be all over them. I fear I may hurt someone. I havent had caffeine in days and have been cutting out my other bad habit as well(420).

I did these things for health reasons, but now... I think it is in my best interest to indulge.

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Dude, you need a spliff in a bad way.

Sheeesh.

Irieguy

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Anyone else? I didn't have that many 9ths in 1000 22s.

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I never had close to that many 9ths either [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[axeshigh]

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I hear you man. I'm about to have my first losing week ever. Down 14 buy-ins over my last 100 $20s, and set to have another losing 100! I don't know what the hell is going on.

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Prophecy still as you at 45%, so I figure you must have been running insane prior to that... always wondered why you were playing the 22s with stats like that.

[tigerite]

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I hear you man. I'm about to have my first losing week ever. Down 14 buy-ins over my last 100 $20s, and set to have another losing 100! I don't know what the hell is going on.

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In the game we played, you seemed to leave it a little too late to make a move, but otherwise you played pretty fine. Just seemed to be card dead. Once I'd doubled up I could make a fair few steals at the 50/100 level, and never looked back (although I only got 3rd when I pushed to the other big stack who limped UTG with K9, and he thought for ages before calling with KQo, ugh..thought he would lay down).

[Newt_Buggs]

damn, this is a good reminder for me of how much harder this game is when you're playing for rent money.

[Irieguy]

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I'd check what your finish distribution looks like for starters

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1-40
2-43
3-60
4-65
5-59
6-52
7-35
8-26
9-26
10-7



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That looks incredibly out of whack to me. Anyone else? I didn't have that many 9ths in 1000 22s.

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I would have probably said the same thing a few months ago. But I had a run of 500 SNGs in June with 29 9ths, even though I had been at 3.5% for my prior 2000.

Also, in my first 150 $55's for the bet with Zen, I have 16 9ths so far in spite of a 38% ITM. Get aces cracked 7 consecutive times and your finish distribution will be skewed for a while.

It's too easy to let these numbers mess with your head. It's still just poker. Get your money in as the favorite, and force your opponents to act differently than they would if the cards were exposed. I believe you can tell if this is happening... at least it's easy to tell when you watch somebody's HHs.

Irieguy

[Slim Pickens]

I've gone 400 as a loser at the 22's, which is included in my total of just over 1000 for a 15% ROI this year. It sucks ass, and I can't imagine how much worse it sucks when it's your income, not your spending money, at stake.

As for statistical metrics, you have exactly the kind of finish distribution I'd expect to see from someone sucks at coin flips. Maybe others more talented than I can avoid ever having to take them, but if I can get all 900 of my chips in as a 60/40 favorite 5-handed I'll take it any day. Since you have to take so many of these, an extended bad run in the 60/40's (binomial distribution... and so on) will kill your ROI like you wouldn't believe. I could lose every time I went in as an 85/15 favorite and not have it hurt too badly because it almost never comes up. It's not the suckouts. It's that losing with A9 being called by KT twenty times out of thirty BS that'll get you.

...and if poker doesn't work, you can alway grow your hair out and make a living as a Corey Feldman impersonator.

SlimP

[stupidsucker]

I dont even have to look at my PT database.
my 9th place and 8th place losses were due to bad bad beats.

The way things have been going it looks like runner runner draws are a legit strategy vs me.

[nate_king1]

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It is supposed to be easy too.

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Poker isn't easy. My major beef with this forum is all of the ridiculous hyperbole about how easy poker is. At least once a day someone says something ridiculous like "I can teach a 9 year old with lupus how to beat the 55s" or "Anyone should be able to beat the 22s for 25% roi."

By reading, studying, observing, and thinking about poker, you set yourself up to have a series of small edges over your opponents, edges that are hopefully greater than the rake. Yet your edges are still small. Casinos have been known to post losing quarters, and they have many more trials than we have to exploit their edges.

Your play probably has deteriorated somewhat, but in all likelyhood, you're still a winning player. I realize that "hang in there" is neither comforting nor particularly helpful advice, but aside from reviewing hands and trying to get the positive mindset, it's the only advice out there.

Best of luck.

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I agree with you completely. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]