Please help

[OrianasDaad]

This is going to look harsh, but it needs to be said.

You aren't a good poker player. A good poker player understands some fundamentals that you don't, considering your post.

You are getting frustrated about a short-term event which is ruled almost entirely by luck. Good poker players realize that anything can happen in the short-term, and the long-term is where money lies.

You feel as if you understand the concepts, but admit that you can't stand seeing your good hands get outdrawn by lesser hands. This is where the money comes from in poker. Learn to love players who suck out on you, since they are providing your income.

You don't deserve to win. I don't deserve to win. Nobody deserves to win. In fact, I'm against the word "deserve" altogether. Use the word "earn" instead. Making money in poker requires skill, and with this skill you "earn" the pots you win.

Playing tightly pre-flop doesn't make you a good player. It eliminates one major mistake (playing too many hands) that many players make, but it doesn't fix the other one (going too far with them).

There are people on these forums who will go over your games (for a nominal fee), but the best person to go over these games is YOU. Do it from a purely mathematical point of view. Use the fundamental theorem of poker, and calculate EV for each hand. A few hours of this exercise, with some daily practice, and you'll see not only the mistakes you make post-flop, but the mistakes that others' make as well.

The site you play at only matters when regarding the level of the opposition. "Getting out of Party" is your brain associating a streak of bad luck with a particular site. Good poker players don't let their brains, which are adept at forming patterns, fool them.

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Am I the succer at the table?

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You know how it goes. If you can't spot the sucker at the table, then you are it.

Again, the majority of these statements sound harsh, but my intention is not to flame or put anyone down. You need to seriously evaluate the skills that you do have, and those that you don't. Self-honesty is a characteristic that all long-term winners possess.

Immediately after reading SSHE, my first 1500 hands I was winning about 14bb/100 hands. I thought that was awsome that reading one book could make me such a huge winner. Over the next 2500 hands, I gave most of that back, but still had a winning rate of about 1.5bb/100 hands. When I first started visiting this site, I thought it was crazy for poeple to say you can have a run bad or good luck for several thousands of hands. I always thought that surely after a few hundred hands that luck would even out. Boy was I wrong! I look back at my stats for those first 1500 hands and I was getting great cards. I think winning so much early held me back a little, as when the cards went cold, I still thought I was going to win no matter what the odds. It took some time for me to realize when I was winning, I had a lot of good luck. During my downswing, I wanted to win so bad, I'm sure I gave away at least 4bb/100 hands. But, as a beginner to serious poker, I'm learning from every experience, and have been fortunate not to have lost my bankroll, thanks to my hot start.