going on monkey tilt really really really sucks (lc)

yvesaint · #1 10-07-2005, 01:25 AM

look whos moving back down to 200 NL to 4-table for the next month and grind grind grind

yea i lost what i got from my shot at 5/10 (and then some)

monkey tilt makes me raise raise raise, which is sometimes cool because i went broke on 3 tables and had a $2k stack at 400 NL at another, but i still ended up way down because monkey tilt doesnt stop

i need to take a break for the next few days ......... i dont think i can psychologically handle 20 buy-ins

/whine

amoeba · #2 10-07-2005, 01:28 AM

you dropped 20 buyins?

what do you mean by not handling 20 buyins?

yvesaint · #3 10-07-2005, 01:30 AM

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no i dropped 2 buy-ins in 5/10 then proceeded to drop 3 in 2/4

and i cant handle 20 buy-ins meaning that when i get stacked at 2/4 with a 20 buy-in bankroll, it really really gets to me

but when i play with 40 buy-ins it doesnt seem as that big of a hit, so my game isnt affected as much

dibbs · #4 10-07-2005, 01:32 AM

Sorry to hear it man. What sparked this, beats, sloppiness, burnout?

Good to hear you don't think moving down is unacceptable, best of luck.

yvesaint · #5 10-07-2005, 01:45 AM

one beat leads to sloppiness leads to poor decisions

which in turn leads to pushing more

which in turn leads to getting stacked more

which in turn leads to more beats as im going to showdown more

i really gotta just bunker down and grind out some profit i can show for the long-term.

BobboFitos · #6 10-07-2005, 01:49 AM

I completely know what you went through!

yvesaint · #7 10-07-2005, 01:52 AM

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sad thing is, this is actually my second time running through something like this. except this time i had my good run at 5/10 to 'pad' my monkey tilt.

BobboFitos · #8 10-07-2005, 01:54 AM

i empathize with you because i went through the same.

#9 10-07-2005, 01:57 AM

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sad thing is, this is actually my second time running through something like this. except this time i had my good run at 5/10 to 'pad' my monkey tilt.

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I bet every millionaire poker player has gone through this far more than twice. How you deal with the adversity is what makes you a pro or not, IMO.

whittiphil · #10 10-07-2005, 02:03 AM

Funny thing is, I thought I was immune to tilt, then I said goodbye to 7 buyins in one day and still wasn't sure it was tilt.

I go back and look at those days hands now, it was tilt like something horrible. My tilt is call, call, call. It's a bad tilt because you don't notice it so easily until you realise you've lost 7 buyins.