When to move down

[lacky]

i woke up realizing i kinda fumbled through this last night. What I'm really trying to say is this. Everybodies game needs work and can improve. If you can't get motivated to seriosly work on your game when you're getting your ass kicked, when will you? That's why asking the question "what the hell am I doing wrong" and searching for it is a good thing, even if the answer really is "nothin".

[curtains]

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I'm not burnt out all and I am pretty damn sure I am making the right plays, I am just losing every hand I showdown, and I dont know how to deal with this. If I was playing like a moron, I know how to fix that. I miiight be pushing too much. I will probably slow down a little next time I play and not push as much. I have decided that when I get down to $10,000 in my party account, I am going to drop down to $55s. Right now, I am sitting around 12k and I had about 16k when I started losing. So, if I manage to drop 60 buyins, I will drop down. This sound reasonable to everyone? I guess I am just not used to losing for 5 days in a row. I know it doesnt sound like much, but it sucks when I WAS winning 1k a day for the previous 15 dys or so. Hopefully I have nothing to worry about...but if I do, I want to be prepared for it.

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If I had to guess, I'd say you probably aren't making the "right" plays as often as you think. Hell even when Im crushing the game, I don't believe that I'm always making the right plays.

[curtains]

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My opinion is that the new time clock makes it close to impossible to play winning poker as high as the $109s with 10 tables.

I have been playing poker for 18 years and have always played fast. At this point in my life, most SNG decisions have been made a million times before and take less than 2 seconds. I would never time out 8+ tabling with the old time clock.

Now, I still almost never time out... but there are a few hands each evening where I don't have enough time to select the perfect raise amount.

If you are a marginal winner, you will become a loser if the time clock affects your decisions. And it has to be affecting you with 10 tables open.

Multi-tabling SNGs is more like speed chess than a video game. It's not about reflexes. It takes a beat to make the right decision. 10 beats will time you out of table 1.

My advice would be to 6-table the 109s for a set of 500 and see where you are. If you are a loser over that set, then your game must have some fundamental leaks in light of your past 1500 games. If you are a healthy winner... then you have likely found your problem.

Irieguy

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I agree that the new time clock is a problem. I bought 4 monitors with the idea of playing 16 games at once, but with the new time restrictions, I don't think its going to be possible for me. I'm satisfied with just sticking to 8 (which is still quite doable although a bit tougher).