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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
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Seems like November is kind of like re-living the mass-downswing that much of 2+2 had back in January. [/ QUOTE ] LOL, good ol' January '05. I curse that month! Luckily I haven't followed the trend with the November downswing. I actually had a kickass Nov with a huge heater right in the middle. I did have a little downswing towards the end though. Nothing too major. |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
going from 20/40 to 3/6 or 5/10 seems completely unnecessary
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
yah i agree... from your post it seems like you still have a 20k roll. youre a good player and shouldnt have trouble beating 10/20. i dont know why you are going to 5/10.
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
Thanks for the comments guys. It's reassuring that someone like Mbob is going through the same thing as me.
[ QUOTE ] yah i agree... from your post it seems like you still have a 20k roll. youre a good player and shouldnt have trouble beating 10/20. i dont know why you are going to 5/10. [/ QUOTE ] I appreciate the confidence. I don't have doubt that I could beat 10/20 either. I just need a break from the varience. I'll probably spend a month at 5/10 and when I get some confidence back, I'll go back to 10/20. |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
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Thanks for the comments guys. It's reassuring that someone like Mbob is going through the same thing as me. [ QUOTE ] yah i agree... from your post it seems like you still have a 20k roll. youre a good player and shouldnt have trouble beating 10/20. i dont know why you are going to 5/10. [/ QUOTE ] I appreciate the confidence. I don't have doubt that I could beat 10/20 either. I just need a break from the varience. I'll probably spend a month at 5/10 and when I get some confidence back, I'll go back to 10/20. [/ QUOTE ] I've went through exactly what you are talking about a couple of weeks ago. took a shot, got crushed, returned to old limit, got really crushed, and moved a level lower than one I "knew" I could beat for a few k hands, just to get the confidence back. It was huge. impeccable table selection is huge too. it's a lot easier to get your confidence back pounding on terrible players in position. now isn't the time to be trading blows with good lags out of position -- it will send you over the edge. |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
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Thanks for the comments guys. It's reassuring that someone like Mbob is going through the same thing as me. [ QUOTE ] yah i agree... from your post it seems like you still have a 20k roll. youre a good player and shouldnt have trouble beating 10/20. i dont know why you are going to 5/10. [/ QUOTE ] I appreciate the confidence. I don't have doubt that I could beat 10/20 either. I just need a break from the varience. I'll probably spend a month at 5/10 and when I get some confidence back, I'll go back to 10/20. [/ QUOTE ] I am in the same boat too. November was my first losing month this year. I did great in the three months prior, and started 20/40 in late October. I was actually winning, but at a low rate when I decided to step back to 15/30 for a while. There I dropped 90BB, and then moved to 10/20 where I dropped another 60BB or so. I know this does not sound like a huge downswing, but it was just annoying the way it was happening. No big losses, just lots of small ones (10-30BB each) and only 3-4 winning days out of the last 20. I'll probably do a month of 5/10 also, and re-evaluate in January. On problem I have is that I'm going to take a big hit around April 15. Once the end of the year comes I need to exclude that chunk from my bankroll and living expense money, so I don't mind being a little conservative at this point. |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
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So lookout you 3/6 grinding tags, I'm gonna pwn your weak tight asses, and if you try to steal my BB, I'm gonna cut you. [/ QUOTE ] It won't be a steal, and you'll find you're holding on to the bladed end of the knife if you try and cut me...and I'll be holding two box-cutters, 'cause I'm just that street... Seriously, good luck though. --Zetack |
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I\'m back baby!
Battling back!
Just played my first session since this post. 1000 hands of 5/10 for $687.75. Wow, these games are nice compared to 20/40. I can blind steal and not get c/r'd on every f'ing turn! And there are fish...not just lagtard fish but the 70/1/.4 kind! Ahhh, I love poker again. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
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This may be the case for me, but I can tell you one thing: I wasn't playing any worse in the last 6-7k hands than I was the 10s of thousands before them. I think the strongest part of my game is keeping level-headed and not tilting. [/ QUOTE ] You know, I almost hate to post this because it will inevitably spark a flurry of "NO YOUR WRONG", but you were tilting. Not admitting you tilt is also a big problem because the first step to overcoming it is accepting it and taking breaks when you feel it coming on. It is not possible to lose 1/3rd of your bankroll and not tilt. Let me be the first person to say that I tilt and tilt pretty badly sometimes. I tilt when I get 5 dollar parking tickets. I tilt when I'm donking around in 5/10 and someone hits their straight flush draw to crack my wired pair of 2's on the river and it goes check check. As you move higher and higher tilt will affect you more and more because you're playing with more significant amounts of money, and it's something you aren't equipped to deal with. There have been times where I'll fire up 8 tables, only to have AA cracked on 7 seperate tables at the same time within 2 minutes. That's ok, I just take a break. And there are other times I take a bunch of bad beats, but I'm playing well and feeling well, so I'll get 5-6k hands in. I've sweated people online and watched them make the most tilt-fueled plays and then try to justify it to me. Wow, just say "Oops, [censored], I tilted." and take a five minute break. Your winrate will thank you. Most people's reaction when I mention something like this is "Oh, well he obviously doesn't know me. That may apply to other people, but not me" followed by a summary of how they don't fall into this category. Whatever. I won't argue it. But you really should be aware of your emotional state at all times. |
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Re: Stepping down and admitting defeat
I took a 200bb swing this NOV. In the downswing crew!
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