Poker Mentality

At which point I was 10 buyins down.

I've tilt-withdrawn a few times now and started again from NL2 knowing that my mood doesn't get affected when I play micro because realistically the most I can lose is tens of dollars, but when it gets to HUNDREDS - that's a lot of money to me!

I'm currently half way through grinding that reload bonus on stars (done 1/2 of it in a week) but I really don't feel like carrying on. I was over 27 buy-ins (~$700) up for the month which would have been one of my best non-MTT months since I started last april.

I really admire my friend rANDY who carries on playing, unaffected by results. He's had some really shitty down-swings but he's still going.

So although this is just a bit of a vent, has anyone got any advice?

I obviously don't want to withdraw and void the bonus, but I've got little motivation to play.I'm thinking maybe I'll go back to NL10 until I release the bonus and then maybe take a break until I'm gagging to play again!

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ah sorry to hear this bro I don't know what the cure for this really is, I guess you need to work on disassociating your bankroll as "real money" . IE you give yourself access to withdraw from your roll whenever you want, and so you think of it as "real money". I'm just guessing here, but maybe that is part of it? Think about it I guess.

I can get grumpy when downwinging too, but usually I just vent on here and I relax a good bit. Maybe can look back on your upswings or look at your overall winrate and that conforts me, atleast.

Just discipline your self to stop when you know you are playing bad. Have a listen to this - http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/657959/Tilt_advice.html

Ya that audio clip is really nice

On February 22 2009 18:58 Chewits wrote: Just discipline your self to stop when you know you are playing bad. Have a listen to this - http://www.liquidpoker.net/poker-forum/657959/Tilt_advice.html

i downloaded that and got bored listening. hahaha. serves me right

haha ya it is a bit slow but I just listened to it a couple of times while doing other stuff

what helps too is setting a plan for every hand you play (and then following it obv which is super hard sometimes , for example you are oop with nut str8 on the river but river card just completed the flush, villain is huge passive calling station who you dont expect to run big bluffs against you because youd dont have any crazy history between each other ... you bet pot on the flop on pot on the turn and your line was perfect but know : "wtf this monkey called me down with FD I know it that he hit it again" ... in this situation, calm down and make a plan - you will value bet your str8 and fold to a shove because than you are beat and you save like 40bb ... instead of sick nobrainer bet calling because this game is shit, stations everytime hit and you have half stack invested ... same you can use in preflop situations - make a plan what will you do with your AQ when you get raised by SB or BB after your BTN open ... it is much more easier to play when you think about your action ahead instead of acting under pressure in heat of combat handling with emotions ... sry if this is somethink you already use, but this helped me a lot with dealing with my lifetimetilt in few last months ...