Confidence & motivation regained?

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flounder44 United States. Oct 19 2009 03:15. Posts 916

During Mid august i went on a massive heater and got up to 4k from 100nl. I took a 200nl shot at 4.8k and got up to 7.2k peak to late august. Then the doomswitch happened.... i went from 7.2k all the way down to 5k in 48 hrs(11 buyins or so)... I was geting owned hard by good regs/reg fishes/ whales and shortstacks. Got it in plenty of times with overpair vs toppair and it never held once.

Early september i cashed out like 1.5kish cuz i was going on midlife crisis and hating fulltilt... just seeing 2 cards together made my stomach sick. So i refused to play another hand until i felt like it again which was about a period of 30days or so. In the meantime i focused on school/classical guitar/dota/SF4/drinking on a regular basis to get my mind off poker. I seriously considered quitting and cashing the rest out (4kish after cashing out 1.5k). The only poker i playd was when my rich friend offered to stake me for sunday million cuz hes a huge degen... that was a pretty good waste of 215$.

Bouncing back:

Then the other day i was at my friends house(i go there almost every day) and i was bored since he wasnt there yet, so i booted up 3 tables of 200nl 6max. (Before my short hiatus I was 6-8 tabling 200nl lol.) This time it was different tho... from 15vpip i was playing 30vpip and putting people on tilt/making bad calls/folds etc. I was about even at friends comp.
Then i got home pretty early that night yesterday (12am) and din't feel like sleeping.
So like a true degen at 12am i boot up an HU table vs any reg and play cards(normally i played 2-3 hu tables). He made a lot of out of line bets where I would bet flop, then 20 on 27 turn and he'd always reraise me some weirdass amt. And i actually had the goods a few times and he got caught out of line... then he got really lucky when he went allin on QK4cc Tc turn when he had Ac9h on 3b pot and i had AJo and he rivers Jd for split. This was the last hand before he jet. + Show Spoiler +

managed to win about 300 or so from him in about 200 hands...

Around 3pm today i wake up to watch some football and at 8pm i continue to grind 4x 200nl 6m tables and here is end result for sunday.

I dont know if this means ill be playing a lot again but theres a good chance after today I think the month break let me focus a lot on whats important in my life (school, friends, music, videogames, and alcohol). Hope to see you degens at table soon!

btw if anyone wants to chat about anything hit me up on aim!

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Last edit: 19/10/2009 03:30

ShaperofDreams Canada. Oct 19 2009 03:25. Posts 438

congrats, dont leave poker.

flounder44 United States. Oct 19 2009 03:27. Posts 916

i know 11 bi's at 200nl prolly isnt even a downswing but the fact that i put in so much volume in 48 hrs just to be down like 2k+ was very soulcrushing. I still feel soulcrushed but as long as i follow 20+ bi rule im willing to play wahtever limit allows me for time being since i have no life.

Eluflop Estonia. Oct 19 2009 04:58. Posts 3835

yeah ,man im feeling you a lot .. I just recently moved up to 200 nl,first i rocketed up 4k and then the doomswich -15 bi in 4 sessions. lost a couple with AA to KK etc... got low on confidence... but now im back in business, playing decent agin and believing in meself =).

Good to read that smbody elses soul is hurting as well besides myselfs 8)