[Closed] What is happening to me? :/

Stop playing S&G's and start playing Cash games....Varriance in S&G's is brutal! REEALLY brutal and unless you have the mindset to cope with it your setting yourself up for a fall. I'd recomend starting playing FR NL. Moving to SH NL when you can beat NL50/100.

"I can sit and play one day where i can win maybe 1 or to SNG, and then it all just goes bad i just cant catch a good card then i get frustrated, and i keep opening SNG after loosing those others.... "

You've said it all here. You gotta control your emotions when you play poker.

A few months ago I heard someone on WPT saying, (can't remember who it was) that Poker is the hardest way to make easy money. At first I didn't quite understand the words. But after 3 months, of playing day by day poker, trying become a proffesional, I learned that the emotions are the most important thing in this game. At one time you feel like you can lift the world with your bear hands, and ten minutes later you wanna cut your throat out and give it to your german shephard sleeping next to you. The stress that this game gives is immense and you should learn to cope with it.

If you feel that you are angry and that you keep opening SNG's out of anger, you deffinately should take a break, and cool your head.

Stop playing S&G's and start playing Cash games....Varriance in S&G's is brutal! REEALLY brutal and unless you have the mindset to cope with it your setting yourself up for a fall. I'd recomend starting playing FR NL. Moving to SH NL when you can beat NL50/100.

Sound like a good idea to keep Playing those freerolls to get the feeling of when to stop and when to know what is happening which could make me get out of the varriance "tilt" im in and know before it happens "how to controle it", i just couldnt see that one my self tyvm.. Tho i have a Question, NL 50 / 100 This requires a really high bankroll atleast 5000$ right?, And Partypoker only has the NL to "25 / 50" with a min 1000$ Requirement. But could u explain, what you mean about just starting playing cash games, do you have a good structure of how to go on with it that way?

Originally posted by Falco84
"I can sit and play one day where i can win maybe 1 or to SNG, and then it all just goes bad i just cant catch a good card then i get frustrated, and i keep opening SNG after loosing those others.... "

You've said it all here. You gotta control your emotions when you play poker.

A few months ago I heard someone on WPT saying, (can't remember who it was) that Poker is the hardest way to make easy money. At first I didn't quite understand the words. But after 3 months, of playing day by day poker, trying become a proffesional, I learned that the emotions are the most important thing in this game. At one time you feel like you can lift the world with your bear hands, and ten minutes later you wanna cut your throat out and give it to your german shephard sleeping next to you. The stress that this game gives is immense and you should learn to cope with it.

If you feel that you are angry and that you keep opening SNG's out of anger, you deffinately should take a break, and cool your head.

Well i can see what you mean about this, ive been there and done that.. Tho i am looking for a answer of, how too coop with it.. F.eks. how did you maybe coop with the variance in the poker play, is there a good way of dooing this? And how to keep out of this problem again... What signals i should watch more, tho i know about variance... tyvm ..

A very good way of calming down,for me, from tilt is analysing what you did wrong. Just by doing this your mindset changes, being a psychologist you should be able to evaluate what you did easily enough. And it makes you a better player.

I dont think playing limit will help as this game is truely brutal for varience.

It sounds to me like you dont have a full plan when playing sit n gos, make a plan.

i.e. early stages I am only going to play AKo, AQs+, TT+

middle stages........ect ect make a plan and stick to it, once you have a plan the beats dont really matter anymore just keep playing the same way(as long as it is a good plan) you will win in the end.

i know what's happening to you... you're transforming... into a potato!

Now seriously, if you want to get results you need to do 3 things i guess:
1. Know what you are doing (your expected ROI has to be positive)
2. Put a big volume (i made it a rule to play a minimum of 10 normal SNG's per day)
3. Have (a lot of) patience (try as much as i can to analyse my results ONLY at the end of the month, not to torture yourself with everyday variance).

Originally posted by mima2
i basicly know everything there should be to know..

change that thinking or u're bound to stay on the micros till u're finally fed up.
u'll never know everything there is to know. that's part of the fun ♦

edit: read all the OP now ♦
u need to watch vids and attend coachings so u can understand the reasons behind the actions and not just do what a hand chart tells u to

edit2: ok, read the whole thread now. god im lazy ♦

Originally posted by mima2

Stop playing S&G's and start playing Cash games....Varriance in S&G's is brutal! REEALLY brutal and unless you have the mindset to cope with it your setting yourself up for a fall. I'd recomend starting playing FR NL. Moving to SH NL when you can beat NL50/100.

Sound like a good idea to keep Playing those freerolls to get the feeling of when to stop and when to know what is happening which could make me get out of the varriance "tilt" im in and know before it happens "how to controle it", i just couldnt see that one my self tyvm.. Tho i have a Question, NL 50 / 100 This requires a really high bankroll atleast 5000$ right?, And Partypoker only has the NL to "25 / 50" with a min 1000$ Requirement. But could u explain, what you mean about just starting playing cash games, do you have a good structure of how to go on with it that way?

he means nl50 or nl100.
i wouldnt advice u to just change games because u're losing at something though. play whatever u like most and use everything at hand (teh internets) to improve ur game EVERY DAY.

Originally posted by andreibalint
i know what's happening to you... you're transforming... into a potato!

lol

Trust me, variance is a bitch at low limits FR NL as well. SOOOO many times I get my money in preflop with the best hand and get sucked out (KQs vs. 26o just then!!! FUCK POKER!!!!!!!!!!!), have KK or QQ and run into aces, etc. etc. etc.
I think its just something we really have to learn to deal with as poker players. I also think that if you're putting your own money into your account, expecting to win it all back at some stage, there is a time you need to stop putting money on and realise that a). poker may not be your game or b). you may have a gambling addiction

I myself had a pretty brutal downswing of a session today, I had that above hand, my aces got cracked, my queens ran into aces, but I won a couple of hands and then rivered a full house Kings full of Jacks (I was ahead anyway, didn't need the full house :P) and tripled up, which made me only down -.5 buyins for the day. Yesterday was a lot worse. But the day before that I made a slight win, and I'm confident i'm playing (mostly) good poker, with only a couple of leaks that I know I can fix.
I would strongly recommend getting tracking software (PT3 or HEM) as it lets you analyze whether or not you were tilting by replaying hands etc. and is just a really valuable resource. I got PT3 the other day and haven't regretted it once; its fantastic.