First loss of my buy-in roll on 25nl
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First loss of my buy-in roll on 25nl
I am new to ring games coming from playing SnG and MTT's for 4 years. I use bitcoin so it allows for me to deposit with a credit card and withdraw with bitcoin nightly and I am not sure if any of you all do this but I don't play with my entire roll on a poker room. I have a credit card simply that holds my roll and at the start of my play, I deposit 4 buyins $100 for 25nl. My stop loss is 4 buyins so basically if the roll is gone.
Last Wednesday where I hit my first stop loss. I looked at my bb / 100 hands and it went down. I have been accustomed to seeing the up mountain going up and up and now with 4 buyins, it went down and now feel pretty bad. I am seeing myself as a donk. Now i feel like i need to punish myself and not not play for a week. I have looked back at my hands and I literally see myself in auto pilot and I see my worst day for me. I wasn't feeling well, felt tired and was 6 tabling and wasn't making good decisions.
Here are my thoughts....
I know he doesn't ...oooh yeah he does, damn it!
I have him killed, no way he has it...
I am just going to jam him for he .... oooh he calls? with oooh yeah the nuts.
My 3 bet will get him off this, nope he jams? damn it I got this
and i felt like a donk. My second rebuy was this and my third buy, i got this thinking I got this, I will win something and it was just horrible.
Anyway, after a bad session, is it ok just take off a couple of days and then refresh your mind? What do you do during these sessions?
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There is no reason to take off days, just take off a night of good sleep.
And try beating nl10 first.
I mean what BR you have? You should have at least 50 buyins, better 100.
Lucky, i am good with buyins. I actually have the buyins for 25nl tbh but I prefer to go down and make sure I am beating the game before moving up. I have hung out with my kids this weekend. I have been really enjoying the time off. I have been hitting up some videos and the forums.
I believe this last session was one where I tend to be more results oriented for the day which I believe that in what I am now thinking is absolutely wrong. With the next session, i hope to not be so in the results oriented on a day but in the long term and take each hand and make good +EV decisions knowing that sometimes, I could make a +EV decision and lose.
coming from tournaments you should know well how variance works. 4BI is just about random part of that.
I strongly recommended you to start work with your mindset, after four years in poker it is about the time to take your game to the next level.
Invest a fraction and get a huge returned for life.
Look out for Mental game of poker, both books, read them, work with them and take it from there.
good luck buddy
@felitwell since writing this... I had blown through Mental Game of poker 1 and 2. Variance is a part of poker. I am doing much much better with my tilt. I am back at it and really working on getting rid of that C game and D game.
Since this post, I have suffered some ring game allins that lost and when I look back at the hand, I would do it over and over again for it's profit. The biggest thing in all of mentality is making sure I am rolled right. Honestly, i had not. Now, being properly rolled, I am taking proper spots of allin situations and now see that it punishes others that are in the game improperly rolled and tilting.
I know see that even those this may come in as a oxymoron that "Good poker players will lose buyins as long as they win more buyins than they lose". You can't do that if you are underrolled initially in the game.
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