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Apologies and variance.
Need to post something.
Need to apologise to any DYMers out there who have witnessed my childish outbursts in the chat box of late. I hope and believe nothing personal has been said, rather it's been directed at the poker gods, the universe or whatever. Apparently it's therapeutic to post too.
The truth is I have never experienced a run of variance like this one. It's been nearly 4 1/2 months and over 2.5k games and I've been running horrifically. I've had 3 or 4 really bad runs in 4 1/2 years or so but this is the worst by far. It's really messing with my head and taking me to some dark places at times. I also feel at times like it's affecting my general health.
Possibly I need a break. The only thing is every time I resit (usually after only an hour or so) I feel fine again, I have calmed down completely (or think I have). I don't actually feel my game is affected by the tilt, just my mood and apparently my ability to refrain from using the chat box. But I tilt far quicker at the moment than I ever used to, probably only one or two beats being enough to do it. I've read about this in The Mental Game of Poker and I'll be revisiting that and purchasing the second asap, trust me.
Anyway, just needed to post something. Once again, massive apologies to anyone whose had to sit through some of the nonsense I've written in chat. I know I have a real problem with tilt and handling variance at the minute but I will be working on this and hopefully will get there.
Run well everyone, be happy.
Need to apologise to any DYMers out there who have witnessed my childish outbursts in the chat box of late. I hope and believe nothing personal has been said, rather it's been directed at the poker gods, the universe or whatever. Apparently it's therapeutic to post too.
The truth is I have never experienced a run of variance like this one. It's been nearly 4 1/2 months and over 2.5k games and I've been running horrifically. I've had 3 or 4 really bad runs in 4 1/2 years or so but this is the worst by far. It's really messing with my head and taking me to some dark places at times. I also feel at times like it's affecting my general health.
Possibly I need a break. The only thing is every time I resit (usually after only an hour or so) I feel fine again, I have calmed down completely (or think I have). I don't actually feel my game is affected by the tilt, just my mood and apparently my ability to refrain from using the chat box. But I tilt far quicker at the moment than I ever used to, probably only one or two beats being enough to do it. I've read about this in The Mental Game of Poker and I'll be revisiting that and purchasing the second asap, trust me.
Anyway, just needed to post something. Once again, massive apologies to anyone whose had to sit through some of the nonsense I've written in chat. I know I have a real problem with tilt and handling variance at the minute but I will be working on this and hopefully will get there.
Run well everyone, be happy.
Comments
I feel your pain and i know its very hard to bite your lip sometimes.
I used to be able to rack up 5 or 6 wins in a row on the DYM's but lately been struggling to put 2 together.
Do you think the games/players have changed in the past couple of months?
May need to revisit your DYM blog , may be therapeutic for you???
I head to the PLO & PLO8 DYM tables if i'm suffering on the Holdem DYM tables, the beats are not so hard to take in these formats.
Good Luck
Mick
It's a great point re mixing up the games. I like to mix in low stake MTTs for fun and I may try out Omaha too as I do enjoy it, even if I'm not very good, lol. I'm stuck with hold'em DYMs until at least Monday, though, the double points promo is too enticing (even if I could very well end up out of pocket due to the aforementioned variance) :-)
Good luck to you too Mick, thanks for posting.
No offence but I'm glad to see you variance catching up with you as amount of times I've got it in as a 4:1 fav against you and hit them runner runners is ridic, maybe next time think twice about writing guides that may help your opponents, common sense really.
Mind boggling
If you read the OP , you will observe that JC isn't complaining about people getting better, but just about getting frustrated about a bad run of variance.
The beauty of this community/forum is that fellow players are willing to help others out.
Your post just appears to lack of bit of class i.e. kicking someone when their down!
Jac please don't make comments about me not being nice guy etc, because I've seen countless posts of yours that are directed at non regs which make you come across as a n0b yourself
At the moment my good cards appear to be running into better (apart from my AA vs your QQ last night ☺)and when my big hands are being called by loose players I'm missing and they catch everything. i.e. ak vs 7 2 at lunch time. Very frustrating!
ps I hope your fortunes turn around soon, apart from against me of course
Plenty of guides on the internet about DYM's.
Not sure what the sky poker clique is that you refer to.
It is not called: 'I'm tilting because I can't believe some of the rubbish I'm being called with by all these donks!!!'
I'm sorry but he's made it harder for himself and all the other regs by being a good sport and creating a guide, I know he's a good player but the times I've been far ahead and he's smashed the flop/turn/river is unreal, so glad to see his sky run good has rubbed off finally.
You'll probably also find a lot of these regs at some point did try to convince one of these "sky rigged" posters that the site isn't rigged but the poster never wants to listen to reason or anything else for that matter and are generally just spoiling for a fight. They want to blame the site and nothing else. Right or wrong this is why people mock!
You on the other hand have come on to mock someone who is apologizing for any offence he may have caused and to say he's on a bad run of results.
ps this thread shows plenty of people trying to convince the poster he's wrong https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=show_static&page=poker_community_forums&plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3a57795ac2-1793-4377-b4cf-e124b0f555f4Forum%3acdf513a4-4811-44dd-b210-c66d9e48e878Discussion%3a9b8a6dec-9803-419d-b142-6c6d2514358b
But my way just gets to the point as me and a few others have witnessed his invincibility when it comes to winning flips/4:1's etc and personally I'm glad to see it's finally caught up with him; even if I do come across as a n0b.
I know there are a lot of poor/recreational players here, and maybe even the regs aren't great, but I don't understand why 'grinders' still play dyms on here.
The rake is a lot higher than elsewhere, which when you have small edges to begin with, is a killer.
I'm not sure the poorer standard of opposition compensates for the high rake?
Everything that's positive about the site, doesn't really apply to dyms imo.
For mtt/cash players, you can put up with, and overcome the 'lolrake' and the poor software, and to some extent the lack of action.
But in dyms, I'm not sure u can?
Rly dnt get why they're so popular here!!!!
I've just tried to scope you to see how many games you've played and there's no record of you EVER having played on skypoker - so how has he outdrawn you so many times? do you use different aliases?
Maybe the wording was a bit bad yeah, but the way he runs against me and a few other people it's good seeing that everyone is on the same level of variance, as this guy runs like gold