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time to call an end
It's official my mental game is extremely difficult to control, even when reading that mental game of poker book, things still seem as bad as they usually are. When I actually take into account the fact i'm yet to go on that great holiday I was planning to do after the cash prize in highroller. It gets me thinking there is no point even continuing because all the people around me are consistently arguing that poker is total luck.
people might be surprised to see me say this but I will say it "the high roller is what I think has lead to this"! it started with a couple of weeks positive tilt, having lost a so much stepping myself up too quickly I resumed to nl20 where I began to make heavy losses again something I don't usually see myself doing and this lead to panic by others around me who demanded I take almost the full lot out of the account leaving me with just £100, this inturn leads me to start putting too much pressure on myself expecting to easily get the cash back and return onto nl20 in no time ie thinking I can get from £100 to £1K in just 2 months of nl4, leading to even more mistakes.
Poker itself should still continue but will be redone from scratch on a whole new account on my other site 888poker because that one has still got me playing nl4 having not spent anywhere near as much time on it as I spent on this one.
it's been great know you all but time to say good bye.
people might be surprised to see me say this but I will say it "the high roller is what I think has lead to this"! it started with a couple of weeks positive tilt, having lost a so much stepping myself up too quickly I resumed to nl20 where I began to make heavy losses again something I don't usually see myself doing and this lead to panic by others around me who demanded I take almost the full lot out of the account leaving me with just £100, this inturn leads me to start putting too much pressure on myself expecting to easily get the cash back and return onto nl20 in no time ie thinking I can get from £100 to £1K in just 2 months of nl4, leading to even more mistakes.
Poker itself should still continue but will be redone from scratch on a whole new account on my other site 888poker because that one has still got me playing nl4 having not spent anywhere near as much time on it as I spent on this one.
it's been great know you all but time to say good bye.
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It does appear you put far too much pressure on yourself to make consistent profits. You are not a professional so there is no need to treat the game as if you have to make a living from it. There isn't a player on this site who has played comparable volume to yourself who won't have experienced some downswings. Yes its not nice to lose money but the nature of the game is such that somebody has to lose in order for somebody else to win. it sucks but its just how it is.
Your posts have been mostly downbeat since the big high roller cash and it sounds as if you are gaining little to no enjoyment from playing. If that is the case I would suggest a total break from playing would be for the best.
Come back when you feel the itch to actually play some cards rather than look to make a dent in your recent losses.
Best of luck.
Have a nice break but I would recommended coming back to Sky Poker because I feel its a quality site and its only getting better.
all in all i played abolsutely no poker yesterday, but with a little chat with lambert180 and dohhh on face book i have decided now i'll certainly be best off taking a break away from sky poker for a month and moving along to a new poker site.
The great thing about this poker site (pokerstars) is it can enable me to use a tool called tilt breaker, what this does is allows me to set a limit on how many buy ins worth i can lose, how much money i shall win and how long in general i can spend on a site before this automatically boots me off table and keeps me away for so many hours.
I've taken almost all my cash away from this site and used it on that other one the first deposit bonus itself is what i shall return back, i've kept some cash on here because one thing i will still be playing is DTD for flyingdragg himself.
good bye for now
I think the games on stars will be very difficult but only time will tell about that.
In terms of how quickly you could move up I think this is a common thing where people expect to win far more than they will. Poker isn't easy, it takes a lot of time on and off the table to make money.
the reason it's my main site for now is $300(£250) is waiting for me due to first time deposit.6000 points are needed over a 2 month cycle and i know i can gain this having got 7000 on average at sky.
edit:I did attempt to set up an account on fulltilt knowing how many pros are on pokrstars but my anti virous kept stopping the download.
Confused about your comparison between points earned on sky and what you need to earn on stars. Have you worked out how many hands/hours you need to play?
Either way, the mental game / tilt is still going to be in need of fixing.
When you're on your game Craig you are definitely one of the stronger players at micro-cash and will 100% win over the long term... even if you never quite migrate any higher than NL10/NL20... the only other thing is to remember not to over-complicate things at these low levels and don't attempt too many bluffs against players that just aren't thinking at that level themselves - although practice what I'm preaching here... not what I'm doing at the tables!
Hope whatever route you take next makes you happy, poker has to be about the fun first and foremost. And fingers crossed you get to splash out on that big holiday... that'd be killing me to ever have a 4-figure bink and not have a holiday booked to go and enjoy the win in style!!!