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Starting Over
Hey guys, fancied writing a post on my game and whats gone wrong and perhaps looking for abit of advice for anyone that cares and for those that don't fair enough but keep ya beaks out the thread ;-)
so joined skypoker just over a year ago and had a fairly successful first year, makin a bit on the cash tables, going deep and final tabling the main 8pm tourneys on several occasions without actually taking one of em down! (annoying!) won a couple of little tourneys like the deepstacks and had a decent win ratio in the double your moneys! also won webby234 xmas little heads up tourney! ended the 2009 quite a fair bit in profit and got more and more into the game. I was playin poker for fun and never ever had a bankroll which many people bang on about on ere i just simply deposited when i wanted a game and withdrew after a win and was completly happy with that! loving playing poker and never got stressed about it....
so 2010 started of with a bang i won one of the smaller bounty hunters tourneys and got something around £220 for that and decided for the first time i would try and build a bankroll and used the winnings of this as a starter. so then over the next couple of months i played cash, MTT's, and DYM's and from the combination of the three i managed to build a big enough bankroll to allow me to sit at NL50 comfortably (if your using the 5% rule) and fairly comfortable at NL100 it was only just over a week ago that i bought direct into the vegas semi final for £120 and didnt batter an eyelid (finished 8th on the bubble-that hurt) and everything was great even to the point that I thought to myself that playing the game fulltime may in the future be a real possibility!...
The downfall begins....
SATURDAY 27TH MARCH - started off mid-day played cash for a bit, ended up about even. entered couple of the soccer saturday tourneys and finished 2nd in one, played the 8pm main open tourney and finished 11th. came off and had a game with my mates who were round my house for a game and had started playin without me as i ran much deeper in the open than i thought as i had a fair few! played with them for few hours and after they left decided to take it upon myself to log on ere and have a game of cash (something that ive never done drunk since losin a nice chunk of change last year heads up to lolufold!) and because of my recent form thought i was unbeatable! im not known for being the tightest player in the world anyway but some of my plays were just crazy and so painfully obvious that i dropped a few buy-ins at NL100 and packed up for the night.
SUNDAY 28TH MARCH - after getting over my hangover decided to play a bit of cash and try and repair a bit of the damage from the night before so opened up a table at NL50 and another at Nl100 and once again played like a complete and utter muppet and lost another few buy-ins! everything ive learnt from the past year went out the window for some unknown reason and i took it upon myself to try and outplay everybody with any 2 cards be it in position or out, i didnt care! im the eagle im awesome i thought lol like i said anybody that knows me or has played against me will know im quite loose and like to get funky now and then, but its usually well timed and opponent dependent but not today! anything and anybody will do! ....so after that disaster decided to play the primo and lasted a whopping 7 minutes! so that was me done for the night! contemplated entering the vegas semi again but opted out as my play had been so horrible!
MONDAY 29TH MARCH - still tilting a bit from the day before i opened up a another 2 tables, 1 at Nl50 and another at NL100 again. and within 15mins i had lost my buy-in on both tables - one was a bad beat to be fair but i just chucked another £100 away on the Nl100 table with a J high bluff - why???????? anyway after a cigarette decided id open up a NL200 table and after about 10mins i flopped a Q high flush, bet out got -re-raised and flat called, bet the turn and he shoved all-in I snap called and he hit the A flush on the river! i was so angry not at the hand but because id just chucked more money away on a table where im not rolled for- and it hurt! what was i thinkin? and i packed up for the day there and then!
so for the first time in over a year the past 3 days have hurt me and ive been stressin about it so much lookin through my hand history and laughing at some of my moves they were completly ridiculous! to the point where players at my table have been 'lol'ing at my game! (players who i know are completly useless themselves-and have hunted down to get there money!) and my nice bankroll that ive done so well building up has taken a very noticable hit. so after thinking about it alot tonight ive completly withdrawn the whole of my bankroll - everything! ive not got a penny on there im gonna enjoy at least some of the money ive earnt. and im not gonna be on the tables for a few days whilst i get my head straight and decide what i want from the game! ive not enjoyed playin the past couple of days and have been playing so so bad its laughable and i have no idea why! one thing i know for certain is that im not gonna be treating the game like a job anymore and when i decide to deposit again -probably in a few days after ive sorted my head out im gonna be playin for fun again but how much, what levels and what format i dont know (although i think tourneys probably are my strongest asset)
I know this thread is long (im aware there are blogs for this stuff lol) and probably boring to alot of you but it feels good to get a bit off my chest coz its been on my mind constantly! and just wondered if any of you have had any experiences like this, any times you suddenly just drop everything you know and play like complete loonys and just start chucking money away for no reason? and if you figured out why this is, and what you did about it? does having more money in your account make you more complacent? and should i play all 3 disciplines or find the one that suits me best and stick to that? cheers for listening and see you on the tables in the not so distant future! - Andy
so joined skypoker just over a year ago and had a fairly successful first year, makin a bit on the cash tables, going deep and final tabling the main 8pm tourneys on several occasions without actually taking one of em down! (annoying!) won a couple of little tourneys like the deepstacks and had a decent win ratio in the double your moneys! also won webby234 xmas little heads up tourney! ended the 2009 quite a fair bit in profit and got more and more into the game. I was playin poker for fun and never ever had a bankroll which many people bang on about on ere i just simply deposited when i wanted a game and withdrew after a win and was completly happy with that! loving playing poker and never got stressed about it....
so 2010 started of with a bang i won one of the smaller bounty hunters tourneys and got something around £220 for that and decided for the first time i would try and build a bankroll and used the winnings of this as a starter. so then over the next couple of months i played cash, MTT's, and DYM's and from the combination of the three i managed to build a big enough bankroll to allow me to sit at NL50 comfortably (if your using the 5% rule) and fairly comfortable at NL100 it was only just over a week ago that i bought direct into the vegas semi final for £120 and didnt batter an eyelid (finished 8th on the bubble-that hurt) and everything was great even to the point that I thought to myself that playing the game fulltime may in the future be a real possibility!...
The downfall begins....
SATURDAY 27TH MARCH - started off mid-day played cash for a bit, ended up about even. entered couple of the soccer saturday tourneys and finished 2nd in one, played the 8pm main open tourney and finished 11th. came off and had a game with my mates who were round my house for a game and had started playin without me as i ran much deeper in the open than i thought as i had a fair few! played with them for few hours and after they left decided to take it upon myself to log on ere and have a game of cash (something that ive never done drunk since losin a nice chunk of change last year heads up to lolufold!) and because of my recent form thought i was unbeatable! im not known for being the tightest player in the world anyway but some of my plays were just crazy and so painfully obvious that i dropped a few buy-ins at NL100 and packed up for the night.
SUNDAY 28TH MARCH - after getting over my hangover decided to play a bit of cash and try and repair a bit of the damage from the night before so opened up a table at NL50 and another at Nl100 and once again played like a complete and utter muppet and lost another few buy-ins! everything ive learnt from the past year went out the window for some unknown reason and i took it upon myself to try and outplay everybody with any 2 cards be it in position or out, i didnt care! im the eagle im awesome i thought lol like i said anybody that knows me or has played against me will know im quite loose and like to get funky now and then, but its usually well timed and opponent dependent but not today! anything and anybody will do! ....so after that disaster decided to play the primo and lasted a whopping 7 minutes! so that was me done for the night! contemplated entering the vegas semi again but opted out as my play had been so horrible!
MONDAY 29TH MARCH - still tilting a bit from the day before i opened up a another 2 tables, 1 at Nl50 and another at NL100 again. and within 15mins i had lost my buy-in on both tables - one was a bad beat to be fair but i just chucked another £100 away on the Nl100 table with a J high bluff - why???????? anyway after a cigarette decided id open up a NL200 table and after about 10mins i flopped a Q high flush, bet out got -re-raised and flat called, bet the turn and he shoved all-in I snap called and he hit the A flush on the river! i was so angry not at the hand but because id just chucked more money away on a table where im not rolled for- and it hurt! what was i thinkin? and i packed up for the day there and then!
so for the first time in over a year the past 3 days have hurt me and ive been stressin about it so much lookin through my hand history and laughing at some of my moves they were completly ridiculous! to the point where players at my table have been 'lol'ing at my game! (players who i know are completly useless themselves-and have hunted down to get there money!) and my nice bankroll that ive done so well building up has taken a very noticable hit. so after thinking about it alot tonight ive completly withdrawn the whole of my bankroll - everything! ive not got a penny on there im gonna enjoy at least some of the money ive earnt. and im not gonna be on the tables for a few days whilst i get my head straight and decide what i want from the game! ive not enjoyed playin the past couple of days and have been playing so so bad its laughable and i have no idea why! one thing i know for certain is that im not gonna be treating the game like a job anymore and when i decide to deposit again -probably in a few days after ive sorted my head out im gonna be playin for fun again but how much, what levels and what format i dont know (although i think tourneys probably are my strongest asset)
I know this thread is long (im aware there are blogs for this stuff lol) and probably boring to alot of you but it feels good to get a bit off my chest coz its been on my mind constantly! and just wondered if any of you have had any experiences like this, any times you suddenly just drop everything you know and play like complete loonys and just start chucking money away for no reason? and if you figured out why this is, and what you did about it? does having more money in your account make you more complacent? and should i play all 3 disciplines or find the one that suits me best and stick to that? cheers for listening and see you on the tables in the not so distant future! - Andy
Comments
If I'm going out on the lash, I simply click the "cool off for 24 hours" button before going out. Maybe a little extreme, but it's saved me quite a few quid over time.
Anyway, the most important thing is not to be too hard on yourself. So many of us have done similar (for example, I once blew my four figure roll on 'Stars in one night. Self excluded for six months as punishment). It's a blip but, from the tone of your post, it's one that you won't be repeating.
It appears you know what to do, and have started to do it. Take a break and come back refreshed, play some mtt's and build your confidence. I've been there done that and got the tee-shirt. You will emerge a better player than you already are.
ps. Thinking about it.... over the last 7 years online, I've got at least 3 tee-shirts.
anyway decided this afternoon that im stickin to my original plan of havin a few days away and will be back playing over the easter weekend hopefully fully refreshed and ready to go again!
Thanks again & good luck all of ya on the tables - Andy
p.s Hal thanks alot for nominating this as thread of the week! respect!
pps Dohhhhhhh the pm is on its way buddy lol ;-)
a very honest thread no b.s on this ,
congrats eagle in winning thread of the week ,
go win some cash now with your free enrty !
genius or should i say geniuses lol !