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thats it im off away for a week
Sorry guys, going to need to take a break for at least a week. Ive just watched my two pot sized bets with top pair get called by second pair all the way down, for the guy to hit 2 pair on the river. Ive lost every race ive been in i cant win a single hand. Getting so frustrated. So im off for a bit. May pop on the forums though but wont be seen on any of the tables. This kind of fortune gone on over a week now, cost me nearly £160 so im saying enough is enough.
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Me AK opponent shoved me i called he had 55 i lose.
Same opponent i had QQ I shove He calls with A7 flop has two 7s in it.
Another game i shove with 8s get called by AJ flop AJJ
Ive just had enough of it. i cant win a single 50 50 or even a single hand. i need to take time to recover, poker is my only sorce of income, so taking a hit like this is going to set me back weeks.
Heres a prime example,
It was only recently that I came off of a run of 6 consecutive weeks similar to yours, no cards no hits beaten on the river, went from £70 right down to £6 and all of a sudden it changed, you are probably better having a break, gl in whatever you do:)
Other than that ill vist the forums but nothing else
I had a shot of the 30p tables but i still found i got fished lol. Although not as bad as the 4p tables. what time do you usually play, ill maybe put in a little tomorrow and get on a table with you and learn the cash game off an experianced cash player, since i have a set out tournament style of play.
Why do i get the feeling im like a second comming of Phil Hellmuth
Good luck.
We all need a break now and then so take a week off and forget about poker. Come back refreshed and ready to kick some 4r5e
As for DOHHHHHHH, i just love your enthusiasm, now thats poker...
Paul
As for DoHHHHHHHH can you help me out, learn the differances from cash and torunaments please. It was always tournaments that my old man played so thats what i learnt.
On a side not, i think i have a typical Negraneu problem, i can name my opponenets cards, knowing there beating me and because i want to know if im right so badly i call. I need to stop that to be fair.
I understand the feeling right thing, i usually always do things on gut, which i usually do right. But when the guts not there i struggle to call.
Haha curiosity killed the cat - and the DOHH !!
I know exactly that feeling, although I wouldnt say I was like Negranu, Im miles better than him
I play anything from 15/30p to 50/£1, ----- start low during the day and move up after midnight.
Giz a shout when u get some money on.
Poker Shocker - J-K beats 2-2!
Don, it's a flip - barely that, in fact. Pre-Flop, you were 48% v 52%.
Take a little break, man, sometimes poker messes with our heads.
Ill maybe get some money on tomorrow once im a little refreshed and have a pop on 10/20p if £20 sufficient for that, and hopwefully move up throughout the day as you say.
In Response to Re: thats it im off away for a week: It was more the way the hand played tikay, it was a bad example, i shoved on the flop he had nothing and hit a runner, i knew it was a race, wouldnt have minded a spike to a K of J, but to call an all in on a flop with K high was more what i was peeved at. lol.
But a run of bad beats does affect your game and playing without confidence is difficult.
Personally I find that I play better after a few days off, and come back from working away with a clear mind.
I would have no sympathy at all if you had backed USA !
Tony
Thanks for the encouragement, i know i can play tournaments well, and at the stakes i do play theirs only a few players that really worry me (not played many of the main events so no came accross many of the bigger players often) but i know if i play my best on a good day i can cash in 3 of 4 tournaments, usually win one of the early doors one and won a couple of the latter night ones too. I think i sometimes ger a little over confident though aswell.
For example before i went on this bad run id won 5 live games in a row and a good few tournaments on here. I went on a bad run in MTT for a couple of days but i then had a 100% record for 2 days in DYMS but then that ended to and since then in think ive cash one in 3 DYMS which is nowhere near good enough and only tournament i cashed in was a refund, but i was sitting with 6000 chips to the average 2500 at that point.
On a side note done a scary with my last 30p and managed to win it. So went into a £1 got AA shove all in and some donk calls with J9 and flops trips.
But bad luck can never last forever, I started playing less frequently and at lower buy-ins until my cards started to hold up and my jinx gradually came to an end. Then my luck corrected itself by going the other way, in May I was running red-hot and full of confidence, it ended up being my most profitable month ever.
Hang on in there Don, you'll be back to winning ways sooner or later.
To be completely fair my biggest problem is myself. When i have a bad day, i want to make it a good day, i challenge myself to win two tournaments for everyone i fail to cash in. Unfortunetly on a bad day that means im buyin to loads of tournaments. They are usually bounty hunters and i can take 2 or 3 bountys before i go bad, usually down to my sneakyness to pick on the idiot that went all in and lost and kept 200 chips back.
As i live off poker income, i usually do 8 - 12 hour sessions a day, which means inparticular this week im struggling to replace it. Its really all i know from when i get up till i go to be. I managed a 23 hour session once because a tournament just wouldnt end. I teand to find the more tired or the hungryer i am i do better i pick up on every little thing when im tired. Most of my useful notes on players have came from when ive been playing shattered. However i also make silly mistakes during these times aswell. My reads at this time are usually 80% correct, but as i said to DOHHHHH im that focused on knowing im right with a player i dont have a note on i call when i know im beat.
I know i can play strong tournament poker, but im still learning, ive only played around 600 online games and maybe another 200 live so im only now starting to understand betting patterns, position plays etc. However that is mostly down to the fact ive taught myself most of what i know, i learnt a little from watching my old man, but i didnt understand it. I must also note, i have a 90% record against him in games, hes only taken me out once when we both only had 1 and a half big blinds left or the last 3 players in a home fast structured game, i shoved on SB with KQ him being commited called we both had 12000 blinds 4000/8000 at this point only 72000 chips in play and the other guy who had folded had the rest of it. He shows 23 which he was blind and spiked a 3 and i missed. Fair enough, we had our giggles but i know i can outplay him 90% of the time.
Apart from that, im still learning the game. But i know know where my flaws are, if anything this bad run has helped me spot them so i thank it for that, i got over confident and believed i was playing near perfect poker, when to be fair i wasnt. I was making the odd bad call and getting "lucky" but i usually always knew where i stood. However now that i know where my weakness is i have full confidence of going away, playing a few live games during this week, maybe go up to Edinburgh to the Casinos and work on this and come back onto the site refreshed.
After that im going to start to learn to play in small limit cash games and work my way up through them. That way ill earn a little extra if i play my best, and that would allow me to play in the tournaments and recover from bad runs such as these easy enough.
Edit: that went well now
Yea thats my old dogs, she was my pride and joy, but she thought a bus was food and i couldnt catch her in time. Miss her to bits now, but ive got my memories
Thanks, i hope that message gets to them soon, playing a bounty hunter just now, but struggling, but thats usually when i play my best. i just need to make sure i get paid for a monstar within the next 30 - 40 hands and im kool