I've witnessed a few of your bad beats ang thought you've handled them very well, always been a very pleasant guy on the tables in my opinion,,, maybe a wee break will bring a new perspective and change in variance.
My first post but played plenty of DYMs with you and you seem to always be solid. I had one of those runs last night when every game I lost I was dominating - AKvAQ, A9vA2, AKvKQ, etc. The only one I lost when I was behind pre I had KK!
Keep positive - there is still plenty of value out there! The final hand from my last DYM is an example:
On the bubble, blinds 100-200, small stack has 800 left. I fold and small stack folds. SB with 3.5K in 3rd has A3 suited. Do you?
A - fold as you don't need to play the hand
B - flat call
C - min raise
D - raise to 700 and insta-call the shove from the BB who has 200 more chips than you!
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. Posted by JohnConnor
variance is either contagious among the profitable player or during the last month best hands have lost 80 percent of the time its been a complete nightmare does not make sense everyone is on about it ak cant beat a6 AA cant beat tq lol
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