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think i might be done with poker
lfccarl
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how can i go from be £350 up in may to been down £150 in june
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If you running playing bad at the moment I would suggest you take a few days off
or and limit your spend per week or month. If it goes no reload until the next week or month.
If it not fun stop.
If your roll is on £150 and you came from a starting balance of £20 your pretty smug and all's well , but you want a higher balance .
If your roll is £150 and you've dropped from £350 you're peeved but you still want a higher balance.
One scenario, happy the other not so much.
But they are both the same.
Play poker for the enjoyment and let the balance take care of itself.
Don't just post coolers tho, when your AA loses to KK AIPF.
If you feel its effecting your play, then take a break and come back in a day or two.
Been on a downswing all year....taking a time out really works! ( but only for a week in my case)
I did and whilst I have carried on losing, I came back with a greater sense of enjoyment, even so! I changed my game a little and haven't seen the results' benefit(yet)
My strategy now is to carry on playing to try to grind myself out of my current slump and just get that one win-or go back to my previous way of playing!
GLGL
Easy leak fix #1 is keep your stack topped to the max. Seen you let it dwindle to 3.30, when you have two full stacks at your table - that extra 70p is significant if your are getting it in right - which hopefully you are confident you should be - and scoop maxed out 3 way pot!
Not chiding, just a potential massive +17.5% edge right there, could take years of study/work to achieve that in other areas of your game - if at all!
A point of note: winning/losing pots is not always a direct reflection of how well you played! Poker is a funny/rich/complex/bedstead of a game like that - all gravy as it keeps the fish swimming:)
Sorry if have the details wrong here, was working on 2nd monitor and not specifically watching your table that I'd finished at and been too lazy to close.. but as example..
You open-limp 69s on the cutoff, as it happened I think you won a small-medium pot with a flush, lovely, but moves like that you stand to get "coolered" by the random hands you've let in from the button, SB, BB who limp behind you (you get over over-flushed 10% of the time if all 3 come along) How good you feeling with 9 high flush when all the money goes in on the river?
You need to be honest and decide if plays like this and getting the arts so not folding in the last two are affecting your bankroll or is it all just run bad?
Good luck and hope you can spin it back up
The bolded part could be part of the problem, if you tilt when on a downswing you can make the downswing so much worse, especially at the cash tables.
Also have you considered that your £350 up in May could have been due to you running really well during that month? I know that when I first noted you on the PLO8 tables you seemed to hit every board going and that does make winning a lot easier!
I don't think you have been on Sky long (correct me if I'm wrong) and certainly less than 500 tournaments is really no guide to long term profitability. On SS your current profit is less than £100 below your peak, that's not much of a downswing at £5.50 level.
This suggests that you may have lost more at cash so it might be worth keeping an eye on what formats of game you do better at.
If it's getting to you take a break and consider doing some work on your game if you want. If it's just a game then don't worry about it and treat it as such, as long as you are only playing well within your means.
I hope it turns round for you and see you at the PLO8 tables soon.
i made around £500 profit last year play the 3 months over the summer
Have you not suffered a £150 downswing before then? If so you've been lucky!