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DONT GET EMOTIONAL
Dazler
Member Posts: 3,970
Had a good run lately which bumped up my bankroll after winning quite a few tornys, BUT today i made the mistake which i thought was a lesson i had learned but obv not! I bought into a lot of games today and was playing well and big stack for first half of most of them, but it all went horribly wrong i had every hand i was playing being beat even though i was ahead on most of them, Just sick beats after sick beats constantly i decided to up the stakes with dym and try and get back what i was losing, i bubbled on most of the tornys and my bankroll was just being eaten into gradualy and ended up losing half of it in today.
I started getting emotional about it and really pee d off (I didnt cry though) it felt like everything was against me and by the end of the evening i was at the stage of wanting to get a hammer and bosh it on the lappy, i was still up on my bankroll but all the hard work i done over the last couple of nights started to be all for nothing. It reminded me off when i started playing online poker and bankroll management was not something i really cared about, but over the last 6months or so i have really done well at sticking to it, not all the time to the book but generally and i certainly enjoyed playing a whole lot more. I really cant stress enough its not nice if you start getting emotional about what your losing and sticking to around 5% even less does take out that sting and you can deal with those bad days. I was prob playing 10% and over sometimes! Those good runs can be there one day and then crash on you the next if you take risks.
So im writing this to just remind players that maybe go through this themselves or the ones that get a few reasonable wins and think im gonna buy in for bigger and buy in a lot more JUST THINK BEFORE YOU DO. You dont wanna end up hating poker because of your own foolishness and then make those constant visits to area 51 ect. Id even suggest if you are going through a bad run and you feel yourself doing something silly then speak to me or someone on the forum who knows what its like and take a deep breath and Think about what your doing and how its effecting you.
Im sure everyone on here have gone through it at some stage but have learned not to do it again but some of us go back to that darkside without realising it and then its too late. I was lucky and won a £500 gar tonight and got back what id lost in the day a bit more but as i said i was lucky you might not be so!
I know im going on a bit but really dont want players to go through what i did tonight and venting my thoughts may make you think.
GL all and be good and wise, im off to the Church of Dazler now to prey for my sinful actions today
I started getting emotional about it and really pee d off (I didnt cry though) it felt like everything was against me and by the end of the evening i was at the stage of wanting to get a hammer and bosh it on the lappy, i was still up on my bankroll but all the hard work i done over the last couple of nights started to be all for nothing. It reminded me off when i started playing online poker and bankroll management was not something i really cared about, but over the last 6months or so i have really done well at sticking to it, not all the time to the book but generally and i certainly enjoyed playing a whole lot more. I really cant stress enough its not nice if you start getting emotional about what your losing and sticking to around 5% even less does take out that sting and you can deal with those bad days. I was prob playing 10% and over sometimes! Those good runs can be there one day and then crash on you the next if you take risks.
So im writing this to just remind players that maybe go through this themselves or the ones that get a few reasonable wins and think im gonna buy in for bigger and buy in a lot more JUST THINK BEFORE YOU DO. You dont wanna end up hating poker because of your own foolishness and then make those constant visits to area 51 ect. Id even suggest if you are going through a bad run and you feel yourself doing something silly then speak to me or someone on the forum who knows what its like and take a deep breath and Think about what your doing and how its effecting you.
Im sure everyone on here have gone through it at some stage but have learned not to do it again but some of us go back to that darkside without realising it and then its too late. I was lucky and won a £500 gar tonight and got back what id lost in the day a bit more but as i said i was lucky you might not be so!
I know im going on a bit but really dont want players to go through what i did tonight and venting my thoughts may make you think.
GL all and be good and wise, im off to the Church of Dazler now to prey for my sinful actions today
Comments
I've got a couple of mates who always chase losses and it's cost them big time.
Luckily i've seen them do it so it's not something i've ever done.
If things aren't going well for me I close the poker down and go do something else.
Most of us got into poker because it's fun and it's not much fun if you're getting stressed.
i wouldnt worry to much about it everyone has done it at one point some a lot more then once thats how sites survive
ive blown a few rolls a few times literally down to 0 hits you hard and starts making you think why did i do all that hard work to just spew it away, but then its just part and parcel of the game just got to get back at it and grind it out
glad to see you got most back but as you said NEVER CHASE LOSSES, WHEN YOU CHASE LOSSES YOU LOSE A **** OF A LOT MORE !
good luck tomorrow !
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Best thing after any games you lose is to have some entertainment and a good laugh to get over the day.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1igOsQJ3t8
A cautionary tale of falling off the heater with regards to BRM. Quality. I for one would like to see more of this. You write very well, have you considered this to be the start of an occasional blog ?
edit- Just to let you know that i was so impressed with what you have to say here i made a recommendation that it should be used as the basis of a topic in an up-and-coming 865 show. Hope you don't mind man ?
I was in 1 of your £11 DYMs yesterday and you even lost your coinflip in that lol, good luck next time
Great post Dazler, it's so easy to do
So I've decided to take a few days maybe a week off from cash and come back refreshed. The only thing I've been doing really is playing the survivor each night and maybe a few DYMs. It's my first go in the survivor, bought in on Sunday and I've made it to Wednesday so far... wish me luck!