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am i really this bad or am i just the unluckiest player ever,
The_Don90
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OK i play over 3 sites, and live aswell. However im really on the verge of giving up on poker. Tbh i dont know wht to do anymore. I keep getting it in miles ahead and outdrawn on a consistant basis. Now before anyone says variance its short term. This is over around 500K in hands. Ok i believe im an improving player and one always open to learning and on sky i can understand a little because i do post alot of hands and people maybe do get free reads, although ive developing away from posting now to.
However my main issue is, bad beats consistantly.
Is it time to just throw in the towel ?
However my main issue is, bad beats consistantly.
Is it time to just throw in the towel ?
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Blimey Donald! Get a grip please.
Not time to throw in the towel, just play better, and handle your emotions better
I just got it all in AK v AQ, board was J828J and I was so happy not to lose !
they are simply all part of the game.
in my case i just played a few low stake dym,s
to get away from it all 4 a while.
started to win at them
which eventually saw me returning to cash again,
and winning there too.
poker is meant to be fun,
and clearly 4 you atm,it isn,t.
i,m not saying u should do the same,
but it might help 2 try something diferent.
best wishes
devon
we give and take bad beats, part of the game however annoying they may be especially when they happen at a critical stage of an MTT or a big cash pot
If you get your chips in ahead the majority then you will suffer more bad beats than someone that doesn't get their chips in good as much as you
simples, you should feel good if your going in ahead the majority
chin up
it sounds like you are winning on stts and mtts and you are prob best just to stick there. perhaps avoid big fields and large variance tourneys if they are causing you to tilt etc.
i think you need to be more honest about things. at the moment youre a losing player and if you keep blaming it on variance and luck you will remain that way. also, from the responses in this thread the situation you are in now is a regular situation and if things are getting like this then stop playing.
prob not the response you wanted but from an outsider looking in it looks like a vicious cycle that youre prob best getting away from
just my 2 cents and good luck with whatever you go for
Don - if you think you are unlucky all the time, then yes, you probably need some help with your game - more psychological than actual hand advice.
When we think we are "always unlucky", be it in poker, or life, we are, usually, deluding ourselves.
i always blame myself for things that go wrong. Even when im winning im anaysing hands. If i got lucky im probably one of the first to say i got lucky. and often an ul will be typed in the chatbox before ive got the chips in hand. I had a massive arguement with dohhhhhhhhh about how i felt i wasnt good enough. As a result of this i started looking at exits or reasons leading to an exits. Was it mistakes, tilt or bad beats, or often the case standard flips. I also took time to look at cash hands to as these are defo important.
One or two hands stick out to me inparticular. infact one major live hand for a 500BB (normal stakes, triple straddle was in play) pot stands out as a massive one ive considered 5 or 6 times. It was a standard bad beat the guy offered to run the hand 9 times on the river, i looked twice before saying anything. And convinced he had only one out (cards where face up on turn) i asked how many outs he had to confirm. He said 4 of hearts and that was it. I then refused to run it more than once for the river to land the 4 of hearts. I consider more should i have accepted those re-runs. Everything in my head said it was right but i suspect looking back surley its profitable.
Online hands stick out to. The above was clearly a bad beat. some where mistakes that i look to fix, one thing a number of experianced players say to me is i spend to much time trying to improve not enough time playing. So its not as if im not trying to improve. Others are bad beats, and a decent volume in flips.