TILT ALERT......
So guys I had a loosing session yesterday, and break even one today. So i was ready to quit. I then decided to play a $10 HU, won it, and another, I thought ok I will just play 1 $22 but accidently clicked $33 lost 2 games to one guy before realising, then I went on tilt, played him in the 3rd one and my queens got cracked by two under cards so now I'm fuming $100 n didnt even see it cuming, so me being me, just sed a quick $110 n thats me done, I get the biggest donk in the history of the world, POTTING N GOING ALL IN FOR SMALL POTS. so i wait n wait n finally I see the best two looking cards in the deck, AA, i raise 120 n he calls, flop is q32 rainbow n he clicks POT. I have 1000 so I dont wana scare him away, turn cums 8.. POT.. yes my dream come true, he turns over q2 offsuit, strange way to play the hand but then I checked his stats n he was MASSIVE dwn so I gathered the reasons. Before carrying on the tilt I fort man I worked so hard grinding the tables to do this whole tilt thing again, the first thing I thought was I'ma let myself and some of you guys down if I continue these bad bankroll skills, after all I still have $2100 on here why tilt? Thats much better than I had hoped for so soon, so I wrote this blog for few reasons.
1) Evidence that I'm not cut out yet for the swings of the $26 dolla game yet, although I have an average profit of $18 dollas a game in them and will deffinately play them again soon, but will rebuild what I lost today in the $10 games first before I do n keep doing so I will use $2000 as my cut of point for them so I will still mix a couple in my next session maybe.
2) Shows that we all go of the rails sometimes but the important thing is I managed to stop even though a little damage was done but not cotastrophy.
3) I wanted to say sorry to the guys who I have been leading a good example to about money management and show you guys it just doesn't pay hopefully I will teach you never to start cheating your bankroll because its something I used to do alot to regain big loosing sessions and its just better to walk away and play another day.
4) To calm myself down and to read to myself what I know is correct sometimes you can think things but just need to write them down to get them to make sense in your head, pokers confusing sometimes but through money management I will make it to the top I know I can so I need to keep telling myself to money manage better and to control tilt.
So guys, although a boring blog, I hope it has been useful, it has made me happy already and made me smile to myelf that I lost the minimum. I would like some feedback, maybe telling me off, maybe some constructive thoughts on things that help you when you have a loosing session, after all we may be good poker players but we are human beings at the end of the day.
Hold tite.
RYHUNDO.
Comments
Man, your post is one of the most interesting... not boring at all. The main problem is just that: we are humans. And the second problem is that aces vs Q2 off win 88%, but DO lose 12%, so you MUST lose once in ten times and should expect to lose.
Listen here: yesterday and the day before I had been in the middle of my worst losing streak ever! I have blasphemed like I never did. Iâve lost every coin flip and I lost 8 dominating hands (i.e. AK vs AJ) in 10 times. After that, I played 5 hours just to regain lost money, and after a hard work I did it.
Then I asked to myself: why am I getting angry if I know FOR SURE that I am gonna regain all the money and then earn again?
Today Iâve started my first âsea-sessionâ of poker with that question in mind and I have been cracked KK by 3-7 and AQ by A4. Iâve looked at my wife and told her âas usual Iâm not lucky... but I donât get angry cause I know I am gonna crack them allâ. Well, after 1 hour and a half I have terminated the session with +100â¬, going over my record and over +1000⬠total profit (over +1340â¬, considering bonuses). And, most important, without that angry face I have had in the past days.
If grinding has to be our work, we have to do it smiling, not getting angry... even when we get beaten by donks. About donks, I use to thank God for their being... when I go allin with QQ and someone calls with J8, I thank God and sometime donât look at the table anymore... in any case I am happy, even if he wins.
So letâs keep playing our A game with a smiling face and weâll have good work, good earning, good time.
Yes you are correct my mistro friends. I am actually a calm guy for the amounts of beats I take, like in mtt sngs u only win 1 every like 14 n maybe cash in 1 or 2 and I'm getin it in good in early game around 80-90% of the time with aa kk n maybe qq depending on the situation to under pairs or to aq or something and in the late game I get it in worse but still am good when called like 65% of the time and hardly ever anything but a 60/40 when I have shuved light but its not the beats that actually tilt me. I have no care in the world about the beats beacause I laugh at them I am happy getin bad beated because I know I'm making money from that bad beat in the long run. Its the money in my account I have spent in my head, the stats, the mis click I $33 comp, people around me thinking I have lost when its just varience because they don't know anything about poker...
BUT
It doesn't last long, I am fresh to death dressed to impress today so its all good.
I am just about to hit the gym now and will get str8 on the poker session when I get back, will only be able to play one session as I am nackard with all these late nights. I will think long and hard about my July goals and will really stick to them, I just really cant wait until I play fulltime man.. YEAH BABY.
Anyways Giu, your stats are looking HOT....keep it up my fellow grinder.. I might hit a couple of STT sngs along with the $26 45man just as they fill up because I haven't played one in a while and woun't harm to get a couple in now and again.
Peace out..
Hey Ryhundo,
Ur grand for the simple reason that you wrote about the drop, and u can come back to the tables level headed tomorrow. U are still running brilliantly, so you should take a lot of positives from your start, and if your feeling things are going bad and the tilt alert is ringing in your head, you can look back on this post and say not this time. Stats speak the truth, and you are killing it at the moment. Gl in your next few hundred.
les