Hi,

It's been almost 2 years since I started playing poker.

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As you can see, I already played a few hands in my life.
I started on NL2, moved up quickly to NL50, was grinding it for a while, full of hopes and expectations and then... it was black friday and the b/e stretch has begun.
I'm not sure if the games became that much tougher, variance has changed or I just got less smart, but it crushed my mindset.
The problem is - every next month I play less and less. I lost faith in poker. I started to believe b/e is the best I can do. I moved down to NL25, but it didn't really help. I struggle hard every day to open some tables, and then, I finish session after like 1k hands satisfied with not losing too much.

So far, in 2012 I played maybe 10k hands and don't know what to do.

Have you got any idea what can I do to regain my confidence, my enthousiasm? What should I do to start grinding again?
Moving down didn't help. Taking a break didn't help. Setting new goals didn't help (cause I don't really believe i can achieve anything by playing poker). Maybe, I should stop fighting with myself and quit poker?

quit poker if you don't enjoy it anymore. the worst thing you can do is just try to force something like poker...it just results in losing $. you can try to learn a new game or new format (tourneys/cash/sngs/etc).

^^this is probably the best advice you will find here^^ it is a game at the end of the day, if you dont enjoy it anymore just find something else to spend your time on

Take some time off. If you really love it you'll get the motivation back in a month or so

Today I saw a post like this one.. Like I said to the other guy, try to learn another format game like SNG or HUSNG if you are not doing well in your format right now.

If you dont want to change format just try to see what leak you are having in your actual game I am sure there is one or more.

Keep it up man.

+1. Nothing wrong with quitting. You can use that time for other endevours. Good luck!

guess he quit

Maybe some mental training can help you. Didnt listen to it yet myself though.

"Full Coaching Session: Confidence/Fear

The winner of the “Win a Kindle/Coaching” contest was nice enough to post the full recording of his coaching session in the hopes that it would help others with confidence or fear problems"

http://jaredtendlerpoker.com/instruc...onfidencefear/

The only way to have confidence is to win money.

Find a game you can beat (its out there). Stay for a while and take shots at higher ones.

A primary source of income and mental coaching.

Maybe try coaching poker or even writing a few poker e-books. That seems what many people in your position are doing these days.