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Originally Posted by fearpermeation
Never said I mastered it but I've always felt that if you know someone is drawing and won't give up until the river you should try and pot control instead of being greedy.
Yes severe tilt issue is an understatement.
no, that mindset will always hold you back.
as mtgliaf said, your biggest issue is probably playing underrolled and caring for the money value of your chips too much. it is very understandable as well.
you feel like you are a halfway decent player, you see people making quite horrible mistakes on a regular basis, and you feel that you should be able to make money in that game bc you are way better than them and deserve it.
on the other hand it would suck to lose a few hundred bucks bc you could have bought something nice with that instead or treat yourself well, but now it´s gone. you want to avoid that ofc, but also don´t want to miss out on an opportunity to make some more money by playing a game you know you are superior than your competition.
this is a high risk business. if you want to win money, you have to wager money. you don´t know your opponents hole cards, you can´t put them on their exact hands, and often enough you are and will be wrong. you can´t be affected with that too much. but you are, since you are probably always thinking about the money value, and maybe got that losing mentality since you have been a losing player to date.
grow a roll. if you don´t have a roll, you must not be affected by it.
at the beginning I always used to play underrolled, and also lost often enough. also had severe tilt issues ofc. one thing I never did though, I was always aware if I felt the correct play was to ship, whether for thin value or as a bluff, I knew I had to make that move. could be the first hand or the last hand of the session, could be a 10c20c homegame, my first live cashgame in a casino or my first shots at higher stakes online.
you always have to be prepared to lose the money in front of you. as long as you did it for the right reasons, you will eventually profit.
and also, fix your game. not wanting players with draws to call is a pretty huge mindset leak. and there are lots more. preflop, postflop. back to basics, why do we bet? what are we accomplishing by betting?
and really be honest to yourself, what the **** am I doing? if you are lost in the middle of hands quite often, and I bet you are, you have to go back and start from the basics, no matter how long you have been playing.
hope that helped.