Originally Posted by anti-bionics
I am in exactly the same position as you, I read all the pokers books,watch all the poker stars at play, and thoroughly put in dedicated time at improving my game away from the table. I even have a balanced lifestyle, I enjoy lots of other pursuits. However once I log on its the same stomach churning mind numbing process. I start playing, and I usually start playing well. I describe myself as loose aggressive, and I amass a decent pile of chips early on.
But then I'll get outdrawn with a good hand, for instance my aa77 gets outdrawn on the river by a 77..j....jj! And then the downward spiral begins. I watch my chip size shrink, I rebuild my chips size, I watch it shrink just as fast again, I dig in deeper and use steelly determination and rebuild! Then I catch another bad-beat! By now my temper takes over, and I am no longer playing, I'm simply clicking away, screaming at the flicking screen, and wondering whether pokerstars have somehow written it into their computer code so that I lose!
Before I know it, once again I have lost all.
I don't know how to overcome this problem. For one thing I find it impossible to walk away when I'm ahead, and when I behind I know that I'll only exit the table when my account is emptied.
So is there a trick, or a routine that can help this side of my game? It's like the whole psychological aspect of the game is what is F88king me up. Like knowing the best time to walk away. Protecting your chips, and not playing just because you've got five minutes to spare. If you ask me, its mastery of self discipline that will transform the average losing chump into a formidable player(me), yet I find it impossible to imbibe the correct level of discipline!
So Matt Slanksy, Masom Malmuth, and co, how does one tackle these issues. I feel that these areas could take up a whole book if some one ever decided how write about how to master them,
Urs dreadfully shattered, manic depressed, and quite possibly suicidle,
Anti-bionics
YES I WILL DEFINITELY HIRE A COACH TO HELP ME GET PAST THESE ISSUES