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Originally Posted by Solomon_Peabody
There is much to be happy about in my life outside poker - I had my first $200k year in my day job, I bought a new house and car, and for the first time in my life, I can run 4 miles.... But I am so sick of losing.
Losing?! If you are making 200k and have good health, you are winning big-time in real life! You also got supportive feedback from Venice and other posters worth way more than a few buy ins or whatever ridiculous amounts coaches charge. How much would it cost to ski or play golf hourly instead of poker? For the amount you play, probably more than twelve buy-ins. Look at it this way: if you are down 3,500 in poker while earning 200,000, you are doing much better than the vast majority of professional poker players.
I suggest that you go play 10,000 hands online on Ignition NL10 and download them to a HUD. Go through every one you lost and identify where you made errors (you can see your opponents hole cards 24 hours later). Competition on NL10 is way tougher than live. If you are winning player at Ignition NL10 after 10,000 hands, you can be confident your downturn is bad luck, not poor skill. (Of course, without the loose-passives, calling stations, and multiway pots, the online game dynamics are different than live, so you'll have to adjust.)
Whether I win or lose in poker doesn't matter at all to me. It's out of my control. I do care that I play well enough that I don't hemorrhage money.
Last edited by adonson; 06-26-2022 at 04:00 PM.