a positive way of looking at it indeed!

I've been on a heater even though I've been largely card dead for long stretches. You lnow what hand I remember the most?

The hand when I was a donk and hit runner runner to get a boat vs a flopped straight! The best part, I ended up with over 400bb because we were both deep.

It felt so awesome to be the donk that sucked out. That's probably the happiest I've been in a long time. Because I didn't deserve that $1200. But it was mine becaise of pure dumb luck.

Now I take a break when I run bad or play bad. Bit I never get mad at my opponents, for me, I am playing against myself and my bad habbits until I can kill off those bad habbits. I've been working very little on my techical improvement and have been focus on my mental game these past 2 months.

Luckily I have a base from 8 uears ago when i use to 24 table 25nl online that gives me a foundation to rely on. But I honestly don't know all the exact odds anymore or proper spr to call, I just kind of ballpark it and go by my read of my opponents to determine my action.


Losing 3 monster PF hands in a half hour isn't a downswing. But how you handle that half hour can determine if you are going to put yourself on a downswing.

Far too many people under estimate the mental aspect of the game. The worst I've felt after a session is when I won $168. You know why? Because I was up $600 and got sucked out on and lost over $400. I ended up leaving and cashing out ahead but I was in the worst mood because I lost all that money even though I did everything right.

Now I work on avoiding those high and lows and try to just remain constant and focus on playing good long term poker.

This is excellent for mindset management. Thank you!


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details are missing. chances are you did not price out their trash and they got there.

I'm getting pretty good about saying "nice hand" and not sulking visibly when the donkage mugs me. I do get pretty silent though. I am trying to remember to just make good decisions and not worry about results if i get it in with the best of it.

raised 15 in the game to open for all 4 hands, the AK hand i was reraised by 9/7 and the KK last hand was reraised by AA. I usually open for between 10 and 15. At that table 15.

Grunch. If you need to post a thread about losing 100 bbs in a game like that, you have entitlement tilt. You clearly seem to think that because you're in a game with bad players you deserve to win. Get it fixed cause it'll hold you back. I've played 1/2 on and off for four years. I'm pretty sure entitlement tilt was a big reason why it took me four years to move out of 1/2.

Also why would you "try to stay out of the fray" against four wild players? Depending on how deep your game is it sounds like the perfect time to play some pots in position and go for thin thin value, not just nut peddle and hope to triple up.

Entitlement tilt, that's a good phrase and I think it has merit with a lot of poker players. I know I've been guilty of it too, and sometimes it takes a 1-2 week downswing before I realize that I'm suffering from entitlement tilt and that my view of the game during that time period has played a big role in the downswing that I was on.

As for "bad beats", it's all part of the game. Instead of getting aggravated because you lost when you were a huge favorite and you "should" have won the hand, remember that it's not necessarily true.

We all can be guilty from time to time of looking at an individual hand in a vacuum instead of looking at the bigger picture. We have to remember that any time our V has more than 0% equity in the hand, it means that they are supposed to win the hand sometimes. Getting your money in as a 90% favorite and losing isn't a bad beat , it's the game of poker playing out exactly as it should. In the long run we're going to win in that spot much more than we lose, but the math says that we should expect to lose sometimes. I understand very well that it's frustrating when we're losing hands at a much higher frequency than the percentages say we should be, but we just have to keep in mind that hand distribution can't be predicted, and neither can the sample size that we need in order for our actual equity to match our expected equity. The next time you take a beat, if you remind yourself that you were supposed to lose that particular hand sometimes it may put your mind to ease a bit.

well because any raise can be reraised with these guys and you need good hands to play.

No, I don't have entitlement tilt. I thought the Tendler book was excellent though and it helped me. Getting KK, AA, KK and AK in 30 minutes in a short-handed game has never happened to me before. The results stunned me. I went home. I'll come back with a better attitude but it was best to end the session right there and then. No other tables were available to move to.

looking at my long term results always makes me feel better in the short term. It's another excellent reason to keep records.

You definitely don't want to table change away from a wild game. The variance might be through the roof but so is the EV. Being scared of variance will not make you a good poker player. Just gotta ride it.

Huge +1. This topic is good enough to be debated separetely in another thread by my opinion.

i agree i tend to do poorly at those tables but the other day i won $200 from a guy who made a huge river bluff so yeah it works both ways but not usually so much of one way in 30 minutes lol

How do you lose these hands and only end up down $200??

I am basically immune to tilt, but I do have my moments of anger. I just don't let it affect my play. The hardest thing is not berating my opponents and teaching then something, especially when they make a comment about how badly I played a hand.

Not everyone can make the proper adjustments to a "wild" game. If you don't know how to change your game for the occasional maniac table, you can lose everything pretty quickly.

actually $160, the table was shortstacked but after i left three of them were over $100--thanks to me!

no doubt and i've folded good hands to trash thinking one of the donks had me beat. this led to being a "policeman" and calling one of their hands on the river that got there

OMG YOU SHOULD BE JUMPING FOR JOY THAT YOU GOT STACKED 4 TIMES AND ONLY LOST $160!!!

LOL, you're 100% right now that i think of it!

then you have been extremely fortunate. They happen. And it WILL happen to you again at some point in time.

Yeah, I'm not sure I waste my time sitting at a table like this.

Harrah's in N. Indiana, right? One reason I never make the trip there.

in 30 minutes? I hope you're right, next time i better win at least one lol

no majestic star, yeah one of them was bragging "i bought in for $50 only and i don't care." My problem is i'm the anti-dwan i have too much respect for money

it's kind of funny when you think about it. No, it's not entitlement tilt.