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Originally Posted by ac3play
Props for the positive attitude. Keep it up, gg
Thanks man. In general I'd consider my mental game to be pretty strong.
Could write a ton about it but basic points are:
1.) I've been running way worse $ and volume wise in the past.
2.) I'm prolly breakeven cEv, but just -$Ev which obv hurts the BR.
3.) Don't wanna use the term downswing, it's a term which in the past has been abused by bad regs justifying that they don't need to improve further.
4.) I think there are many positive things coming along with a loosing streak just as refreshing your game, improving mental game and getting back focus.
5.) I'm too ambicious for the game itself that improving means much more to me than hitting money goals. That's why I've decided to go with less tables instead of potentially increasing my hourly by multitabling. So I'm fine with loosing as long as my game doesn't suffer.
6.) It's just part of the game. Simple as that. Deal with it or do something else.
My year to date hasn't been overwhelming but most importantly I'm playing the best poker I've ever played which keeps me motivated. I've had 2 WCOOP 2nd chance FT's busting quite early, two FCOOP.fr FT's busting early, 11th in Bigger55 and 3rd in Bigger 109 along with many many other deep runs I can't even name here. So where do you draw the line between running good or running bad? I easily could've had a 100k year already and I easily could be down 50k already.. who knows? I don't care
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Oh and check this new inspiring interview with WSOP 6th place finisher Thomas Cannuli after busting AA<TT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtl276ZpbqA
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Played a tiny session yesterday and believe it or not but I was tilting (more in the sense of loosing focus). Long story short I've played my best game in the Big109 having a Top5 chiplead basically from the beginning until we're down to 50 players or sth and I just put myself in a really good position to go deep. Then it's break time and this is when my gf and I usually talk to on the phone (long distance relationship lol) and all of a sudden we get into this huge fight for some reason and as soon as the game continues I tell her I can't deal with this s*** right now and gotta focus. I never tilt because of poker but this affected me emotionally so I sadly lost focus and ran some super terrific bluff to gift 80% of my stack to some recreational player and busted a few hands later in like 26th after loosing a flip for what would've been a 35bb stack. Anyway not sure what else to add here, this was just super frustrating and a very rare situation imo.
Will go to the city and gym soon and then you'll find me at the tables later. GL guys