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Originally Posted by alfayed
I appreciate the advice and I'd agree 100%. I realized poker favors aggression and those aggressive players tend to win more. Another question that how is your luck of playing poker? This question seems silly but it has happened to me in the past 3 years of playing poker that 90% of the time I'm ahead before all in that turned out I get bad beat and suck out on later street. 10% I'd suck them out. I don't think this percentage relationship is healthy and I don't know how to turn it around.
I've gone through bad stretches, but they've always ended up turning around eventually (unless I was just playing in a game I wasn't a winner in, which may be the case here, but it's hard to say without knowing more about your overall play-- not that a live $360 should be that tough). In this case I suspect selective memory is playing a role here; it's easy for us to remember the times we got unlucky as being unjust for unfair, while not considering the same for the times we did get lucky.
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Originally Posted by alfayed
I appreciate your insight and personal exp. QQ on over a year or 10 months without winning, must be tough mentally or financially. How did you get over it during the tough times?
For example, you're running out of your bankroll or you have self-doubts about playing poker if it's a right call going forward.
What I normally do after bad beats is to keep learning and learning. What I meant by painful (some other folks are laughing about this which is fine) is that with the last 3 months running bad, I lost all of my profits and now my poker profit is down to zero or even negative a few hundred. Luckily I have other sources of income so I could continue. I'm curious how you managed this situation and appreciate it in advance.
I haven't really had a bankroll problem because I just move down to whatever stakes are reasonable when I'm on a losing streak. (I usually keep about 100-150 buyins of my highest game in my bankroll, and about 300-400 ABIs.) If it's pretty bad and it's affecting my mental game or my ability to enjoy playing, I take a break. I definitely don't play well if I feel like I need to win. But I also spend time studying when I'm not playing, win or lose. And I track my hands online and all of my results so I can look for patterns and hands to review.
I guess the question of what you're studying matters. And if you're online and not using Pokertracker 4 or something similar to track your hands, you're not getting the data you really need. Note any important or difficult hands from your play, live or online, to review later.
Hmm. Don't think I have anything else to add at this moment.