Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 12,053
What you need to realize is that with a deep stack comes the liability of making second best hands and losing lots of money with these second best hands. Shoving over a cutoff 3x open raise with 15 big blinds holding JJ is easy. Playing that same hand with 75+ big blinds effective is much more difficult imo.
Maybe you're calling short stack shoves too wide after you've raised preflop. Chip ev doesn't equal tournament ev. So if you're getting 2:1 on calling a shove, and you have an estimated 33% equity, it's probably a fold. Don't fall into the trap of thinking "oh, he had J9s the last time he shoved so I can call with QJo." No, that's bad poker. You need to consider your opponent's entire range when contemplating a call, and that means including the monster hands in your analysis.
Maybe you're opening solid hands and just running badly with them.
Maybe you're overplaying your one pair hands.
Maybe you're not adjusting correctly to your table dynamics.
The list goes on and on.
Regarding the mental game:
If you judge your successes and failures by your high point, then you will nearly always fail. As a result, you'll be miserable. If you make good decisions and let the chips fall where they may, you'll be a much happier poker player.
