I play 1-2NL. I always bring 200 to start. Every time I build up my stack to 400. Then I end up losing everything. I think I’m better than the avg person. I don’t know if because I get my stack that large so I make bonehead plays. I think it’s a discipline issue. Does anybody have any suggestions on what I can do?

Study deep stack play. AA is just one pair.

play 2-4

So while observing you lose every time, your conclusion is you are better than the average person?

When you get to 400, leave the table

How sixfour can come up with these elegant, deep thinking solutions constantly amazes me

It's obvious. He doubles his stack every time. With 100% frequency. It's guaranteed. So he just needs to wait until that happens then leave. He will make $200 profit every single night, and make $73000 a year. He can already go pro.

he is probably trolling.
or he believes his own BS one or the Other.
As soon as someone says ALL THE TIME i know the caliber of IQ I am dealing with.

Dude I thought I was the only unlucky bastard today I was playing 2 NL as well I think I play pretty decent compared to the competition, but I get Coolered Too much, trips over bigger trips, a full houses of nines against a full houses with TT crazy all of this happened in less than an hour, I was making pretty good profit and the lost it all in the Monster hands unbelievable it fills like the poker cite is rigged sometimes.
I've been trying to hustle the welcome bonus they give but it seems imposible when you get coolered the **** up every time ****K!

Giving op the benefit of the doubt that it’s not a troll, in which case he’s actually here looking for help, I think it’s a bit mean spirited to make statements like this; is that how you handle people that you believe are not as intelligent as you are in real life? If you judge people by how intelligent they are in order to look down on those that are less intelligent than you are, I would think that you’re doing it wrong.

I don’t know what it is...I think I’m better than the average person

Step one would be keeping actual track of how you do in a game because there's 0 chance you double your stack every time. Keeping track of what happens will allow you to make adjustments, right now you're basically asking us how to not donk off your stack and we have nothing to go on but your perception that you're above average.

Ghostman out of curiosity where do you play? Just wondering if there are other game types available to you.

What you're describing sounds like a simple consequence of no-limit hold'em to me. No-limit literally means at any given point you might have to put your whole stack at risk no matter how big it is.

I had a friend buy into a $1/$2 game for $200, within about 4 hours build it up to $2000, then he got into a set over set (my friend had top set) against the only villain at the table who had him covered. The villain one-outered him on the river and he lost the whole $2000.

I play mainly fixed-limit hold'em. There was a session I got dealt KK the first hand, flopped an overpair, bet it hard 3 streets, and the other guy had AA. If this had been a no-limit table I'd have lost my whole buyin the first hand (I'd definitely have gone all-in preflop) and been done for the night.

This is going to sound condescending but it's actually a serious suggestion - look for fixed-limit games instead of no-limit games. You might find them more comfortable and/or more fun because you NEVER have to put your whole stack in the middle regardless of its size. Don't get me wrong, you'll still experience fluctuations (everybody does) but at least they won't be on one hand.

Hope that helped.

ghostman the other thing that might help, since you're a new poster (welcome!!!) is to give us some idea of your background - how long have you been playing, live online or both, what books have you read, what coaching have you received etc.

It also seems like this thread might be useful to you (not that I'm biased or anything):
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...poker-1571532/

I started playing when I was 18(I’m 34 now). When I was 21 I use to play a lot because I was now old enough for the casino. I then stoped playing when I was 25. Now I’m 34 and I’m getting back into it. I’m at the moment reading Harrington on Cash Games volume 1. I think you hit the nail on the head. A limit game will be more suited for me.

Everyone thinks they are above average. Half of those people are wrong (yes, I know this is not a mathematically correct statement, but the statement 'Everyone thinks they are above median, but half of them are wrong' just doesn't sound right).

You really need to develop some self awareness
1. What is your true win rate and sample size?
2. How consistently do you folow the pattern you describe above? Is it really happening the majority of time, or are you now just a victim of confirmation bias?
3. When you are in the winning part of your game, how do you win? Are you just getting lucky and running good or hitting draws, or are you making good decisions?
4. When you are in the losing part of your game, how do you lose? Are you getting sucked out on, or are you making bad calls or bluffs?
5. What changes between those two points? How does your decision criteria change, and what changes occur in your underlying thought process or emotional state that drives the change in your play?

You should read Jared Tendler's books, they will help you identify the sources of tilt that could be altering our game play.

Live poker is both hilarious and informative for observing the level of delusion that people operate under.

What is probably happening is that you're not adjusting to your larger stack, but your oponents are.
If you keep playing like you play a 100bb stack and value the strength of your hands according to that you'll get wrecked.