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Originally Posted by SteveL91
I am so incredibly frustrated and dejected. I thought I had been making a lot of progress with regards to my mental state and keeping myself on an even keel. While I never necessarily had a tilt problem, I would let things get to me away from the table when I was losing for an extended period of time. I've been going over things and I've somehow managed to lose ~30 buy-ins over the last week playing mostly .25/.5, but some .5/1 as well; I'd say maybe 3-5 are from tilt of some sort. I'm also down roughly 40 buy-ins at .5/1 since the middle of March. I really don't think I can keep convincing myself that I don't suck at this damn game any longer. Just feels like I've wasted the last 3.5 years with absolutely **** all to show for it. Oh, and I've had about 15 (I really, really wish that were hyperbole) attempts to move up blow up in my face over the last year or so; this accounts for about half of the recent losses at .5/1. My luckbox is AWESOME!!!!!!!
Not that it helps you at all, but I can identify with this.
I am looking at my all-in charts, and I'm running at 16% on the luck graph over 50k hands (450 or so all in hands), and just generally way way way down on those.
And then on my non-showdown hands, it just ends up being more of a **** beating.
If it happened so that I had 10 days of eating big plates of ****, and then I could know at some point 10 days in the future there would be constant blow jobs, then I might be able to laugh it off.
But instead it is 10 days straight of 3-6 buyin swings down, followed by one good day where I go up a whopping two buyins on a night, followed by 10 days of 6 buyin swings down again - followed up by a day like today where it ends up down 12 buyins.
Basically 1 step forward and then 15 back and over a cliff while getting kicked in the nuts.
But at this point, I'm looking at my stats and they are the same as what the "good" people are posting up here. I have watched all of the videos on three different sites, I have read every book, I read this site regularly, and I am still just getting totally ****ed in the ass.
Basically I spend an entire day of play consisting of me getting a good hand in position, I raise it, I get three callers, and then the flop totally misses me, it is checked to me and I either check it and toss the hand on the turn, or I c-bet the flop and get raised and fold to that.
Then when the board does hit me, I get it in and PokerEV shows that I'm doing that extremely well - and then I get ****ed in the ass.
One can endure anything if you know there is an end in sight. When you have repeated kicks to the nuts and you don't know if it is ever going to stop, then you have to wonder what in the **** you play for.
I make a good salary at work, but hate my job. I would so much rather play poker all of the time.
But clearly I didn't blow the right poker god... or any.