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If it does then you either don't accept or understand how the game works, or you're playing at too high of a stake. Sounds like the first one. You're going to lose almost half of the sessions that you play even if you're good, and you can't control when you win or lose. You don't get to pick your cards and the runouts.

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09-09-2024 , 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by AskZandar

I can see why you might think that, but I'm fully conscious of how variance works in poker. It's an issue of my emotional state outside the game being affected by recent results in the game. Be that run bad or even worse, a decision I made that I'm not happy with. If I've been running well/winning my emotional state is positive, so I want to keep it that way by quitting while that's still the case.

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09-09-2024 , 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by submersible

dunno i think the sports psychology and mental aspect of poker is fascinating and also entirely disregarded by most people (similar to how studying theory / math was ~15 yrs ago). it seems like a combination of lack of confidence / self belief to me. Am maybe projecting bc i've struggled with this when changing games / occasionally player pools, but I think most strong winning players are able to see the game in terms of an hourly, and a small edge being executed thousands of times. would think the answer is to build a real foundation of self confidence via studying / winning, and if that still doesn't work would imagine it pervades throughout your life in other areas and would seek therapy lol. but regardless, mastery will build confidence in a particular skill set.

Oh yeah I wasn't disagreeing with you, only the part where you said if I had a winning graph over a million hands etc, cos I did have that and it didn't help. But yeah if I was 110% confident in every spot that'd probably help.

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09-09-2024 , 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by andymc1

would you want to quit at the smaller stakes? probably its just the higher ones where the uncertainty is highest if i had to guess (you could argue its the money but you're still playing for relatively little money at the upper bound of the stakes you mentioned)

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09-10-2024 , 07:51 AM

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Well I'm grinding up a roll again from 2nl and I've leveled up to 5nl and already it started happening again. I don't remember having much of this on previous runs until i got to 25/50nl but those were the days when I didn't really understand variance in poker, or at least had not experienced how bad it could be it first hand.