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leeisme
Rising Star
Bronze Level
Hi all,
New to the forums, great site and lots of great threads.
I've been playing poker for only a couple of years now and mostly play in small home games and micro stakes online tourneys (NLHE). Not aspirations to play professionally, but I do very much enjoy the game and the challenges it brings.
Note that I realize there is significantly more variance at the micro stakes tourneys online, but I am in no way comfortable moving up. For the last 120 days I've been about 12% ITM.
Early 2% (10%)
EM 16% (20%)
Mid. 46% (40%)
ML 24% (20%)
Late 12% (10%)
This post is definitely not about complaining about variance and bad beats, etc.
On the other hand, I'd like to hear how others deal with it because sometimes I go through swings that are pretty frustrating, like everyone else I'm sure. Card dead and flopless I call it. Crap cards most of the time and hardly hitting the flop when I'm not dealt 8/4os. Watching closely the board and player patterns online helps some as I can often manage to steal enough pots here and there to still survive for a while in tourneys when its like this, but eventually I figure you need to get some hands that connect eventually.
Particularly, I'm interested in ways that others find useful to mitigate the effects of down swings. Take a break? Just grind through and do you best to get in good with good odds?
Thanks,
New to the forums, great site and lots of great threads.
I've been playing poker for only a couple of years now and mostly play in small home games and micro stakes online tourneys (NLHE). Not aspirations to play professionally, but I do very much enjoy the game and the challenges it brings.
Note that I realize there is significantly more variance at the micro stakes tourneys online, but I am in no way comfortable moving up. For the last 120 days I've been about 12% ITM.
Early 2% (10%)
EM 16% (20%)
Mid. 46% (40%)
ML 24% (20%)
Late 12% (10%)
This post is definitely not about complaining about variance and bad beats, etc.
On the other hand, I'd like to hear how others deal with it because sometimes I go through swings that are pretty frustrating, like everyone else I'm sure. Card dead and flopless I call it. Crap cards most of the time and hardly hitting the flop when I'm not dealt 8/4os. Watching closely the board and player patterns online helps some as I can often manage to steal enough pots here and there to still survive for a while in tourneys when its like this, but eventually I figure you need to get some hands that connect eventually.
Particularly, I'm interested in ways that others find useful to mitigate the effects of down swings. Take a break? Just grind through and do you best to get in good with good odds?
Thanks,