Why am I stuck "dead" for months on end? Can't pick which game to play and tilt issue

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Why am I stuck "dead" for months on end? Can't pick which game to play and tilt issue

Hello.

I'm going to give you a quickish run down of my poker since I started and would like some views on why I'm soooo bad.


Ok, to start with I don't think i'm "bad" as in a fish who's in need of depositing. I'v not had to deposit since I started reading and studying more and more. I came a long way from quite often depositing nearly every day or every other day, $20.00 then $10.00 here and then $100.00 there again, the same old cycle. I then decided to make the "final" stand and deposit one final $80.00 deposit back in October. I haven't had to deposit since, so that's something I guess.

The problem I have is picking a game type and sticking to it. I can't for the love of god decide on which I'm better suited for.

One minute I'm making a profit in cash games so think this is the game for me, I then lose quite a few buy-ins and doubt my play. I then, switch back to SnG's, make a profit and then lose again, then go back to cash games. It seems if I play one and win, then lose and switch back to the other one I can more quickly make a profit...but then obviously after a while start going on a downswing.

I had a peak of around $250.00 playing cash games. I then decided one evening(boxing day evening - had a few beers), I wanted to play some Omaha. I managed to donk of around $15.00-$20.00 within a very short space of time and hands. I tilted realllly bad as it was a grind winning $10.00 in one session and to thought I just lost $20.00 so quickly tilted me. I then went on to play some 50/100 NL and Limit Hu's. I was steaming and losing every possible hand even when I had the best hand and got it in good.Annnyway, I knew I was playing out of my bankroll but wasn't playing scared, I was actually playing aggressive. To cut a long story short, within 30minutes and 60 hands I lost $190.00. I was so close to just re-loading my last $50.00 and donking the lot off but something stopped me, I dunno what. I quickly closed it all down and didn't play for a few days.

Two or Three days later I decided to load up pokerstars again and looked at my pitiful $50.00 and was soo close to withdrawing and calling it a day. I didn't do it and basically decided to grind out 25cent/$1.00 45/90man turbo's.Within a week I was upto $150.00 so was happy..I then started breaking even and struggled turning over any profit for around nearly a a month now. So I decided after watching more videos and so on, to play some cash games again. I played only 4 tables at 5nl/10nl and managed to win around $30.00 with in around 400-500 hands.

So, now I'm sat on a bankroll of around $180.00 with 3000 fpp's. I just don't know where to go or what to play. When I think about it all and look at my donking of of cash etc I'd of had around $400.00 by now which would give me more play to decide on what to play. I just don't want to get into a rut again of playing cash games and donking off a lot of money, then grinding SnG's again and just keep going around in circles... I just don't know which I'm better at, either Cash or SnG's. I can turn a profit, I just seem to do it after I've tilted to previous day or lost a lot of dollars. I can grind up from low amounts and get to $200 maybe $250 but then it's like my balance is not capable of going any higher and I lose buy-in after buy-in in some sort of poker format...


How on earth do you determine which you're "better" at? I could go of results and see maybe SnG's but I know as well if I didn't play out of my limits (Ie:50nl/100) I'd of been showing a profit in cash games...

I enjoy both formats, SnG's/tournaments tend to frustrate me more though as it's tournament life as opposed to just one hand in cash. If I lose 10-15 buy-ins in SnG's I doubt myself and switch. If I lose x amount of buy-ins or take a bad beat on a big pot after grinding for hours, I again tilt..

So it's like what do I do? lol

Thanks if you read this....
 
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1) Flip a coin to decide which game you should play.

2) Track your hourly win rate for whichever game you are playing.

3) After 5k hands (or more) start playing the game w/ the highest hourly win rate.

Also, stop attaching emotional content to money.
 
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Also, stop attaching emotional content to money.

^^this

Plus
  • BRM: you might have heard of it ;)
  • overcome Tilt: you need to understand tilt causes and measures against tilting :mad:
  • understand variance and downswings :eek:
  • getting cocky too easily ?
  • don't drink and play - never :cheers:
  • overcome the trait of being used to reloading
I will expand a bit on the last point:

To me it seems that you got used to reloading in the times where you were redepositing frequently and "just fire up a new one" whenever you hit the rail or lose your stack.

That might not be an issue as long as you're cool and relaxed but together with you being easily tilted and your limited BRM "stamina" it's a good recipy for doom. :evil:

Try this:

I'd stay away from cash for a while because of your reloading/brm/tilt problem.

Playing cash without auto top up and reload is useless imo so it's just not for you it seems at least atm.

When playing stts or mtts set yourself BRM limits and stick to them.

There are various threads in the strategy section about this. Try the golden archieve, too.

I like using round numbers like 100 buy ins for MTTs and 50 for STTs and I move up at 110% of the next limits minimum but that's just how I prefer it (I'm lazy at times :rolleyes:)


I hope you can find anything usefull in this wall of text.:)
 
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