Am i the only one with an ego problem at the table?

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Guys i need help my ego continuously gets in the way of my play. I'll be deepstacked on a 1-2 game with 200bb. The moment i see one of these kids raise me or "act confidently" against me it's like my ego gets in the way and i put them All-In" knowing that there hand is probably stronger. I'm just so upset atm. Just called off my whole stack and ut was a TOTAL EGO DRIVEN CALL
 
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Obviously it is a kind of tilt. Perhaps you will be helped by recommendations to combat it.
 
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ohh man i have the same problem u not the only one.but knowing u get tilt becouse some player act confidently against you at the table and make u goes all in then u have big issue my friend hehehe. maybe play some music can help you relax while playing poker. GL GL
 
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Guys i need help my ego continuously gets in the way of my play. I'll be deepstacked on a 1-2 game with 200bb. The moment i see one of these kids raise me or "act confidently" against me it's like my ego gets in the way and i put them All-In" knowing that there hand is probably stronger. I'm just so upset atm. Just called off my whole stack and ut was a TOTAL EGO DRIVEN CALL


That goes away after you’ve been playing for a while(mostly)
If you learn poker strategies, it’ll be less about each hand and more about sticking to your game
 
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I had such a problem.I analyzed it and realized that at the moment I'm just not ready for the game.
And I was finishing the game. This strategy helped me.
 
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you will not have problems with the ego, if you all will be considered equal players, maybe you considered yourself better than the other and paid for it
 
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we must learn to control, costs a lot, but try, if you see someone going all in, and you have nothing, not bad not to go, a good player learns to throw hands and lose some chips,
 
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Guys i need help my ego continuously gets in the way of my play. I'll be deepstacked on a 1-2 game with 200bb. The moment i see one of these kids raise me or "act confidently" against me it's like my ego gets in the way and i put them All-In" knowing that there hand is probably stronger. I'm just so upset atm. Just called off my whole stack and ut was a TOTAL EGO DRIVEN CALL

My advice on this matter is simple: Breath and count to three. If after breathing and counting you still find the need to call knowing that the villain may have a stronger hand, then I would suggest you to ask yourself in loud voice if you really wanna lose part of your stack, like: "man, do I really wana risk to get rekt?", this normally works when I get to the tilt nation :rofl:
 
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I think that it’s easier said than done to just fold against someone, especially when there’s a personal fire inside of you raging to prove a point against an opponent.

However that is the exact reaction they may want from you so it’s important to take yourself back to the fundamentals of what made you a good poker player in the first place. You know that your ego gets in the way of the game so take a step back, think more logically and rationally about how they are/have been playing and really assess what you have against what they could have, and remember it is rarely ever too late to fold and no one can judge you if they don’t know what you had. In addition it may make it the right play, which will hurt them even more.
 
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Every great athlete has a superior attitude,,,same with poker,yes your Ego can be a problem if you let it,but then that`s what separates us,doesnt it? You got to swallow hard sometimes and make those hero folds,,,aint easy,if it was,,,well. :ciao:
 
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Guys i need help my ego continuously gets in the way of my play. I'll be deepstacked on a 1-2 game with 200bb. The moment i see one of these kids raise me or "act confidently" against me it's like my ego gets in the way and i put them All-In" knowing that there hand is probably stronger. I'm just so upset atm. Just called off my whole stack and ut was a TOTAL EGO DRIVEN CALL



Try watching a show or having something in the background. It can be distracting but in a good way. It’ll make you look at your cards and what’s on the table to make your bets and calls instead of developing a grudge against a player as you get into the later stages. This is defiantly a form of tilt your suffering from. You need to realize that as you go through the different phases of a tournament you also go through phases of having good cards, mediocre cards and bad cards. You have to look at the cards in your hand and concentrate on making your decisions purely based on the hand you have. Ignore other people and don’t take unnecessary risk. Remember if you’ve gone for a while in a tournament and have a nice large stack of chips then you should only play premium hands and/or your position there steal blinds when they get high enough. Once the bubble bursts then become more aggressive to build your stack some more for the final table. Just remember a good fold is a lot better than trying to shove someone who is playing their good cards with conviction. You need to remember that in order to succeed in poker. Hope you learn some from this forum and your experience so you can improve and get passed this dilemma.
 
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There seems to be a lot of people doing that these days. I play in plenty of tourneys that they will do that. A lot seem to need to play EVERY single hand.
The other players also get cards from the same deck, makes sense that once in a great while they will also have a hand to play. Betting less than ideal cards is one thing, knowing you have a greater chance of being behind than winning, and still calling. This is the time to fold.
I have been called more than a handful of times by someone that doesn't even have a high card in their hand. Don't get me wrong I love taking their chips.
More sites are having available the stat counts, this is where you can see the percentage of hands that you have seen the BB for instance, also it shows the percent of total hands played. I am positive that for some players the percent has to be close to 90 easy.
 
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I used to be same way,thinking players were making a move on me because I made a bad call or another donk play. Truth is they are not playing games with you and you should focus on playing poker not politics at the table.
 
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Listen to music on headphones or focus on something that makes you block out everything else except the game.

Remember you are there to win money. Nothing else.
 
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I have struggled with this from time to time myself. I will say I have gotten a lot better after I was fortunate enough to see Mike Caro speak at a conference of sorts quite a few years back. He put things in perspective in regards to winning vs losing and how in the end losing less chips is akin to winning more. In your case it's ok to consider yourself a better player than the others, I would just work on trying to not let the others know you feel this way so as to remover the "target" off your back so to speak.
 
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I believe that the main problem for all players on the road to success is the lack of management skills for the emotional state. People are overemotional creatures, and feelings too often take up the mind. Especially in critical situations, and at the poker table they happen too often. In this way, bots have a huge advantage over people. Where the angry man goes all in, the bot without emotions will radiate the card in pass.
 
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it's very convenient to call your bad ego game and complain about the kids who insult you :)
 
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You should be aggressive in certain situations pf the tournament .. on the bubble as for example
If ypu are a big stack try not to make loose calls
 
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I think that it’s easier said than done to just fold against someone, especially when there’s a personal fire inside of you raging to prove a point against an opponent.
However that is the exact reaction they may want from you so it’s important to take yourself back to the fundamentals of what made you a good poker player in the first place. You know that your ego gets in the way of the game so take a step back, think more logically and rationally about how they are/have been playing and really assess what you have against what they could have, and remember it is rarely ever too late to fold and no one can judge you if they don’t know what you had. In addition it may make it the right play, which will hurt them even more.


I like this answer! Kinda sums it all up, there needs to be a place you come back to in these situations as to think with a clear head but making the right play is the best revenge. I struggle with Ego all the time, Something I need to keep in check if I'm ever going pro!
 
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The mental game of poker is a great book. It is written by Jared Tendler. I highly recommend it. It has helped me a lot with mental aspects of the game such as you are describing.
 
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Basically poker is a fight for the blinds, and when we bet, we are in a position, where we expect to make money (or win chips in tournaments), because otherwise we would not be betting. However when we get raised, now we are in a position, where we expect to lose money except those few times, where we are at the absolute top of our range.

So basically someone is fighting back at us, and its not a good situation for us. So its easy to get emotional about it, but its also very important not to. After all raising is part of the game. We do it to other people, so of course they are also allowed to do it to us. Its not like, its some kind of personal insult to get raised.

Sometimes we might feel, that other players are out of line against us, and maybe they are. But even then it is important to be analytical about it and react in a rational way. If someone raise to much, we can look to widen our calling range and throw in some more re-raises, but if we are at the bottom end of our range, we still need to fold.

If for instance we open K9o from CO and get 3-bet by a very aggressive player in the small blind seat, now is not the time to fight back at him with a 4-bet. We just need to let it go, because if our 4-bet get action, we are completely toast, and we have a lot of other hands, that are better to turn into bluffs. Hands like A2s-A5s for instance. Instead a reasonable adjustment is to nit up a bit and not open hands like K9o, so that next time he 3-bet us, we are less likely to have a hand, that has to fold.
 
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one player constantly raise you and being aggressive going all - not sure why i sometimes in the end call with a semi good hand instead of just wait for the monster hand. just getting irritated the player steal all the time and you know he is bluffing like 9/10.

i have taught myself to ignore a player like that and just play my own game!

but actually sometimes if you have the stack - do it yourself (being the irritating player betting and raising and stealing), more often someone get annoyed and calls with semi bad hands😂

not recommandable if you play a serious tournament but freerolls and micro - you will get a long way doing that sometimes, just know your table!
 
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but actually sometimes if you have the stack - do it yourself (being the irritating player betting and raising and stealing), more often someone get annoyed and calls with semi bad hands😂

Yeah I agree, especially in freerolls and very low buyin tournaments, as you say. You sometimes see people open jamming or rejamming KK or AA for 75-100BB and get called by the most incredible hands like KJ offsuit. Which, I mean, what was the guy thinking? Even if the players going all in is out of line with a small pair or a rag ace, KJ offsuit is still losing money by calling it off. But some people have this strange urge to police the tables.

Yesterday I played a DON, which is not a format, I have much experience. It was on 888 poker, and its a super fast structure, where you start with only 25 blinds. At blind level 2 I started open jamming over limps, which I think is the correct play in a structure, where there is huge ICM pressure on anyone considering a call, and stacks of around 16-17BB.

The third time I had AQ, someone decided to be a hero with AT, and he scooped the pot. I was almost out, but before I busted, someone threw a tomato on me to indicate, that I got, what I deserved. But realistically its the guy calling with AT, who made the mistake, and he just got lucky this time.
 
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