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Legend
Silver Level
Lately I've been having some difficulty (not tilt wise but more feeling like I'm running in circles) with sessions suddenly turning south where suddenly draws start missing over and over, flopping flushes only to see villian flopped one higher, villians shove junk and catch miracle 2 outers on rivers, etc etc. I'll be up a bit across multiple tables then suddenly just start getting smacked on the river over and over.
It literally feels in the moment like the deck just changes and suddenly every hand that was winning is now losing.
Obviously it's mostly variance and also just how it goes and I know mental game wise it doesn't matter if I end a session up or down (because we can win/lose it the very next time we sit down anyways) but it still feels like a challenge when you get that results oriented thinking seeping in : "if only I left the session 2 min earlier!").
I've looked over this sessions and I'll be up a buy in or two and then "it" happens and I end the session and most of the profit is gone. And often the EV won will be higher than what I "won."
Rationally, and I've seen this first hand through volume of play, if I just keep on playing I sometimes end up winning some of the profit back again...like a natural ebb and flow over hundreds of hands.
So how do you all deal with creeping results oriented thinking when a good session suddenly turns cold and brutal? For me, I just make sure I was making good plays and accept that regardless of whether I left 2 min ago or now, the deck has no memory and I could've won more or lost all that profit the next session anyways/
It literally feels in the moment like the deck just changes and suddenly every hand that was winning is now losing.
Obviously it's mostly variance and also just how it goes and I know mental game wise it doesn't matter if I end a session up or down (because we can win/lose it the very next time we sit down anyways) but it still feels like a challenge when you get that results oriented thinking seeping in : "if only I left the session 2 min earlier!").
I've looked over this sessions and I'll be up a buy in or two and then "it" happens and I end the session and most of the profit is gone. And often the EV won will be higher than what I "won."
Rationally, and I've seen this first hand through volume of play, if I just keep on playing I sometimes end up winning some of the profit back again...like a natural ebb and flow over hundreds of hands.
So how do you all deal with creeping results oriented thinking when a good session suddenly turns cold and brutal? For me, I just make sure I was making good plays and accept that regardless of whether I left 2 min ago or now, the deck has no memory and I could've won more or lost all that profit the next session anyways/
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