V
vis
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Hi,
I recently jumped from FR to 6max. I decided it would be good for my game and probably more fun (how ironic) than staying a nit at FR. Right now I've played 50k hands on 10NL and so far I've been running 25 BI's -EV. I'm up to the point where I feel like somehow I'm the perceived fish at the table as I cannot even achieve a positive (yup, after 50k hands I'm a pretty big loser) decent winrate at 10NL (10NL ffs!!), whereas at fullring I was able to maintain a ~6bb/100 from 10NL to 50NL.
Although I feel like - besides the negative allin-ev - I've also been insanely unlucky on tons of turns and rivers, I think the worst part is I'm still trying to adjust and learn the game of 6max but since I've been running horribly since hand 1 in chapter 6MAX I'm never getting any confirmation I'm actually playing accordingly. Even worse the confidence in my own game is sloping downward which leads to bad calls and probably stupid laydowns because more and more you start getting doubts on your game when you keep folding rivers over and over again when another villain bombs it for the 5th time in a row when you barreled twice otf and turn with TPTK. I can't even tell how many buyins I lost because I thought it could NOT be possible they had outdrawn me again, I guess everybody's got a breaking point. And for what it's worth, it's not the money loss. It's the fact you put so much effort in elavating your game by reading/studying etc, building confidence. And then variance takes a visit and treats you like a kid pulling off the wings of a suffering fly.
I guess I could need some advice on how to recover both my confidence as my drive/motivation to keep playing poker.
EDIT: Also would like to hear how to deal with tilt in these downswings. Already bought the book The Mental Game of Poker, hope that can help me out a little bit. Because to be honest after 10k hands I was basically an intoxicated tilt machine (which also cost me a new mouse lol)
I recently jumped from FR to 6max. I decided it would be good for my game and probably more fun (how ironic) than staying a nit at FR. Right now I've played 50k hands on 10NL and so far I've been running 25 BI's -EV. I'm up to the point where I feel like somehow I'm the perceived fish at the table as I cannot even achieve a positive (yup, after 50k hands I'm a pretty big loser) decent winrate at 10NL (10NL ffs!!), whereas at fullring I was able to maintain a ~6bb/100 from 10NL to 50NL.
Although I feel like - besides the negative allin-ev - I've also been insanely unlucky on tons of turns and rivers, I think the worst part is I'm still trying to adjust and learn the game of 6max but since I've been running horribly since hand 1 in chapter 6MAX I'm never getting any confirmation I'm actually playing accordingly. Even worse the confidence in my own game is sloping downward which leads to bad calls and probably stupid laydowns because more and more you start getting doubts on your game when you keep folding rivers over and over again when another villain bombs it for the 5th time in a row when you barreled twice otf and turn with TPTK. I can't even tell how many buyins I lost because I thought it could NOT be possible they had outdrawn me again, I guess everybody's got a breaking point. And for what it's worth, it's not the money loss. It's the fact you put so much effort in elavating your game by reading/studying etc, building confidence. And then variance takes a visit and treats you like a kid pulling off the wings of a suffering fly.
I guess I could need some advice on how to recover both my confidence as my drive/motivation to keep playing poker.
EDIT: Also would like to hear how to deal with tilt in these downswings. Already bought the book The Mental Game of Poker, hope that can help me out a little bit. Because to be honest after 10k hands I was basically an intoxicated tilt machine (which also cost me a new mouse lol)
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