How to Deal With Periods of Runbad

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In my gaming practice, often there is a period of failures. Even with the best hand before the flop when you bet all your chips, you lose and are eliminated from the tournament . I usually stop playing for a while. What are you doing?
 
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Break to do,only to understand when...Is doing well,and basically continued to play...
 
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A good idea is to take a break and take you mind completely from the game. This will refresh you and restart your game.
 
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I think there can be no luck or failure this is the whole mood or self-hypnosis ))
 
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In my gaming practice, often there is a period of failures. Even with the best hand before the flop when you bet all your chips, you lose and are eliminated from the tournament . I usually stop playing for a while. What are you doing?

Load the next tournament :fight:
 
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You are correct when you stop playing when the variance is very high, if you continue to play you will only lose more money, I usually do just that, it's no use trying and losing even more
 
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I like chocolate, it is smooth in the mouth, melts on the fingers and can be licked off. If you drop you chocolate piece on the ground do you...
a: dust off and eat
b: complain to the god of chocolate (Aztec god who needs ritual payment in blood)
c: wash chocolate and eat
d: pick up next piece and melt in mouth as before.

It is the same a poker lost game.
a: start new tournament with thoughts about last one.
b: complain to anyone who will listen including poker god. (Poker god requires payment in USD$ and blood for his payment to chocolate god, and payment in calm sweet talk to lady of Luck)
c: read books on poker to learn. Then play again with new ideas.
d: Open extra window and play 2 tournament at once.

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Yes, I have the same periods.. and only a rest from the game can help sometimes
 
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If you are out on a bad beat it doesn't mean you are playing badly so take a little break so you are fresh for the next time you play but just accept that it might take a few tries with bad beats before luck is on your side and you win something.
 
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It is impossible to deny that luck exists. Self-hypnosis is not to blame. There's just this wave of luck. The main thing to feel it and at this time the most to play for big prizes. Good luck at the tables!
 
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I pause watching some sort of Comedy film and I lifted the mood for the next day to play again
 
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I, too, after a few losses, take a break in the game and give free time to training and watch various videos with the game of professionals.
 
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If I get my money in good then I tend not to worry a bunch about the results. It will all even out over a bigger sample size.
 
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Taking a break will for sure help to turn variance around lol.
Taking a break won't change anything except calming down your nerves.
Menthal strenght is for sure one of the main attributes of a good poker player.
If you can stand the bad beats, don't take a break and continue playing, maybe in the long run you will have more''luck''.
 
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A little break is needed in order to left the wave of failure! I'm superstitious and this is my opinion.
 
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What I do in these cases, is to stay away and go to break something, then come back and I still play relaxed. It's a joke, but not a bad idea, in those cases I'm always optimistic and waiting for a good hand to take my revenge
 
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Great idea

Great idea to play two tournaments at a time, I did it and it refresh yur mind, always takeing a break will do the work, get some sleep, tray not to think in poker.
 
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Allin preflop is very tricky bussines. So, read some books about that.
Preflop cards are only starting positions. And math is not so simple.
I think is that is common problem if you think that your holding cards resolve the game. Its rookie way of thinking, especially if you wont to shoot allins all in he time.
Think, every time when you go all in, you can leave the tournament, and if are 3 or 4 players go allin it is not preferable at all.
 
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In my gaming practice, often there is a period of failures. Even with the best hand before the flop when you bet all your chips, you lose and are eliminated from the tournament .
That's why I mostly play freerolls,so I don't have to worry about losing any money when I get eliminated.
 
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In my gaming practice, often there is a period of failures. Even with the best hand before the flop when you bet all your chips, you lose and are eliminated from the tournament . I usually stop playing for a while. What are you doing?

I like to stay a little quit studying but playing and doing exercises for a few days without actually playing can sometimes help.
 
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I take some pause in the game to get my brains rested.
 
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Hi! Idea to take a break is not good, just dont play. Never... that will be best))
 
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Why not just wear a tinfoil hat.... or maybe set a few pyramids up on your desk?

Seriously though... as long as you're playing well..... the solution >> just keep playing well. If getting beat or experiencing a succession of beats (&/or badbeats) causes you to play non-optimally due to tiilt, then learn how to overcome that tilt (truly understanding variance will help..... & then accepting it will help some more). Stopping play won't change anything aside from perhaps losing more if you're playing badly.
 
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