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Hi all,

I'm a recreational player, mostly low stakes NLHE. I really like to play live, but mostly play online. I feel my game has gone from horrible to reasonable, at least for the level I play on. I rarely play more than two six-max tables, but have tried my hands at rush poker and liked it.

My main issue when playing online has always been tilt. It is very silly, but I go off quite easily and start to play badly. Recently I have been implementing a strict one buy-in stop loss rule, which helps a lot. When I lose 1 buy-in I quit playing for the day and do something entirely different.

However, I start to think that this rule is ridiculously strict because it does not teach me to accept the fact that in a big-bet game losing a buy-in is quite normal. For example, losing with AA against KK should typically not be a reason to quit for the day, or should it?

I'm curious about other's opinions and experiences.

Best wishes,

MG.
 
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Until you can control your emotions yea your best bet is to stop playing , you'll only keep doing the same if you keep playing , and yea a bad beat is a bad beat but you need to keep that frame of mind if you want to keep playing !
 
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I don't know what your bankroll situation is or exactly what stakes you're playing at. A one buy-in rule might be resonable if you were playing 1500NL. On the other hand, if you're playing 2NL or 5NL, then this rule is, as you put it, ridiculously strict. I admire your discipline in being able to implement and adhere to a rule like this. However, a more impressive display of discipline might be to relax your stop loss rule slightly and tame the temperment that causes you tilt.

I can understand that you don't want to go on tilt and flush your whole bankroll in one session. But you can't be afraid to lose a buy-in or two. What if some chip flinging monkey gets lucky and cracks A-A with a hand he had no business playing? Maybe that's the table you want to be at. It might be sitting there waiting for you to crush it right now, and you won't see a table with a similar collection of chip spewing donks for weeks. Rather than taking advantage of this situation, you're reorganizinng your CDs because of a self-imposed one BI rule when you should be getting your poker on.
 
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One buy in is pretty strict, but if that is what it takes for you then go with it. Sometimes I struggle with stopping if things are running bad and I end up wishing I would have pulled the plug sooner.
 
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Thank you for the swift replies.

I think I will stick to my one buy-in rule for the moment, but in the coming months I might very gradually relax it, starting with two buy-ins. Coming from 5NL I worked towards my usual online stakes of 25NL (for rush) and 50NL (for normal tables), and I feel I am properly rolled (i.e. > 25 buy-ins for the latter).

As IntenseHeat said, I sometimes do feel that I am forcing myself to leave an otherwise favorable table. A two buy-in rule allows for profiting from such spots while still minimising tilt risk.

Best wishes,

MG.
 
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I guess you are going to build a bankroll in 1000 years then ..
I'm a beginner and the best advice i had so far about BRM and losing streaks is to know how i lost my buy in.. If i lost with aces it is not a reason to stop .. but if i lose more then 2 - 3 buy in, then yeah i take a nice break to ..
 
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I agree, it goes slow.

But on the other hand, wasting five buy-ins in a tilt streak makes the process even slower. Nothing is more frustrating than playing well and raking in chips for one or two weeks and then losing half of that profit on my own stupidity.
 
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