Getting over 'playing anxiety' after running bad

Originally Posted by Jordansimo

Hi guys,

As in the title, I was wondering if anyone had any similar experiences and could share any tips/advice?

I'm a HUSNG player and I've been running badly for a while. I took a few coolers and ended up taking a couple of days off and dropping down to the micro stakes just to get back into the swing of it.

I'm just playing some one dollar matches, but I'm almost getting anxious joining a match, just because I'm not making hands and playing in games where I have little fold equity.

For example, I just played someone who was limping the button, I was raising with my stronger hands and he called 100%. He also called all of my min-raises and all of my c-bets so I gave up trying and started limping the button but he was raising to about 5x with everything. He just had something on every flop, I hit less than 10% flops and never anything above middle pair. He wasn't even a competent player either, he would limp and bet twice the pot if he made a strong hand, I just couldn't do anything about it as he called regardless if I led the turn when he checked it through.

It is what it is, I'm not necessarily bothered about the hands, or that match in particular, but it's been happening for a while where I'm just running dry and it's getting inside my head. I was playing regularly at the $7/$15 level previously and now I'm getting uncomfortable joining one dollar matches, so I definitely need to find a way to get back on the horse and sort it out.

Any advice appreciated

Originally Posted by Jordansimo

Thank you everyone for the kind responses. You're all a good bunch on here, some forums you can't feel comfortable posting on for the replies you will get, but certainly not here. Thanks again and good luck all