naruto_miu
Legend
Silver Level
So your in a tourney, and your all psyched up for this tourney (You dream of the payday coming your way, if you can outlast a-couple of thousand players)...You think to yourself, why haven't you won (A big tourney), you ask yourself what your doing wrong, (Am I playing too tight, too lose, am I not stealing enough)..You look for opportunities to make things happen (But at-last it wasn't meant to be), you lose, your not even ITM....Now you repeat same tourney again, and again, and again, (Yet same result, absolutely nothing)...You become depressed, confused, bewildered. You wonder what is it about you, that you can't seem to win (This damn tourney)...Next tourney (Same one again), your in the start of this tourney, and right away this same thought crosses your mind (I'm gonna win this damn tourney), yet followed right after this thought comes this one (You've lost them all due to this or that and your just gonna lose like the rest of the tourneys before), Now I ain't a genius but this negative thought must (I would think), be a bad thing for you correct? I mean if your thinking negatively about things then the worst possible outcome will happen, (Yet you can't think positive also correct)?
I bring this up because lately I've been playing the 60k GTD tourneys on Stars, and while I haven't cashed since being back online in them, I know it's my thought process that's got to be killing me in it also (I mean, usually what happens to me is that, I'll lose 1 big hand, and then it's just all these negative, nagging thoughts flood my mind all at once, and from there on it's just a down hill spiral)...After I'm out, I'll be like it wasn't meant to be (Yet, if I follow this thought process of "it's not meant to be", then that's like/similar to believing that only lucky players win poker and/or I just suck and thus am never gonna win, so there-fore there's no point in me reading/studying/practising...I realize that one needs to get lucky from time to time to win a big tourney, Yet at the same time there's just no way I can continually be so unlucky, am I mistaken in stating this? I'm not even talking middle play near the bubble, I'm talking in terms of early stages, and just getting so unlucky early on, and I mean these negative thoughts then just hit me like a brick wall...
What I'm trying to figure out is what approach/thought process should I just take into the game with me, because my thought process for the games hasn't been positive, and I really don't know if that's because I've just suffered so many unrealistic beats that it's really getting under my skin, or if it's just me being negative, and trying to blame it on someone other then myself (For being shitty), or if it's W/E the **** it maybe...
PLZ help
thx
pokerstars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 40/80 Blinds (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
MP1 (t23700)
MP2 (t5890)
MP3 (t5850)
CO (t5820)
Button (t5910)
SB (t3210)
BB (t7120)
Hero (UTG) (t3370)
UTG+1 (t8130)
Hero's M: 28.08
Preflop: Hero is UTG with K
, A
Hero calls t80, UTG+1 bets t8130 (All-In), 7 folds, Hero calls t3290 (All-In)
Flop: (t6860) J
, 3
, 10
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: (t6860) K
(2 players, 2 all-in)
River: (t6860) Q
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: t6860
Results:
This is just 1 example But I have many similar ones, and the worst part about this ordeal is that, when I fold certain B.S hands, they end up winning, and when I'm forced to call, I end up losing, so how do you forget this thought process and move onto another positive out look? The tourney btw is a rebuy, and yes I could rebuy and do it again, yet I'd still have that negative nagging thought in the back of my mind
I bring this up because lately I've been playing the 60k GTD tourneys on Stars, and while I haven't cashed since being back online in them, I know it's my thought process that's got to be killing me in it also (I mean, usually what happens to me is that, I'll lose 1 big hand, and then it's just all these negative, nagging thoughts flood my mind all at once, and from there on it's just a down hill spiral)...After I'm out, I'll be like it wasn't meant to be (Yet, if I follow this thought process of "it's not meant to be", then that's like/similar to believing that only lucky players win poker and/or I just suck and thus am never gonna win, so there-fore there's no point in me reading/studying/practising...I realize that one needs to get lucky from time to time to win a big tourney, Yet at the same time there's just no way I can continually be so unlucky, am I mistaken in stating this? I'm not even talking middle play near the bubble, I'm talking in terms of early stages, and just getting so unlucky early on, and I mean these negative thoughts then just hit me like a brick wall...
What I'm trying to figure out is what approach/thought process should I just take into the game with me, because my thought process for the games hasn't been positive, and I really don't know if that's because I've just suffered so many unrealistic beats that it's really getting under my skin, or if it's just me being negative, and trying to blame it on someone other then myself (For being shitty), or if it's W/E the **** it maybe...
PLZ help
thx
pokerstars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.1 Tournament, 40/80 Blinds (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
MP1 (t23700)
MP2 (t5890)
MP3 (t5850)
CO (t5820)
Button (t5910)
SB (t3210)
BB (t7120)
Hero (UTG) (t3370)
UTG+1 (t8130)
Hero's M: 28.08
Preflop: Hero is UTG with K
Hero calls t80, UTG+1 bets t8130 (All-In), 7 folds, Hero calls t3290 (All-In)
Flop: (t6860) J
Turn: (t6860) K
River: (t6860) Q
Total pot: t6860
Results:
Hero had K
, A
(straight, Ace high).
UTG+1 had A
, A
(flush, Ace high).
Outcome: UTG+1 won t6860
UTG+1 had A
Outcome: UTG+1 won t6860
This is just 1 example But I have many similar ones, and the worst part about this ordeal is that, when I fold certain B.S hands, they end up winning, and when I'm forced to call, I end up losing, so how do you forget this thought process and move onto another positive out look? The tourney btw is a rebuy, and yes I could rebuy and do it again, yet I'd still have that negative nagging thought in the back of my mind