£200 NLHE Full Ring: Gets straight on river

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Hi, was playing live poker after a constantly losing money since I began playing this month. Went in with 100, slowly went to 30 and back to 110 in 3 hours. On the last hand villain had 7/8, no flush possible and there were 2 10s, i put him on a low range and had pockets As. He went all in, so did I as based on my read. He had to hit a Queen to beat me and he did. I am devastated, dont know if I could've played any batter and thinking of quitting poker. :(
 
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If you are not comfortable playing poker, take a break.
What is the use of losing money and feeling bad.
It's logical that it affects you when you lose a hand, but your life shouldn't get worse just because of that. Not worth it.
Play for fun whenever you want and have money to use in poker.
Greetings.
 
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If you are not comfortable playing poker, take a break.
What is the use of losing money and feeling bad.
It's logical that it affects you when you lose a hand, but your life shouldn't get worse just because of that. Not worth it.
Play for fun whenever you want and have money to use in poker.
Greetings.
Based on what I said, did I play the hand well ? I am mainly devastated due to the chance of him beating being nearly 10%.
 
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you played well, luck was not on your side.
 
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If you intuited that for something it would have been. Otherwise you had combos like kj j9 that brought about 15 cards that would dormant you if they went out in the nearby streets. If one of your reynas was the board stick, at least you blocked the blush a little.
 
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If you intuited that for something it would have been. Otherwise you had combos like kj j9 that brought about 15 cards that would dormant you if they went out in the nearby streets. If one of your reynas was the board stick, at least you blocked the blush a little.
Not gonna lie, didint get half of the stuff you said.
 
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Good evening;
There are days when nothing works, if we lose an all-in with AA to an opponent with a marginal hand, we get angry! We'll try to win the money anyway, playing angry without thinking about the moves and without patience.
At such times we should take time off, rest, get relaxed and then start the game with patience and logic.
 
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Bad beat/Variance is just part of the game. You will get used to it when play more. As long as you make right decision, you should feel good and don't tilt. And mental game is also very important.

Last week I also got a big suck out in live game, top set all in on the flop against 3rd pair with backdoor flush draw and villain made runner runner flush.
 
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Hi, was playing live poker after a constantly losing money since I began playing this month. Went in with 100, slowly went to 30 and back to 110 in 3 hours. On the last hand villain had 7/8, no flush possible and there were 2 10s, i put him on a low range and had pockets As. He went all in, so did I as based on my read. He had to hit a Queen to beat me and he did. I am devastated, dont know if I could've played any batter and thinking of quitting poker. :(

If you want us to review your hand, you need to post a complete hand history. What were your exact starting cards (if suits dont matter, just make them up), what was the preflop action, what was the flop, what was the flop action, what was the turn card, what was the turn action. Without this information your hand is basically just a bad beat story.

I also have to be a bit hard on you here and say, that if losing one hand makes you consider quitting poker, then maybe its not a game for you. You are going to lose or win an awful lot of hands in poker, and especially live poker is really a long term game, because you only get to play 30 hands per hour.

So you have played for a month, but what does that really amount to, maybe 40 hours or even less? Lets say, you have played 1.000 hands. That might feel like a lot, because it has taken so much time, but its absolutely nothing. Variance in poker is huge, and you need closer to 100.000 hands, before you can really begin to estimate your true winrate.

If you play 10 hours per week, that is like 7 years of poker. Sure you are going to have some idea after say 15.000 hands or 1 year, but its very common even for winning players to lose over 15.000 hands.

I am playing online, and I can not even count how many times, I had a downswing, that lasted more than 15.000 hands. So as a live part time hobby player, you are absolutely going to have not just losing month but even losing years. This is just, how the game work, and if you are not mentally prepared and bankrolled for it, you should find yourself another hobby.

I honestly recommend learning the game online, because you can play so many more hands per month, and get to that "long term" much faster. You can also play for a much smaller amount of money, so that it does not haunt you, when you lose a stack due to a cooler or a bad beat.

When you are beating online games until stakes like 50NL, you have an extremely good foundation and hopefully a bankroll to move into soft low stakes live games, if you prefer that format. Learning to play poker in a casino is going to take several years and cost you many 1.000 dollars of losses, before you perhaps become a winning player.
 
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If you want us to review your hand, you need to post a complete hand history. What were your exact starting cards (if suits dont matter, just make them up), what was the preflop action, what was the flop, what was the flop action, what was the turn card, what was the turn action. Without this information your hand is basically just a bad beat story.

I also have to be a bit hard on you here and say, that if losing one hand makes you consider quitting poker, then maybe its not a game for you. You are going to lose or win an awful lot of hands in poker, and especially live poker is really a long term game, because you only get to play 30 hands per hour.

So you have played for a month, but what does that really amount to, maybe 40 hours or even less? Lets say, you have played 1.000 hands. That might feel like a lot, because it has taken so much time, but its absolutely nothing. Variance in poker is huge, and you need closer to 100.000 hands, before you can really begin to estimate your true winrate.

If you play 10 hours per week, that is like 7 years of poker. Sure you are going to have some idea after say 15.000 hands or 1 year, but its very common even for winning players to lose over 15.000 hands.

I am playing online, and I can not even count how many times, I had a downswing, that lasted more than 15.000 hands. So as a live part time hobby player, you are absolutely going to have not just losing month but even losing years. This is just, how the game work, and if you are not mentally prepared and bankrolled for it, you should find yourself another hobby.

I honestly recommend learning the game online, because you can play so many more hands per month, and get to that "long term" much faster. You can also play for a much smaller amount of money, so that it does not haunt you, when you lose a stack due to a cooler or a bad beat.

When you are beating online games until stakes like 50NL, you have an extremely good foundation and hopefully a bankroll to move into soft low stakes live games, if you prefer that format. Learning to play poker in a casino is going to take several years and cost you many 1.000 dollars of losses, before you perhaps become a winning player.

I felt beat and quitting mainly due to not having a single session where I came out with some sort of a profit. That being said, I do believe my game has improved drastically over time and feel like have more success on life games, mainly due to reading people more easily there and harder for them to track my hands. Lowered the amount of hands I played, narrowed down my range and began bluffing less. This resulted in longer sessions and more profitable for me, its just that maybe I fail to play the big pot hands or run out of luck as they say. Will play poker, improve my game for couple more months, if there is improvement overall, would keep going, if not, would stop for my own health. Thanks and will work on the hand itself later on as well. :)
 
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