Matt Vaughan
King of Moody Rants
Bronze Level
Hey everyone.
So, here's my story: I've been playing online poker on and off for a few years, recently took more of an interest in maybe the past 6 months. Play mostly micro tourneys, with micros cash games here and there. I kept getting put off of cash games because it feels like I just can't do well. I do decently in tourneys, so I feel I understand the game well enough to, y'know, play... But over 2,750 hands on cash games (I know, LOL sample size) I'm down $52. And I almost exclusively play $4 NLHE.
I could be wrong, but -13 BIs over less than 3k hands seems like I might just suck at cash games. It's getting to the point where my losses at cash are now threatening my profits from tournaments, and I don't know whether to "stick with it" or just accept that I suck as cash.
Before I get 20 posts saying "take a break, it happens to all of us," I have tried the week long break, and the studying, and it hasn't done diddly squat for me yet. I'm more looking for - is it even possible that this is a "downswing"? Because I've only been using software to track stuff for maybe 3 or 4 months and I'm a full-time student which is why I have almost no volume in. But starting out with a $50 downswing almost seems like a sign that I should be avoiding cash games like the plague. But at the same time, I've heard that it's easier to be profitable at them and they are lower variance in general than MTTs... Thoughts? Suggestions? Insinuations that I'm an idiot?
So, here's my story: I've been playing online poker on and off for a few years, recently took more of an interest in maybe the past 6 months. Play mostly micro tourneys, with micros cash games here and there. I kept getting put off of cash games because it feels like I just can't do well. I do decently in tourneys, so I feel I understand the game well enough to, y'know, play... But over 2,750 hands on cash games (I know, LOL sample size) I'm down $52. And I almost exclusively play $4 NLHE.
I could be wrong, but -13 BIs over less than 3k hands seems like I might just suck at cash games. It's getting to the point where my losses at cash are now threatening my profits from tournaments, and I don't know whether to "stick with it" or just accept that I suck as cash.
Before I get 20 posts saying "take a break, it happens to all of us," I have tried the week long break, and the studying, and it hasn't done diddly squat for me yet. I'm more looking for - is it even possible that this is a "downswing"? Because I've only been using software to track stuff for maybe 3 or 4 months and I'm a full-time student which is why I have almost no volume in. But starting out with a $50 downswing almost seems like a sign that I should be avoiding cash games like the plague. But at the same time, I've heard that it's easier to be profitable at them and they are lower variance in general than MTTs... Thoughts? Suggestions? Insinuations that I'm an idiot?