I am retiring from online poker, as nice as the wins has been, all the stress from the bad beats, especially just now has sucked out all the fun in this game for me. I can't see myself playing any poker again in the foreseeable future, as I am going to self exclude from ALL site that I've signed up on during my gambling addiction phase. I don't know if I will ever come back to this site again, but I like to thank all for the interactions and advice which helped me better my game along the way.
If you wanna see the recent bad beat:
https://www.cardschat.com/forum/bad-beats-and-vents-71/i-give-up-ggpoker-bounty-hunters-522038/
Goodbye
Hello brother.
Well as for how Pretty Girl says, if you don't enjoy the game, if you have an addiction, etc. Better retire and have a good life.
Now, I also read what my brothers Andyreas and GO930 say, how??? 11 hours ago you had 2 final tables and today you quit online poker???
Well, I'll tell you what I think, which doesn't mean that I'm right, but I always try to speak with the wisdom that God gives me.
1° you have to understand that poker is not chess. In chess luck does not exist and in poker it does.
In poker you play badly and you can win, although it is true that most of the time you play badly you lose. On the other hand, in chess you play badly and you lose.
2° You have to understand that a badbeat is neither more nor less than the bad luck you had in a showdown. Tell me the truth.....
How many times do you call all in with AJ and your opponent had AK and you hit the J at showdown???
How many times did you go with a J10s and your rival with AA or KK, and you hit a flush or a straight at showdown????
I think your problem is that you must understand that in poker many times, not always, the best combination you have doesn't win. The lucky one at the showdown wins.
Of course, the mathematical
odds of an AA against other combinations is very high to win, but it is not insurmountable.
3° Most of the experienced poker players know perfectly well that luck exists, and when I say experienced I am not referring only to the PROs, but to many of us who play here at CC who have more than 30 years of experience playing this game.
If you don't understand that, I recommend that you don't play anymore, it's the best.
I'll tell you something, in my youth I was quite addicted to slot machines. If you ask me if I was lucky??? Many times yes, thank God, because I attribute all my achievements to God, and many times I had no luck.
But when I discovered poker my addiction to slot machines ended.
Will you ask me why??? Simple, because poker is a game of skill, strategy, mathematical possibilities, and also luck.
When I enter an MTT I have a goal.
1° the payment for the entrance is lost. It does not mean that I enter to lose, but that there is either the possibility of losing, or the possibility of winning.
2° If I play a hand I play it because I know I can win it, and if I lose it bad luck. If I went all-in with my stack and got left out, there would be
another MTT and if my stack exceeds that of the rival, I will have to overcome the MTT. It's plain and simple.
3° You never give up before a badbeat or several badbeats. Remember that in life we have thousands of badbeats and we must overcome them. Perhaps you are too young and this you must understand.
Finally, I will show you a real badbeat that I played not more than 5 months ago in an MTT that was going very well. And then if you can answer me to see if your badbeats were worse than this one.
Despite this, I'm still playing and happy 2 days ago to enter 2 final tables of the CC MTT, happy to be with friends in them.
Greetings brother, do not lose your calm. Don't give up on your goals. Keep in mind, many times poker is like life itself.
I hope my reflection helps you.
