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Message: [QUOTE="Emperor IX, post: 1258540, member: 20874"] I think it's just the low limit grind for these years is getting me. I'm still working real hard to net these $50 days and it's sad. I see others who started around the same time I did (or even after) and they are out crushing more meaningful limits, and yet I've had to withdraw like THREE successful (400-$650) rolls that I've built from nothing, which as kept me from moving up. I think the reason I view my losses so negatively is just that I feel that I should be at the point where a $50 win/loss shouldn't even be noticable, as a $5 win/loss is right now (and has been for two goddamn years). I never thought the psychological aspect of the game would get to me like it has over the last month. I've never really been results oriented when it comes to individual hands, but my negative sessions (in LIMIT of all freakin' games) are hard to swallow. I really need to get some books on the mindgame and actually put my short term subscription to Stox to good use. I have little reason to believe that I wouldn't be playing at least 100nl by now if I never had the RL limitations placed on me. I have to stop thinking "Damnit Roy you've been playing for damn near three years now and you're still playing 10nl? What the hell is wrong with you?" Because I think that's a huge part of my mental problem. My BRM is pretty good. 1/2 is the only game I really can't afford to play, but I haven't really played a lot of it. I've never played $10+ tournaments that weren't special occasions/stakes. I limit my 25nl sessions to when I am over 10 bi's or so and only play one table, and stop the shot if I lose, and I generally DON'T continue even if I win. My understanding of ranges and equity has greatly improved over the last few months, and I feel my postflop game crushes my postflop game from when I built $0 into workable br's. I know now I need to work a little more on preflop play (in cash games at least. I think my tournament play is ok, but it's causing leaks in cash play) A big contributing factor to my mental state is volume, in the sense that I'm not playing enough hands to properly gauge my play. I do single table sessions for limit and play generally just 4-6 for 10nl, and when I do, I don't play for more than an hour or so. These last two months I've put in only 10k hands per month. I was hoping to get at least 20k this month, but it's not likely to happen as I'm not going to be able to up my tables of 10nl until the late second half of the month. agh idk my mind is racing right now to figure out a way out of this psychological hump. Maybe my thoughts on why I complain a lot are way off base, but hopefully over time I can learn to set my ego aside and actually start making some money. [/QUOTE]

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