Depressions because Poker

kaetzchenfg · Nov 25, 2015

Hey everybody.

I often have the problem that I am depressed if I am out of a tournament. I spent many hours, grow my stack, have a relatively big stack and than I am out because bad beats or something without winning anything. Than I feel angry, depressed, sad and so on. Do you know this too and if yes how do you handle this ? Thanks for answers.

messer21 · Nov 26, 2015

I know what that is. it is best to unsubscribe for a while only then, come back to recover his senses and take the strength to go in your life and in poker.

GODZZ · Nov 26, 2015

If you're a tournament player prepare to be depressed a lot . even great tourny players lose a good percentage of the time.It's an evil roller coaster lol.

mohill · Nov 26, 2015

I know how it feels the best way to cope is to understand its about having fun and learning. if your not having fun STOP! take some time regroup and get your mind clear, keep your head up learn from mistakes. I cope by just laughing it happens lol. case in point sitting with 3 left i get dealt jj. oh man raise 3.5x bb. bb calls flop
AJ7 oh man i bet 7x bb. bb pushes allin, quick call. bb shows AJ turn 8 river A. i was smiling so hard cause it didnt even hit me then my chips shot across the table. man all i could do was laugh. bad beats happen its poker, and only 1 can win. remember the only thing you can do is put yourself in position to win. its up in the air after that.

Lucothefish · Nov 26, 2015

kaetzchenfg said:
Hey everybody.

I often have the problem that I am depressed if I am out of a tournament. I spent many hours, grow my stack, have a relatively big stack and than I am out because bad beats or something without winning anything. Than I feel angry, depressed, sad and so on. Do you know this too and if yes how do you handle this ? Thanks for answers.

Play more! You will get used to losing :icon_thum but also it gives you more chances for your luck to even out. In large MTTs with several thousand players you will go home with nothing 9/10 times

Also, watch all hands at your table. You will see AA cracked all the time, see people play their hands perfectly and still go home - it happens to everyone.

Aslama01 · Nov 26, 2015

Hold on to that. Don't dwell on it, but hold it. If you like to play MTTs, like myself, then you need to get used to losing. A lot. As well as losing in horrendous fashion. It happens. It should happen according to odds. There's nothing wrong with losing. There is something wrong if it is effecting your quality of life. If it is destroying to the point of helplessness when you get knocked out, perhaps it's time for a break. I've taken some over my time and just now I'm finally figuring it out. Weirdly enough, for me I needed to switch to cash games =/

makisaa · Nov 26, 2015

You can take a break during the tournament and relax. Anyway dont insist on playing days that are not ok, or the game doesn`t go as well as you would like. Leave and play later or next day! If you have confidence you don`t need this.

Zorba · Nov 26, 2015

GODZZ said:
If you're a tournament player prepare to be depressed a lot ..

Lucothefish said:
Play more! You will get used to losing :icon_thum

All you need to know are the above two answers.

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sryImPro · Nov 26, 2015

Well you can't laugh after you get kicked out from a tournament right? In my opinion it's perfectly normal to get angry a bit but it shouldn't shake your health condition.
First of all, you'll have to ask yourself, do you play for money or for fun?
If you play for money, give your best to change your game purposes, play for fun because it will definitely change the way of your play, you'll be more comfortable, more confident, therefore you'll improve your game and then you will be making money, from fun

Keep your health intact, we do not have to gamble, we can just play

Cheers!

tagece · Nov 26, 2015

Man, what you need is to decrease your espectations about winning. Sometimes you will be in a long series of losses, it just happens.

If you are playing putting a lot of pressure in yourself, you'll be always anxious and nervous, what is the recipe for a tilt. This will really spoil your game. I agree with the people above. When you play enjoying the game, you play better. Just relax! :icon_thum

jozsef1990 · Nov 26, 2015

Hi this is a very big problem when I have an important race Kies my phone flew a few times because I was so nervous when I shout and scold mindennkit I need 10 minutes into the mud sets

VovanBaron · Nov 26, 2015

kaetzchenfg said:
Hey everybody.

I often have the problem that I am depressed if I am out of a tournament. I spent many hours, grow my stack, have a relatively big stack and than I am out because bad beats or something without winning anything. Than I feel angry, depressed, sad and so on. Do you know this too and if yes how do you handle this ? Thanks for answers.

I have familiar situations.But in such cases im trying to analyse my actions in that "tragic"hand))that depressed me and often find my fault.Than write down it in my personal notebook...study yourself and analyse-its the way to perfection...too long way but so interesting!!!

PapaC · Nov 26, 2015

First kaetzchenfg, welcome to CC. Right here is where I over come depression from playing poker and losing. You are doing the right thing by posting it and talking about it. That way you will see that you are not alone. You have support here. Use it. Talk about things that are going wrong and get advice to take to the tables. If you do, you will see a change real fast. Try to keep a positive mind. Tell yourself over and over that you will catch the right cards if you wait on them. Learn to laugh it off when you get beat. If you do these things, poker will be fun for you, and you will win more. Get it out of your head that you are going to lose. I say that because I had that in my head for a long time, and that is what I did, lose. GL to you

razzor94 · Nov 26, 2015

First of all play within your bankroll. If you are a tournament player you should invest 1% of your BR at most. So if you have 100$ you should play 1$ tournaments. That way you wont feel depressed, cause you lost just 1% of your BR.

Second of all ask yourself did you play your hand the best way possible and could you have done anything different to prevent the bad beat.
If you did play your best than just give yourself a pat on the back, becouse at a certain point in the hand you made your opponent make a mistake against you, and the next time they wont be so lucky.

Four Dogs · Nov 26, 2015

kaetzchenfg said:
Hey everybody.

I often have the problem that I am depressed if I am out of a tournament. I spent many hours, grow my stack, have a relatively big stack and than I am out because bad beats or something without winning anything. Than I feel angry, depressed, sad and so on. Do you know this too and if yes how do you handle this ? Thanks for answers.

I take drugs

Lucothefish · Nov 26, 2015

Four Dogs said:
I take drugs

Ah, the Justin Schwartz method.

Not for everyone though

Four Dogs · Nov 26, 2015

Lucothefish said:
Ah, the Justin Schwartz method.

Not for everyone though

No but it's cheaper than hiring a mental game coach.

11012015 · Nov 26, 2015

Try to develop its own strategy in the fight against depression.

MoeJurphy · Nov 26, 2015

Review your sessions and if you are making the right decisions (getting it in good etc) then you can't blame your play. If you get AA in against KK and they suck out you still made the right move and can be happy with our play, yes we lost the tournament but long term we are winning.

A high percentage of the time we aren't going to hit the final table, sometimes cashing but mostly no major cashes. But when we do hit the final table we make a profit out of all the buy ins we didn't cash with.

Maybe if you cant handle loosing or it affects you mentally too much then poker isn't the right game for you? Can you bust your bankroll and be fine with that?

ccocco · Nov 26, 2015

The tournaments are very hard if there are many participants, it is always good to accumulate chips but is tiring, would have to do if you do not get to the bubble, you have to be prepared and be patient in long tournaments, wait times, put the mind in which it is the aim, which I think for any player is to bubble to keep going up there and collect more money. A tip as I got to my .. patience. Cheers

MoeJurphy · Nov 26, 2015

kaetzchenfg said:
Hey everybody.

I often have the problem that I am depressed if I am out of a tournament. I spent many hours, grow my stack, have a relatively big stack and than I am out because bad beats or something without winning anything. Than I feel angry, depressed, sad and so on. Do you know this too and if yes how do you handle this ? Thanks for answers.

Maybe try Turbo's too, blinds increase every 5 mins instead of 15/20. Action is a lot faster.

TheArnie · Nov 27, 2015

When you feel down just watch some bad beat videos on youtube, it always cheers me up

el_magiciann · Nov 27, 2015

Zorba said:
All you need to know are the above two answers.

:top:

I completely agree

revenoff · Nov 27, 2015

the only times i get disturbed are when i get knocked out from my own poor players that look so obviously bad in hindsight

im pretty happy when i make the right move and it just turns out poorly because poker is never a sure thing, simply the nature of the game.

joe777 · Nov 27, 2015

Everyone got emotion,so its a normal thing and try to get use to it.

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