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Message: [QUOTE="TheKAAHK, post: 1672417, member: 50742"] PI, I think I know what a problem for you might be as I've faced a similar problem last summer: You're trying too hard. I know it may sound foolish and counterintuitive, but I believe as it has plagued me, it is plaguing you as well. What I mean is, you are trying your best, playing your heart out, thinking through every decision, every action, but at the same time you are trying to make things happen a certain way. Subconsciously forcing them, if you will. And when things don't go the way you envisioned and planned (even if it is only subconscious) you try even harder, which only makes things worse. What I did to overcome this was take a break for a few days. Not just form playing, but from everything poker related. When I came back, I made a mental effort to just play. Not try to outwit or out think, not try to make money or keep from losing money, but just play and take each hand as a new experience. Have patience and eventually you will find your game again. It will be a slow start, but eventually the money aspect (ie: profit) will come again. A wise old indian once told me "Flow like water, bend like birch. Water always finds it's level if left it's own devices. It takes years, but water can break rock, and forge the path it wants. Birch do not break under pressure. Other trees break in strong wind because they do not bend, they fight, and that fight leaves them rotting on the ground. A birch bends, a birch embraces the wind so it may keep standing tall and proud." Ok, I can see how this sounds hokey and mystic, but if you think about it, it can apply to your mental state as it pertains to poker. It helped me, mayhaps it can help you as well. EDIT: Good god, I gotta stop making serious posts when I'm this tired.... Upon re-reading this it doesn't make a whole lotta sense to me, and I wrote it... Maybe it will make sense to somebody... [/QUOTE]

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