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[QUOTE="hisoka07, post: 7317646, member: 1064225"]
Hear me out.
When you play online, there's no one to talk to after a rough session. You just close the client and sit there. When you go on a two week downswing, you can't really explain it to your friends or family because they don't get it. They hear "I lost money playing cards" and the conversation ends there. So you internalize everything. The doubt, the frustration, the constant second-guessing of every decision you made.
Am I running bad or am I actually bad? That question will eat you alive if you have nobody to ask it to.
I went through a stretch last year where I dropped three buyins a day for almost two weeks straight. Technically not a disaster in terms of sample size. But mentally? I was cooked. I started avoiding sessions. I'd open the client, stare at the lobby, and close it again. Something I genuinely loved started feeling like a threat.
What pulled me out wasn't a strategy video or a solver. It was a Discord group of maybe eight guys at similar stakes who just talked. About sessions, about life, about the stupid river bluff that didn't work. Just people who understood the specific kind of pain that only poker players know.
If you're grinding alone and struggling mentally, find your people. Seriously. The game is hard enough without fighting it completely isolated.
Does anyone else feel like the mental and social side of poker is massively underrated in the community?
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