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Message: [QUOTE="TPC, post: 1583534, member: 46273"] This goes back to perception. Because you are new, 20k hands over two months seems like a lot. I play about 40k hands a month. And compared to some of the other grinders, that isn't that much either. In 20k hands some of it could be due to running bad, but a lot of it is probably due to mistakes you are making (leaks) or also missing value on hands in certain situations. I could speculate all day, but we have no idea unless you post some hands, or even shoot a video while you play. And talk about what your thoughts are while you are playing. Yes. It's the wrong attitude to have. The problem is in today's society we hate waiting for shit. Long lost is the saying good things happen to those who wait. All this is, is a focus problem. However, I'm not a mind coach and can't tell you how you should stay focused. I can only tell you what I do. When I started playing cash games I started with four tables, in hindsight, I should have started with two. But, four tables fit on the screen perfectly. It wasn't long until I though, hey, whats two more tables? Then... Hey what's two more? Well I noticed I was showing a steady profit when I was playing four tables, but now I'm not showing a profit while playing ten tables. So I went back down to four. I get what you are saying, the four tables was boring. But I was winning. So I started watching hands play out on the other tables while I wasn't involved in any hands. And I tried to guess what the players were holding. First I would put them on ranges, then try to narrow it down to the actual hands. I'd get pissed off when the hand didn't go to show down, cause I didn't know if I was right or not. That little game I played with myself taught me how to put players on a range and also taught me valuable hand reading skills. So then I moved to six tables and so on. If you are profiting over a large sample it's ok to add tables. When you are no longer profiting, you need to drop the number of tables down. I play ten tables now and don't think I will ever add any more. Yes and no. You say you can't handle the swings, which is understandable. But with turbos there are going to be a lot more swings. So to put it simply, you are kinda torturing yourself by playing turbos. This is what medeiros13 is getting at. What do you enjoy playing? I'm a biased cash game player, just because I think the promotions sites offer benefit the cash game player the most. Which, from your posts, it sounds like you are coming to the same conclusion. What it boils down to is only you can decide what the best game for you is. But you're never going to figure it out playing three DON's then 7 STT's and finally an MTT every night. I would say pick any game type and play it for a month. If you can't see yourself playing that one type for a moth, it's a fare assumption that's not the game type for you. In Dusty's book "Treat Your Poker Like a Business" he advocates making a schedule. In that schedule you should schedule your playing time. For example from 7pm to 8pm, I'm going to read X book. From 8pm to 11pm I'm going to play cash games. From 11pm to midnight I'm going to reread the chapters I read at 7pm. Ect, you can go as far as putting your work schedule, dinner, time with friends whatever. But you should plan what you are going to do and stick to it. This will give you structure. Which is something I believe we all need to a degree. Hey, this is what CC is all about. I hope this helps and wish you the best. Do keep us updated and keep posting. Sharing ideas and asking questions helps everyone involved get better. [/QUOTE]

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