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[QUOTE="Jeschant, post: 2174961, member: 103455"]
Last night I decided to play a dollar tournament even though I only had around eight dollars won from freerolls and such.  I knew it wasn't a good idea when I realized I was nervous before the tournament started.  I don't like butterflies!

I'm playing to have fun, and there I was waiting for this tournament to start and thinking, I don't know why I bother.  There will be stallers right from the beginning (there were and they caused me to go into the middle very shortstacked).  Or I'll bust out when my aces or whatever get cracked, or I'll make a stupid mistake and be pissed at myself the rest of the night.

I managed to get six bucks out of it, surviving on that godawful little stack one hand past the bubble and taking a chance trying to double up and go further after that.  But I still knew that nervous unhappy feeling meant I should have used bankroll management, pathetic as my 'bankroll' may be.

I also get antsy taking chances trying to double up near the bubble if I think I can get further if I do, because I know if I bust out two or three players away from a little bit of money I'm going to be pissed at myself.

Maybe that is part of why I'm not a winning player.  I feel emotion when I play and I really don't like it.  I'm working on changing that.  I don't want to feel anything strongly when I play except maybe calm contentment.
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