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[QUOTE="BukuDuckets, post: 3872905, member: 207357"]
If you have your A game optimum play environment setup (ie, music you like to listen to, solitude with no distractions, and a healthy well fed body and mind, or completely bolloxed...if that is how you get in your zone), then the answer might be to get away from the game for a bit. You need to get away from the game in this scenario, not because you are tired but because you are going through a burnout.

[B]ONE MAJOR THING I NOTICE ABOUT THE GAME,[/B] is that I tend to do better or at least perceive myself doing better when I am in love with the game. Most of us on forums like this love poker. As the saying goes, "you have to love it or leave it alone."

I notice after playing long stretches for days on end, I start to play more loose, and thus lose more pots. I then start to focus on recouping and forget my love of the sport and forget the focus on learning and thinking. My focus becomes getting the money back and how much money I have lost from the downswing.

When I step away from the game, I don't think about what mistakes I made or how I could have improved, I just stop thinking about poker and start thinking about other things. Eventually, I miss poker, even the downswings, so I come back and play and when that happens, I am euphoric  again and in this mindset rarely do I ever go bust or have a bad run. This is because I am present in each hand and enjoying the process for what it is, a game of probability.
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