Last year I really hammered the Pokerstars site playing 8,9, sometimes 10 games every day, because I was on a mission, I rarely played that much On-line before, because I was into the Live games more and played a lot more live games.
When the Pandemic shut down my Live games I returned to Pokerstars with an account of just over $200 Dollar's (free-roll winnings) and decided I wanted to double it before Christmas 2020, I did it and now my account is close to the $600 Dollar mark, but since Christmas my buy-in games have almost stopped to a point where I only play them once or twice a month, I still enjoy the Cardschat free-rolls, but I play purely for fun, I have very little interest in making money from Poker, not because I am rich already, but I just enjoy playing Poker! Which I do totally free, from money I have won from free-rolls and the odd buy-in game I play.
Maybe soon I will set my sights on the $1,000 Dollar mark and grind away for another year, who knows? I just like to keep the game fun!
When the fun Stops, STOP!
When the Pandemic shut down my Live games I returned to Pokerstars with an account of just over $200 Dollar's (free-roll winnings) and decided I wanted to double it before Christmas 2020, I did it and now my account is close to the $600 Dollar mark, but since Christmas my buy-in games have almost stopped to a point where I only play them once or twice a month, I still enjoy the Cardschat free-rolls, but I play purely for fun, I have very little interest in making money from Poker, not because I am rich already, but I just enjoy playing Poker! Which I do totally free, from money I have won from free-rolls and the odd buy-in game I play.
Maybe soon I will set my sights on the $1,000 Dollar mark and grind away for another year, who knows? I just like to keep the game fun!
When the fun Stops, STOP!
You should take a break, when you tired and have no motivation to play poker. Or when you are (still) tilted and want make up your losses. You need to be in a fresh state and to have a positive mindset to be successful 🙂
puzzlefish
👆 the guy who's opinion you would trust on this!
Loyaler
When it feels like a chore to play and you feel a sense of dread when sitting down at the table or opening your favourite online poker client.
When to start poker? I don't even know I'm not a professional I'm just a poker lover, he doesn't bother me to take a break, you can skip a couple of tournaments in the event of a labor order, this will be a break. Happy holidays everyone !!!!!! !!
When the doom switch is pulled there's nothing you can do except walk away.
Skill can only do so much. Ultimately is how the cards fall that determines if you win or not.
People will say as long as you put the money in when you are ahead you will come out on top. That is not necessarily true.
Sure, the concept is straight forward. If you are getting it all in with 70% equity for example, you would think that over the long run you will win 70% of such showdowns.
That (hopefully) does work out in the long run, but what's more important is the size of the pot in those situations. If you get unlucky in huge pots, you will end up winning less money than you SHOULD be winning.
It's perfectly fine to feel ripped off because you probably were ripped off. Feeling like you did nothing wrong and therefore you should feel fine about how you played doesn't really help things. If you played perfectly and still lost, then you have the right to feel angry. But, if the anger is affecting how you normally play, quit playing until you mentally reset.
IF you did make some mistakes and can improve by correcting those mistakes, then go ahead and study and improve, but if you did things perfectly and still lost, then it really IS luck and you should quit if it ain't your day.
I've been in a terrible run and I was supposed to not play cash games until 2022 but I broke my own rules cuz I felt good. I played today and got screwed by two more river 3 outters. Had I won those hands, I'd be up about 300 bbs today. Instead I lost nearly 200 bbs.
(I don't multitable and I don't play many hands a day so that's actually a pretty big swing for the low volume that I put in)
It's affected my game now as I am overthinking and assuming I will lose, so I am gonna really have to not play again until the calendar flips.
Skill can only do so much. Ultimately is how the cards fall that determines if you win or not.
People will say as long as you put the money in when you are ahead you will come out on top. That is not necessarily true.
Sure, the concept is straight forward. If you are getting it all in with 70% equity for example, you would think that over the long run you will win 70% of such showdowns.
That (hopefully) does work out in the long run, but what's more important is the size of the pot in those situations. If you get unlucky in huge pots, you will end up winning less money than you SHOULD be winning.
It's perfectly fine to feel ripped off because you probably were ripped off. Feeling like you did nothing wrong and therefore you should feel fine about how you played doesn't really help things. If you played perfectly and still lost, then you have the right to feel angry. But, if the anger is affecting how you normally play, quit playing until you mentally reset.
IF you did make some mistakes and can improve by correcting those mistakes, then go ahead and study and improve, but if you did things perfectly and still lost, then it really IS luck and you should quit if it ain't your day.
I've been in a terrible run and I was supposed to not play cash games until 2022 but I broke my own rules cuz I felt good. I played today and got screwed by two more river 3 outters. Had I won those hands, I'd be up about 300 bbs today. Instead I lost nearly 200 bbs.
(I don't multitable and I don't play many hands a day so that's actually a pretty big swing for the low volume that I put in)
It's affected my game now as I am overthinking and assuming I will lose, so I am gonna really have to not play again until the calendar flips.
If I find myself constantly topping up my account with real money then i deffo take a break from it all