Time for my Monthly Rant (you have been warned)

[Mad Genius]

[iceman5]

[kennyg]

[Rhound50]

[Mad Genius]

[Dumb Snowman]

If your confidence is starting to waver, I would recommend dropping down limits for just a little while. If you can mark up even 2 consecutive wins, your conficence will be way back up there. Just take like a day or two and play only one (1) table of no limit, make sure your playing right, and get back on track. If the deck's cold against you, it might as well be cold at a lower limit, right?

[kennyg]

MG,

I think you play a lot more aggresively then I do, which invites more profit but a lot more varience. I'm selectively aggressive in choice spots. I play 4 tables so it's more about the hands then actually playing to win pots. I'm only about 12% VP$IP and my varience is very low because of that. I think i I have about $60-$70 standard deviation an hour on 4 tables of .50/1.00 NL. Prima's passive players also help that number. (I told you poker is a grind for me )

The 6 buyins thing was just a bad run of horrible river beats ( the weekend.) I've only been playing total pro for a month now so I can't say how often it happens to me. Last year I played over 200 hours on Prima and I know there were 3 or 4 times where I lost 4 buyins in one or two sessions. I was playing more aggressive then with a VP$IP of around 30% though.

On Party I can lose $400 in an hour playing two tables of $100 NL. That's why I left that hellspawn of poker. I can't handle those kinds of swings emotionally.

I think you should mix up your game a little. Switch sites maybe, just play top hands for a change, be a little less aggressive, and see if that gets you out of your slump. It can be hard to outplay some of these people on our limits. Reason being, they don't like to fold. You may represent a set on every street, but they'll call you down anyway with second pair. That's the reality of .50/1.00, and 1/2. These guys are playing for fun and want to gamble.

Hope that is some help to you. I wish I had more experience to tell you exactly what to do in this situation.

one more thing:
Do you think your live games with deep stacks, may have affected your online game in a negative way?? That thought just occurred to me.

[Mad Genius]

[iceman5]

My VIP% is about 17%. From some of the hands youve posted MG, I would thing your is higher than that. You seem to play some more speculative hands than I do (not that thats a bad thing necessarily).

I also think you push your hands harder (like pushing with a flush card and one overcard). That can lead to higher profit at times but its definatley going to lead to higher variance.

I suggest you just tighten up a bit and not push so hard until you get back on track.

And do whatever you need to do to get on Gaming Club.

Have they called you? I passed on your info and my rep at GC said he would get the right person to call you.

[excession]

If I've had a losing day I go off and do something else. If I find myself back at the computer I play some $1 Buy-In 1c/2c O8 on UB (I really must learn the rules of that game before I play more or sometimes I just fire up prima (the only site I play at without PT support) and one-table 'naked' (ie without PT support).

The other thing I do is go away a write a PT Guide article - which almost always improves my play at the end of it

[Mad Genius]

[kennyg]

lol. i know it's hard to folds those j8s!! Good luck!