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My own personal BR epiphany. Thoughts?

Postby SebQtaneus » Sun Feb 26, 2006 3:58 am

Just in case anybody that reads this forum doesn't read my poker journal, please read this one entry from it and let me know what you think.
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Postby k3nt » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:30 am

I think a lot of the game really is psychological. When you feel like you'll never win another pot, you play worse.

So if this is a way of identifying when you're playing less well -- or heading off a disaster before it happens -- then it makes sense to me.
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Postby AlexMR » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:28 pm

[17:16] alitomr: http://micropenis.ws/forum/viewtopic.php?t=723
[17:19] mekosking: wow
[17:19] mekosking: i give that poof a week tops
[17:19] mekosking: before he snuffs it
[17:19] mekosking: I THINK THAT MAY BE NV
[17:20] mekosking: IN DISGUISE
[17:20] alitomr: LOLZ
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Postby SebQtaneus » Sun Feb 26, 2006 11:49 pm

Alex,
Since you didn't read the journal post I will recap it for you. I finally figured out that I'm not on the losing jag that I thought I was. My epiphany was that my losing month was caused by 3 rather large losing days. Not a bad run. My play as a whole is 'fairly' solid so that is not my problem in my opinion. What my problem is, is that sometimes I don't know when to quit when I am having a bad day and then it turns into a REALLY bad day which is hard to dig out from under in the near future.

So, what I have done is to make a promise to myself that if I am having a bad day, i.e. the totals for the day are more than $100 in the hole, then I start really watching it and if it keeps going that way and starts to approach -$200 for the day then I quit for that day. Even if it's early on in the day. The thought process being that $100 is easy to make up the in next few days after you lose it and you can get on with your month of trying to eek out a profit. But the horrible -$200 to -$400 days are next to impossible to recover from very fast. Take a look at the first page of my journal as well as the link I posted and look at the month of February and you will see what I mean. If I had stopped at -$200 on all 3 of the Really bad days, I would be MUCH better off for the month and year as a whole. But I didn't and look at what happened. My epiphany was that "in the long run, if you can keep your losses infrequent and small, you will be a big winner in the end."

I'd heard these kinds of things before but never really understoof the full meaning behind it until last night. Then it just hit me like a freight train what I was doing wrong.

Part of the reason I wasn't stopping on a bad day before was that I had this fixation on having a good winning streak (# of days that is) going all the time and that if I just kept going, the suckouts would stop and I would end up on the positive side for the day even if it was just by one cent. I now see how dumb that was from a BR point of view. That was total EGO! Ego has no place in your poker BR!

SO, to summarize it all:

1. Continue to keep the losing days as infrequent as possible. ( well, duh!)

2. Keep the losing days that DO HAPPEN in control by keeping them small and easy to recover from.

3. If a day starts to get out of control losswise, quit for that day. Start fresh tomorrow or take some time off. There are things to do besides poker you know.
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Postby SebQtaneus » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:49 am

Not that I needed to do it. But after making my daily journal entry tonight, and after making the above post, I ran the numbers to see just where I would be for the month if I had been able to stop myself at -$200 on those 3 days I spoke of, and it came out pretty much as I expected it would. I would be at -$43.03 for the month right now instead of -$475.04 for the month.
I don't care you ya are, if you play the stakes I do, thats a SERIOUSLY big difference. Especially for something that has such an easy solution.
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Postby Tiburon » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:30 am

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Postby shamdonk » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:53 am

Be glad your opponents refuse to fold; if they didn't, you just might go broke.


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Postby Kuso » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:44 pm

wwcrd?

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