| Posted by: mewannabonus at December 15, 2005, 12:16 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | Quote: just gotta learn to deal with it as much as it sucks
learn to love it. it's what makes the games good.
and learn to laugh at it. and keep laughing.
what comes around, goes around.
seriously, find the humour in it all.
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| Posted by: Alphaunit1 at December 14, 2005, 5:31 pm | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | maxcavsm wrote: Thanks guys. The downswing is coming back up, and I was actually able to clear my 15UPTO75 bonus from Party +$45. The curse is lifted, and I can get over that "The cards are out to get me" mentality.
Glad to hear it. Negative variance swings suck. Always do.
Quote: Jesus Christ Alpha. 90BB downswing at 5/10? I guess my problems are literally miniscule at those levels.
Do you even whore at those levels? I mean seriously? When a single pot for you is more than any 10x bonus out there...phew.
Yes, I whore at those levels regularly - I clear most of my bonuses at this level, except for Prima (never any good $5/$10 games - mostly $1/$2 there), and the timed bonuses at Crypto (playing $1/$2 or £1/£2, depending on the site). The bonuses aren't a huge cushion, obviously, but I'm trying to make money too.
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| Posted by: Pkrbt at December 14, 2005, 5:15 pm | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | | Lol Max, something really funny about the situation: around the time u posted u were doing really fine and your bankroll was growing considerably, right then I was experiencing the same thing, was playing good and had good cards and not too much bad luck. Well, last two days, around the same time u posted, I am getting some horrible beats, they seem to hit the river everytime. LOL @ this coincidence. Hmm, u say u've done good last hours, that means I should win the WSOP freeroll from Caribb. Sun who's starting in a moment | | Static Link |
| Posted by: maxcavsm at December 14, 2005, 4:58 pm | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | Thanks guys. The downswing is coming back up, and I was actually able to clear my 15UPTO75 bonus from Party +$45. The curse is lifted, and I can get over that "The cards are out to get me" mentality.
Jesus Christ Alpha. 90BB downswing at 5/10? I guess my problems are literally miniscule at those levels.
Do you even whore at those levels? I mean seriously? When a single pot for you is more than any 10x bonus out there...phew.
Guess it just goes to show you no matter how bad you think things are, someone could always have it worse....
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| Posted by: SnakeNdGrass at December 14, 2005, 2:28 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | Quote: yesterday... pocket aces won 1 out of 19 times
I have a hard time beleiving this....aces nineteen times in one day.....I have trouble playing nineteen hands a day......damn a.d.d.
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| Posted by: Alphaunit1 at December 14, 2005, 12:15 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | It's tough to handle those hard swings. Heck, in the last 2 days I've taken an over 90BB downturn at Party $5/$10 games - every big hand I've played I've been crippled by something unlikely and/or poorly played.
Hardest thing in the world to do is walk away, brush yourself off, and recenter. Look at your hand histories (PT), and make sure you weren't making any dumb-ass mistakes. (If you were, learn from them!) Then find a different site to play on and get right back into it. (I think it is imperative to find a different site to play on so you can erase the "I can't win" thoughts from your mind.) | | Static Link |
| Posted by: 2muchMONEY at December 13, 2005, 11:32 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | Chas8020 wrote: I just turn off the computer and remember that the money i just lost was money i had already won from some other person. Its not like you just lost money out of your bank account and if you are a winning player, then u have been playing with winnings for a long time and i always feel better after a good nights sleep.
Tilt, in my opinion, comes from 1) inexperience, that being, u just haven't played long enough to know that these sessions will be a recurring thing the more u play cards 2) playing out of your BR, if it bothers u to the point that is affects your play, i don't care how u couch it, u are playing out of your BR. and 3) watching maniacs bully a table and not getting cards to bash their brains in, well there's not much u can do about that except tilt of all your chips Right. I think the most important thing in poker is to live with downswings! (Almost) everbody can learn how to play poker but it's hard for most people to handle large downswings (and i don't mean yo... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: Chas8020 at December 13, 2005, 11:28 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | I just turn off the computer and remember that the money i just lost was money i had already won from some other person. Its not like you just lost money out of your bank account and if you are a winning player, then u have been playing with winnings for a long time and i always feel better after a good nights sleep.
Tilt, in my opinion, comes from 1) inexperience, that being, u just haven't played long enough to know that these sessions will be a recurring thing the more u play cards 2) playing out of your BR, if it bothers u to the point that is affects your play, i don't care how u couch it, u are playing out of your BR. and 3) watching maniacs bully a table and not getting cards to bash their brains in, well there's not much u can do about that except tilt of all your chips
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| Posted by: 2muchMONEY at December 13, 2005, 11:10 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | PollyAmory wrote: 2muchMONEY wrote: PollyAmory wrote: I'm thinking about getting a punching bag and some gloves to work it off cause it's kinder on the fists then walls and people's faces. LOL. Bad beats make you so aggresive? Chill baby, chill. Money lost is money won..uhm no wait...money won is money los...no uhm...whatever, shit happens.
Oooh! You're so on the list now.
-- Polly List? List of what? Cool peoples? Tell me.
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| Posted by: PollyAmory at December 13, 2005, 10:41 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | 2muchMONEY wrote: PollyAmory wrote: I'm thinking about getting a punching bag and some gloves to work it off cause it's kinder on the fists then walls and people's faces. LOL. Bad beats make you so aggresive? Chill baby, chill. Money lost is money won..uhm no wait...money won is money los...no uhm...whatever, shit happens.
Oooh! You're so on the list now.
-- Polly
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| Posted by: 2muchMONEY at December 13, 2005, 10:40 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | PollyAmory wrote: I'm thinking about getting a punching bag and some gloves to work it off cause it's kinder on the fists then walls and people's faces. LOL. Bad beats make you so aggresive? Chill baby, chill. Money lost is money won..uhm no wait...money won is money los...no uhm...whatever, shit happens.
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| Posted by: PollyAmory at December 13, 2005, 10:35 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | Here's something not to do -- go bitching to someone who goes all Buddha and lectures you about variane. Destruction of property might ensue.
I'm thinking about getting a punching bag and some gloves to work it off cause it's kinder on the fists then walls and people's faces.
-- Polly
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| Posted by: londonenns at December 13, 2005, 10:12 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | maxcavsm wrote: I can't be the only one who's experienced this; you're at a site, and every hand you're dealt is going to lose. Not because karma or bad luck, but because it's just your turn to lose. AA gets beaten by trip 5s, a set of K gets beaten by JTs at the river, all your draw hands miss at the river, etc. Oh, and then hands that you DO make, no one bets into them and immediately fold.
Just a brutal day. Say you're at a %15 showdown win rate or something. Just hammered all day.
What do you guys do to let off steam? A few hands I was glad that there was nothing to break around me or it would have been broken. I really need to set up a full sized heavy bag next to my computer for days like yesterday. I remember swiveling around in my chair looking for something to pound my fists into.
I'm just curious. And no, this isn't a "this site is rigged" or anything like that. Variance is a bitch, but I'm certainly doing okay for my time with poker to the point ... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: maxcavsm at December 13, 2005, 9:05 am | | Topic: What Do You Do When The Cards Are Out To Get You? Forum: Bonus Whores | I can't be the only one who's experienced this; you're at a site, and every hand you're dealt is going to lose. Not because karma or bad luck, but because it's just your turn to lose. AA gets beaten by trip 5s, a set of K gets beaten by JTs at the river, all your draw hands miss at the river, etc. Oh, and then hands that you DO make, no one bets into them and immediately fold.
Just a brutal day. Say you're at a %15 showdown win rate or something. Just hammered all day.
What do you guys do to let off steam? A few hands I was glad that there was nothing to break around me or it would have been broken. I really need to set up a full sized heavy bag next to my computer for days like yesterday. I remember swiveling around in my chair looking for something to pound my fists into.
I'm just curious. And no, this isn't a "this site is rigged" or anything like that. Variance is a bitch, but I'm certainly doing okay for my time with poker to the point where I can shrug yester... | | Read Entire Entry |
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