It can be nauseating to be down.
Literally gross. It makes you question everything you thought you knew about poker. It seems you can’t do anything right. No matter what play you try, you still seem to lose.
After a while, you start to fear playing cards. The accumulated frustration keeps coming out. When you miss your draw for the 44th time in a row, you want to blow a gasket. Nothing seems to be going your way.
How do you get out of a downturn? How do you stop the downward spiral?
The first thing to do is take a deep breath. Realize that regression happens to everyone. Every professional poker player can tell you that they’ve been through a terrible swing. Sometimes it can seem like a whole year could go by with each failure missing.
The next thing we need to do is realize that volatility can teach us something valuable. Sometimes, there is one major reason why we don’t win anymore. Backtracking is our signal to look for this leak.
In addition, we will deal with the ups and downs of entire poker careers. We will need to get better at playing under the pressure of going downhill. If we eventually level up in the stakes, this becomes a huge skill to have.
Most people make their bad swings so much worse because they stop trusting their normal game. They start trying to play a style they are not comfortable with. Before, they did disciplined folds on the river. now? They’re calling everyone because they can’t believe they’re out again!
Another frequent mistake people make when they are frustrated with a game is that they start double and triple going more than they used to. They start seeing ghosts. They think that everyone sees their decline and tries to take advantage of them. They think they are floating nonstop with hands that will eventually fold. What they fail to realize is that they need to stop compounding their losses. Eventually, the flops will start hitting them again.
Another common way to increase the length of their swings is for them to stop acting aggressive when they need to be. When they are passionate about poker, they bet three times more and take the lead when they have a superior position or hand. now? They feel like a silly triple bet because they lose the flop and have to fold on a subsequent street.
Sometimes the players sitting at the table constantly call them three bets when they don’t seem to have anything. To avoid this embarrassment, they start calling more coldly. The problem with this now is that they are playing multi-way pots. You can’t fool loose recreational players in omnidirectional pots. Most likely someone has caught something when several players see the flop, and that person doesn’t want to quit. They have reduced poker to a game of capture cards at this point.
Let’s discuss some of the leaks that could have started the undoing.
One of the common leaks that players develop is opening too many hands. When they start playing poker they are disciplined. As they become more comfortable at the table, they begin to open up more freely. They start to open more when the players behind them are passive or weak, but once they realize how fun it is to unlock more, they start to open all the time.
This opens the door for a second massive spill that could lead to a bearish swing, which frequently calls for all three bets out of position.
It is very difficult to make money on flattening with a three outside bet. You may lose less than if you fold to all three bets, but you lose more compared to folding your hand beforehand. If you are opening this hand against aggressive players who are going to be triple betting most of the time, it creates a lot of problems.
The best way to stop losing with weak hands from the early position is to go back to playing AQ offsuit +, AJ fitted +, 7-7+, Broadway fitting, 10-9 suitable, 9-8 suitable. When the table is softer you can open 2-2+ and suitable weaker conductors again.
One of the other major leaks requires a lot of big blinds. When someone raises and someone else calls cold, many people call from the big blind with approximately two cards. While they do get a great odds price to call it is more difficult to achieve your equity in this situation.
Playing out of position in a multi-way bowl makes it harder to bluff. It’s hard to know when your hand is good and when you’re controlling it. When your opponent is out of position he gets more information because you act first.
When completing a bet on the big blind against multiple players, it’s a good idea to make sure your hand has some multi-way playability. Find the right spam hands and connectors like the 10-6 suit that will see you calling out when you lose.
The best way to stop making these and other mistakes is to move down and play boundaries that don’t make you angry. Focus on the essentials for a few sessions. Play big pots into position with superior hands. Play those hands hard. be patient!
If you win a little while you are tired? Call the session early. Just book a profit. The winning couple book in a row. Get the feeling of winning again.
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Once you’ve booked some small gains, you’ll often feel the panic begin to dissipate. Don’t move again once you feel this calm. Keep hitting the basics in this lower stakes game. Do it until you get bored again. Once your base-sounding game becomes routine, it’s time to move to the back. This is when you will break the landing spell. ♠
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Alexander Fitzgerald is a professional poker player and Best selling author who currently lives in Denver, Colorado. that it WPT And EPT The final scheduling list, and it has WCOOP And scoop Online wins. His most recent win was the $250,000 Guaranteed in American Cardroom. He’s currently enjoying blasting bums at Ignition leagues while listening to death metal. Free training packages It is provided to new newsletter subscribers who have registered at PokerHeadRush.com
