I could need some help

Hey guys! First of all I'd like to say that I've been visiting this site and its forums for the past 2 months now and I think it's just great. Now I thought it was time to register, cause seriously I've got some big problems with my play. I think.

I've been playing at pokerstars earlier for 2½ months and started out with a measly BR of $150. I manage to grind it up to about $800 in two months of playing just ABC poker and by the tips and strategies I've read about here. So far so good... until about 3 weeks ago.

I dunno but I got kinda fed up with the ugly and slow interface at pokerstars, so I kinda switched to one of the primapoker sites in this case Parbet.com. I started playing as usual, just ABC poker that is. I make the standar raise 3-4xBB with AA, AK, KK, QQ, JJ and TT. Limps in with PP from MP to EP and rarely plays hands like AJs, AQs, KQs, not even from the small blind. I do check everything at BB.

The problem is, I just can't win! Everytime I've got a monster and raises, I got no callers or I miss the flop everytime and has to fold since there's always one of two faced cards but none that helps me. Yeah, I fear that one of the callers might hit their set so I'm basically screwed.
IF I do hit the flop with like TPTK, I'm pushing it like mad but everyone keeps calling and hit their two pairs or sets on the turn or river.

Last night I was dealth Ah Kc, so I raise 4xBB and gets one call. Flop came: Jc Qc 10s. Great, I flopped the straight. So I check and the other guy bets 3xBB and I call. Turn came: 7c. Now I've got a straight and a four-flush so I bet 5xBB and the other guy raises and I thought "Great! I might aswell push it all-in now and make him call it!" and so he did. River came: 2c and there's a showdown where the other guy shows his Ad Ac.

This happends all the time! I think I've lost like 6-7 buyins like that. I know they've got the odds against them but these guys keeps calling and THEY are the ones who hit their outs and I'm screwed. It has turned into a psychologic problem for me since I've lost so many hand like this in the past days, soon I might not even dare to push it in order to take the pot from them even if I've got the best hand.

I've basically lost a total $350 in the past 2-3 weeks cause of this problem. Is it just one of those long bad beat streaks where I'm the most unluckiest guy ever?

Making money is fun but playing poker without making a buck isn't.

Change site? There's thousands of them out there. Try party for a while maybe. Or go back to what you were doing before which got you from $150 to $800.

Recognise that you are on tilt, and on a downer, and that if you are playing well then it will pass.

Accept that there is no such thing as a poker god, and that you are just getting drawn out on a lot. Find out why. Are you giving them good odds to keep drawing?

Read some of the things in the Beginner forum like the Newbie Circle of Death and the Psychology of Losing.

Best of all laugh at the ridiculous beats and say "wp nh" to the divot who got a miracle river card. Next time he calls your all in with 2 outs you will probably win it.

This is a great post...

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ic.php?t=17766

panic, doubt your skills, wonder whether you changed for the worse, never were good at all, or whether the games just suddenly got a lot tougher, try your damndest to slow down the rate that you're losing money, until you finally stop having your bad luck streak and start winning again.

Originally Posted by Greedo017

try your damndest to slow down the rate that you're losing money

i.e. turn off the computer for a few days.