Quote Originally Posted by Erpel
Sounds like we're getting somewhere. Bravo.

Now here's my problem. I more or less understand the problem and sit down with a few basic rules such as I must be patient, I must not bluff when I don't know for sure I have fold equity etc.

And then I sit down, play a bit (playing well) then get impatient and start pushing to create situations again.

Obviously we all have our own ways of dealing with things and I think patience is probably the thing that's causing you problems here which manifests in the 6 symptoms you list. Rather than try to fix each symptom seperately, is there a way you can think about and approach the game that doesn't just try to fix symptoms but which cut to the underlying reason and addresses that?

Personally, I find that playing fewer tables in a studying/practicing mode actually help me. And with other kinds of tilt it's the other way around and I need to increase my number of tables.

I think the real success will probably come from questioning assumptions and being better to listen to all manner of inner voices. As an example it's probably patently wrong to consider myself a one-tabler, 4-tabler or 12-tabler. Instead, I should open up a table, determine if I'm playing well and if I am open another - until I hit the equilibrium where I am working optimally - so I need to constantly self-assess if I'm playing well and make adjustments to not just my game but also the way I play the game (including such things as how many tables I play) to ensure that I am playing my A game. Anything that can take me off my A game I need to recognise when it happens and accept the consequence. Maybe I just need to take a break.

Imo think about how you can recognize in yourself when you have patience and when you don't.

I'm struggling with this manner of thing myself and it's the reason for me dumping 2/3 of my bankroll recently (half of which I've won back). But really, the trick is not to bandaid obvious symptoms but rather to develop strategies that prevent them from occurring and developing good (or in poker-speak profitable) habits.
vey interesting analysis. From the sweat session that we did I never noticed that you seemed to get impatient and tried shoving where you shouldn't . Is that because you were analysing and discussing your plays and the reasons behind them so that you didn't get time to be bored , as well as not wanting to spew off too many chips with someone watching. As such could that be a solutiion for you . record each session and give a running commentary as you go. Any hands you want to review you can compare what you were thinking with what you should have been thinking now that you have the extra information. But thats not really the point , the point being that you keep yourself busy so that you don't get bored and impatient so there's no need to force it to gt action.