Yea thanks for the support guys. I dropped to $50NL and it took me a couple buyins to adjust to the even poorer play but the money felt kinda soft. My concern here is that I tend to clal bets too often becasue of the price. I focused in on BB's and not $ figures and played ok. Some small mistakes like thinking they are playing back at me when really they just wait for a hand. I think I am playing better on the turn and river which is where I lose focus.
I mentioned that it's my big pot game giving me issues. Fnord asked about my small pot game. If you guys look at any of my graphs they are all small pots making profits and then one or two big losses wiping them out and dropping me. There are not a lot of small losses and big wins. I get it in too light. I make some bad bluffs with little or no equity and think that my FE will cover the losses but no chance.
BJ, your right that I chase what I feel is my money with guys that are unquestionably bad. What I need to learn again is that I will get their money and not force it. It's ok to open a little vs a 50/15 when he limps, but getting stacked w/TPNK vs a brutal 2pair is no excuse when they will stack off with TPMK. I can't give them reason to double and leave.
Andy, I agree. I think it's almost all mental. These huge falls in my graphs are not just variance or playing bad. I am sure we could go through the hands I have played over this swing and pick out a ton of bad plays. If we posted them under somebody else's name I could easily point out what they did wrong, and that tells me I am mentally off. My thinking gets skewed, and i become very machine like in just calling and frustration makes me just keep calling because"They just can't have it everytime". As for getting some coaching, it'll have to wait, since I basically blew the BR on this last swing and certainly since following the same $5K problem in December. I have spoken to ISF about my study habits, Griffey has been talking to me about some situations I am getting myself into at the tables and I am trying to talk this through for now. I have that page by Alexos that I am trying to wrap my head around and I have tow vids from DC on tilt by Studentcaine that are supposed to be pretty good.
right now my only concern is turning this around and not dealing with the issues. If I go back to winning and don't figure out both the triggers and how to stop it, it will happen again. So I will focus on the emotional parts for now in this op and not my play.
