Losing patience

[Mike]

I get so frustrated.I keep losing my patience during mtts. Suddenly I just go for some stupid draw without any thought of folding and I am out after X hours often play leaving a position where I usually have about the 10 % biggest stack or better.The worst I have performed is when I won a satelite that sent me to another sattelite that I won.Then I am in a $300 buy in tournment. The biggest buy-in I have played. During the first 2 hours I play very confident and of course with some luck. I read the play perfectly. My stack is now 32 k (biggest). The second biggest stack is 17 k and the 3rd about 11 k. There are 23 people left.

After the break, my confidence is totally lost. The good hands don't come to me ( except a 99 - late position that gets reraised by 3 stack to all in from BB - had aces). Seeing my stack shrink and shrnk and shrink makes my patience go bananas. Suddenly I am out as nr 14 or so.

Has anyone been in the same situation?

[dev]

Yeah, and after reading the replys to Chard's post I'm seriously considering going back on ADD meds. But god I hate drugs...

[drtofu66]

Scotty Nguyen-- WSOP ME 2007

Happens to the best of them

[DBL0SVN]

After the break, my confidence is totally lost. The good hands don't come to me ( except a 99 - late position that gets reraised by 3 stack to all in from BB - had aces). Seeing my stack shrink and shrnk and shrink makes my patience go bananas. Suddenly I am out as nr 14 or so.

Has anyone been in the same situation?

You're playing scared because you are way over your bankroll. I bet you don't lose confidence in a $10 tournament. Better to take the T$ and play tournies suitable for your roll.

[Mike]

Good point of playing at lower stakes. However, at the operator I played, you can't take the ticket from the satellite and make T$ out of it.

I agree that the solution should be to only play $10 and $20 tournments, and it is probably the optimal thing to do. However, I think I have that much knowledge that I can play higher, but it's just the mental part of it. My idea now is to have a buffert that I feed with winning easy games and then I try to win satellite to bigger once from there.

[Reidak]

However, I think I have that much knowledge that I can play higher, but it's just the mental part of it

So what good is your 'knowledge'?