Getting sick of this game

[IvonAce]

I keep bubbling, two nights in a row in the $1250 I bubble with AK vs Ax, I wouldn't mind so much but it's constant for me. Each one on it's own is no biggy but added up :(

I just have to face it that I'm unlucky and give up this game.

[lucks00]

It's tough to go on a bad run like u r right now. Nothing seems to go right, even tho u play near perfect. A good idea would be to take a break and step away from the game. Not saying ur on tilt, but it'll just feel better when u come back to play again. And u'll know when to come back. GL

[Steves22]

Man I know how you feel i'm still in this horrible slump for about a week now. It's just terrible. Been making the right plays and getting beat horribly in every tournament i'm playing in. It's sickining. I'm starting to question if i'm playing right trapping people so much but it's the right play and I have been way ahead in a large percentage of the showdowns only to see that lovely river pop up with just the special one they need.

[IvonAce]

My bad run is about 2 months now! I spend a lot of time analysing my play, and sure I make some mistakes as everybody does but most of the time I get deep in the MTT and then when we're at the bubble stage I lose with the best hand and instead of winning that hand and definitily cashing I go out. This happens a lot; I sometimes think that maybe I should fold the best hand to try and crawl into the money but I want the chance to win the whole thing so if I know I'm infront I'm sticking it in in the late stages.

What annoys me though is that if I'm going to lose a 75%'er and go out why can't it be near the start of the tourny where it won't matter or feel bad and save me precious time. It's always after 2-3 hours when that hand would have meant cash and I've wasted valueable time.

What I hate about this game is that I'm just good enough that I should be profiting so I can't get away from the game. I wish I'd never come back lol I enjoy playing poker but when you're losing it's hell. It's unlike any other game, when you play golf it can be heaven when you're on form or hell when you suck but poker can be hell when you're ON form!

I know I'm not the greatest but I see winning/profit making players making lots of mistakes. I don't mean the 'shall I play this hand' type mistakes I mean the pure skill ones like betting the river at the wrong time etc. I probably should be playing cash tables but I only have the role for the micro's.

Losing at this game feels like somebody running around telling lies about you behind your back.

Anyway...:beaten:

[Miklosik]

if this same stuff is happening to so many of us, then who the heck IS winning? We can't all be in such a bad slump for crying out loud. Oh wait, I forgot, 1Snake is on a roll atm.

I wish I could offer some words of encouragement but the game is driving me crazy right now.

[IvonAce]

I think it's the day-of-the-donk end of the world.

I sometimes see somebody with a big accolade and they play like ****, I think wtf maybe they dont' care about this level but it's the same whenever I see them. You check out there SS and they have the one big win and nothing else.

Or you see somebody playing like a complete donk and they are a mega-profit player. They're raising A10 utg and calling allins and winning!

[JayNYC]

Food for thought: Try playing like a complete donk.

[1SnakeBite1]

My bad run is about 2 months now! I spend a lot of time analysing my play, and sure I make some mistakes as everybody does but most of the time I get deep in the MTT and then when we're at the bubble stage I lose with the best hand and instead of winning that hand and definitily cashing I go out. This happens a lot; I sometimes think that maybe I should fold the best hand to try and crawl into the money but I want the chance to win the whole thing so if I know I'm infront I'm sticking it in in the late stages.

What annoys me though is that if I'm going to lose a 75%'er and go out why can't it be near the start of the tourny where it won't matter or feel bad and save me precious time. It's always after 2-3 hours when that hand would have meant cash and I've wasted valueable time.

What I hate about this game is that I'm just good enough that I should be profiting so I can't get away from the game. I wish I'd never come back lol I enjoy playing poker but when you're losing it's hell. It's unlike any other game, when you play golf it can be heaven when you're on form or hell when you suck but poker can be hell when you're ON form!

I know I'm not the greatest but I see winning/profit making players making lots of mistakes. I don't mean the 'shall I play this hand' type mistakes I mean the pure skill ones like betting the river at the wrong time etc. I probably should be playing cash tables but I only have the role for the micro's.

Losing at this game feels like somebody running around telling lies about you behind your back.

Anyway...:beaten:

Food for thought: Try playing like a complete donk.

totally agree with Jay:eek:
my game improved 10 fold since i started donkying close to bubble!
i would rather finish 25 then 11-14th anyday

either way youd be surprised how many people fold monster hands at this stage waiting to make FT:wave:

[IvonAce]

Yes, but my point is that I amgoing allin with 11-15 players left but losing with the best hand because I want to finish high rather than crawl into 10th and then not have the chips to do any better.

I made a thread a few weeks back about donking around to win and everybody said not to and to stick to making correct decisions :beaten:

[DJHarmon]

this happened to me in a cash game last night on another site.....

Hand#2098014508000420 - Singapore 14508 -- $0.05/$0.10 PL Omaha H/L -- 2010/01/02 - 02:40:51
Seat 1: DJHarmon ($5.68 in chips) DEALER
Seat 2: FEAR***2 ($1.99 in chips)
Seat 3: Damn***3 ($7.55 in chips)
Seat 4: Alex***4 ($12.12 in chips)
Seat 5: pfat***5 ($13.85 in chips)
Seat 7: RJul***7 ($6.02 in chips)
Seat 8: tinw***8 ($3.90 in chips)
Seat 9: Watc***9 ($2.48 in chips)
Seat 10: Mr80***10 ($4.54 in chips)
FEAR***2: posts small blind $0.05
Damn***3: posts big blind $0.10
Dealt to DJHarmon [Ah,9s,Jd,8h]
Alex***4: folds
pfat***5: folds
RJul***7: calls $0.10
tinw***8: folds
Watc***9: calls $0.10
Mr80***10: folds
DJHarmon: calls $0.10
FEAR***2: calls $0.05
Damn***3: raises to $0.60
RJul***7: calls $0.50
Watc***9: folds
DJHarmon: calls $0.50
FEAR***2: folds
*** FLOP *** [Ac,As,2c]
Damn***3: bets $2
RJul***7: folds
DJHarmon: calls $2
*** TURN *** [Tc]
Damn***3: bets $3.10
DJHarmon: is all in 3.0800
Damn***3: returns uncalled bet $0.02
DJHarmon: shows [Ah 9s Jd 8h]
Damn***3: shows [Kd 3c 4d 4c]
*** RIVER *** [5c]
***SHOW DOWN***
Damn***3 wins high pot $5.68 with Straight Flush, Five high
Damn***3 wins low pot $5.67 with As 2c 3c 4d 5c


I feel your pain........:beaten::beaten::beaten:

[Survivor777]

Yes, but my point is that I amgoing allin with 11-15 players left but losing with the best hand because I want to finish high rather than crawl into 10th and then not have the chips to do any better.

I made a thread a few weeks back about donking around to win and everybody said not to and to stick to making correct decisions :beaten:

Bad run for two weeks now for me too. Here's a good one for ya, and guess where the player is from ... Twitter freeroll today, sat out first hour and that worked well cuz the field was so large. Well there was a "r" donk who was going AI every fn hand. I get AK diamonds and shove, he calls with J7 off :beaten: :eek: :rolleyes: SICK MORON won it! and no neither of us were in the blinds. These players have been absolutely ruining my A game for the most part, and I'm sure most of yours too. Haven't even played much this week cuz of holiday stuff and was busy, but what I have played has had a sick turnout no matter what I do. There were a few cashes but thats it. Something has changed and I don't know what, and its not my game :rolleyes: Guess there are a lot of us in the same boat :(

[IvonAce]

Maybe it's the player base here now and we need to adjust somehow, but there's only so many bullets you can dodge.

[IvonAce]

You know what else I hate about being an unlucky loser? The fact that it doesn't matter how big the field is you still play for a couple of hours and bubble.

Earlier today I came 22nd/763, I won several allins and even came from behind late on when getting blinded out. What is the point in that? Why can't you win as many allins in smaller fields? If that many hands held up in a 100 man MTT with the 2 wins from behind too I'd have won it probably :)

[Zypher22]

It is ridiculous, I have "quit" playing poker....atleast online poker...several times now, and I'm about ready to again.

I just don't get it, just a little bit ago I'm in the BB with KK (blinds 10/20) Player 4 to my left makes a large over bet (375ish). I make min reraise, to which they reraise all in (75 more to me). They turn up J-10 offsuit.... How is that worth a raise in that spot, not to mention a reraise....

Flop is A-J-x, Turn is 10 and river blank...So this donkey idiot takes most of my chips by playing like a complete idiot. It's play like this that really makes me question the integrity of online poker...

[1SnakeBite1]

dont play much live than i see!

[Zypher22]

I have played live a lot up until the last year (moved out of Vegas and no casinos where I live now).

Yes there are donkey's everywhere, even in live games. I have seen some crazy things in live games, but much more online...

[Miklosik]

I have played live a lot up until the last year (moved out of Vegas and no casinos where I live now).

Yes there are donkey's everywhere, even in live games. I have seen some crazy things in live games, but much more online...

honestly, I think that's because you've soooooo many more hands online than live. multi-tabling, multi sites etc...

[1SnakeBite1]

honestly, I think that's because you've soooooo many more hands online than live. multi-tabling, multi sites etc...

stole the words from my mouth

[Miklosik]

stole the words from my mouth
lol, i've been called a theif more than once.:D

[Zypher22]

I'm sure it's also the stakes I play online (typically freerolls and low stakes), doesn't make it any less frustrating...

Also doesn't make me want to deposit to play higher stakes.

[Steves22]

My bad run is about 2 months now! I spend a lot of time analysing my play, and sure I make some mistakes as everybody does but most of the time I get deep in the MTT and then when we're at the bubble stage I lose with the best hand and instead of winning that hand and definitily cashing I go out. This happens a lot; I sometimes think that maybe I should fold the best hand to try and crawl into the money but I want the chance to win the whole thing so if I know I'm infront I'm sticking it in in the late stages.

What annoys me though is that if I'm going to lose a 75%'er and go out why can't it be near the start of the tourny where it won't matter or feel bad and save me precious time. It's always after 2-3 hours when that hand would have meant cash and I've wasted valueable time.

What I hate about this game is that I'm just good enough that I should be profiting so I can't get away from the game. I wish I'd never come back lol I enjoy playing poker but when you're losing it's hell. It's unlike any other game, when you play golf it can be heaven when you're on form or hell when you suck but poker can be hell when you're ON form!

I know I'm not the greatest but I see winning/profit making players making lots of mistakes. I don't mean the 'shall I play this hand' type mistakes I mean the pure skill ones like betting the river at the wrong time etc. I probably should be playing cash tables but I only have the role for the micro's.

Losing at this game feels like somebody running around telling lies about you behind your back.

Anyway...:beaten:

YESSSS EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKIN ABOUT!!!!
That is exactly what's been happening to me. I make it deep into these things with a good amount of chips but i'm not just gonna try in limp to the final table. I wanna win these things. But then I make a good play get it all in with the best hand and get outdrawn. Happened again today in badugi freeroll. Woulda had 34000 in chips. And I can't even begin to tell you how many times i've been getting outdrawn in holdem...

[IvonAce]

I've only ever played live once and the players were just as bad, my hands held up though and I came away with 8 buy-ins :)

[DJHarmon]

I've only ever played live once and the players were just as bad, my hands held up though and I came away with 8 buy-ins :)

this , too , has been my experience live.........i started out on line........was skeered to death to play live.........but played tag and have always left the tables a winner except once, and was only down half a buy in but i had changed my game and was playing skeered so I got up and that's my only losing session live.........

I have only played live about a dozen times........much prefer it to on line.........

[Miklosik]

I play live at least twice a week. I much prefer to see the face of my opponent. And I'm so much better at it. The only advantage to online play is that I can wear my pajamas and slippers.

[lucks00]

Live is fun and I play occasionally. I would recommend playing live for the online players that haven't play it yet. Yea, u get to see their faces and it's obviously easier to tell what ur opponent has. Also its fun to talk to people and just have a good time.

But the good that comes from online are the small buyin tournaments and cash tables. Live, the lowest buyin is 1/2 and tournaments are usually expensive although there are some $25 close to where I live.

And once u play a lot of online poker and can win in it, u can make some good money playing small stakes live. It doesnt take long to tell which players like to bluff and which can fold easily.

[1SnakeBite1]

I play live at least twice a week. I much prefer to see the face of my opponent. And I'm so much better at it. The only advantage to online play is that I can wear my pajamas and slippers.

dont forget laundry. cooking, homework, real work ect ect ect.....
:P