Dealing with tilt
Hey, I've been running bad these last couple of sessions and i wanted to have some advice on how to deal with it.
I consider myself to be a fairly above average poker player, my bankroll is 50€ and i recently decided to take a shot at 0.1/0.25. I know this is considered suicide given the size of my bankroll but i've been observing the tables and I think i can beat them.
Long story short : I lost all of my bankroll. This my graph for the sessions , and i simply think i'm running bad, Two major hands I've lost were all in where Villain shoved bottom pair and I called with Top pair top kicker and binked trips on the river, another one is where I shoved top pair top kicker on spade flushdraw flop, villain called with A high Q spades and binked Backdoor Flush draw against me.
When I see my result on poker tracker they are showed as a losing player but, on most of these hands I were the favorite and got outdrawn.
Should I just move down stakes and build bankroll ? I'm planning on depositing another 50€ and go for it again. but I could use some guidelines and recommendations on when to move stakes so as to not go broke again. Thanks
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its 400 hands and 2 bi.
It means nothing... like not kind of nothing, not sort of nothing, literally absolutely nothing.
I'd recommend 20-30 buy ins (bi) for a limit. If you played 5nl, then that would be $100-150 and if you moved up at 20-30bi for 10nl, then that would be at $200-300.
being up ev shouldn't be a cause for disappointed, you should try and fix that in your mind. I agree with brokenstars about BRM although maybe you can get away with 15-20 buyins at the nano stakes if you are just 2 tabling max. But yes you won't get anywhere in this game with just 2 buyins.
My best advice for general tilt that has helped me massively is just to play very short sessions about 20 minutes, 1 table, and think very closely about every hand and decision. Then when you don't feel tilted you can play a bit longer sessions/more tables.
you'll never climb the limits shottaking too aggressively. you'll be too scared to make what you know to be a profitable play and just look for juicy high equity spots, which aren't common in NLH. IMO learn to be satisfied by slow but steady progress and get used to the swings - they're part of the game
