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Success going to your head???

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Bodddders:
We all know that variance is part of poker life. I"m sure we have all been there. One month you hit every flop and manage to lay down strong hands at the right time. You cash in SNG"s one after another and Poker seems so easy. Then it comes back and bites you. You start missing every flop, eveyone outdraws you and you cant win a cent.

But I also think the standard online is getting better and better. As you have said most of us have read at least a couple of books, we buy the magazines and plough through the forums for advice and tips. Yes there are still fish swimming about but I believe they are getting harder to find.

I mainly play SNG & MTT at the $10 to $20 level and was wondering is there much of a difference in the standard of play between these stakes and say $50 to $100.

Anyone get much experience at these levels.

hi_am_chris:
One thing to remember when moving up the levels is that the players there are not always better players, sometimes just richer players who find it too boring playing lower levels. Obviously you are going to get better players aswelll though

mal666:


My question; Can success/confidence be detrimental to your game?
 
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it certainly was for me.i qualified for the ept season 2 on pokerstars for 30fpps.
www.pokerstarsblog.com/2006/02/getting-real-in-deauville.html
anyway i went on to finish in 15th place in the main event,my confidece went through the roof as u could imagine.but with my newfound wealth/confidence i then went onto record my worst 5 months results id ever had.
but i realised what was happening took a step back(almost like looking over my own shoulder)and basically forced myself to play abc poker until i was sure id got the monkey off my back.anyway it worked and i was soon back to winning ways.

monkeyman:
I find the best way of retaining confidence is to use a number of different sites. If you"re doing badly on one, give up and try a different one. I"ve got 12 differents sites downloaded on my computer and although I tend to rotate around a handful of favourites (Betfair,Pokerstars,Partypoker/Empire) if none of these are producing the goods, I"ll play somewhere else for a while.

KingPoker:
Depends what you play in all honesty.

If its cash then if your on a losing session for more than a coupe of days then some would say its variance but more than likely its your game thats at fault.

If your losing repeatedly analyse your game, yes you may have lost with ur race with JJ against AK but was there a need for it to go to a showdown could you have limped in/flat called the raise to get away from a flop containing an A or K?

You cant simply put a bad run down to bad luck, your game is never going to improve otherwise if you simply say oh well i played as best i could and just got unlucky, did you though?

There is normally something you could have done to avoid a certain outcome in poker and my suggestion would be if you look back over your Hand History for key turning points in an MTT and post them on the Blonde Hand Analysis board and see how some of the big MTT winners on there would have played it.

As you said though its only only in the last 2/3 months that your poker has taking a turn for the worse so im sure it wont be long before your game gets back on track but just never forget to analyse your plays and exits/wins in tourneys, what did you do that made you win/lose/make money.

Do your homework is my advice, and as you have gone through the process of reading a lot of the literature to improve your game previously i can see you being willing to put the time in for anlaysis (havent proof read this and have a feeling i have used the word analysis a lot).

Good Luck and WD in ireland.

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