Fatigue (or something)?
Am basically a live player only, not full time. But, I used to play 2-3 times a week until a month or so ago in various raked and unraked games. Most of the games were pretty good, and I am a winning player. Low stakes, never more than 5-10, and that's very rare.
A few things all sort of happened or came to a head about 4-6 weeks ago:
1) I had a losing session wherein my discipline was nowhere near up to winning standards. I should have quit or at least taken a break but instead dumped 2.5 buyins in a reasonably big game. Was OK as far as my roll, but has affected me mentally since.
2) I learned the host of this same game has, in the past, done some less than ethical things as far as rake, divulging hands to people after the fact, which I have been assured will never happen again. I stopped playing as much, however, because I stopped going to this game.
3) ...which isn't that big a loss except for actual playing time, because this game and most others are simply not as good anymore. The action players have stopped coming or have tightened way up, and it's now basically a grind unless you have the deck. In trying to adjust, I have found myself making more ill-timed bluffs than usual and being called pretty light, but also getting less action on my big hands.
When I do play, I have at least not continued these mistakes quite as much, and so feel like I'm still playing OK, especially in adjusting to tables or players who are super tight. Still, these three factors interchangeably have left me not even feeling like playing and feeling way more critical of myself and thus less confident. How does one snap out of this kind of stuff and get back on the horse?
Last edited by gansen; 05-22-2011 at 09:19 PM.
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