Cold decked!!!
Ok i need some advice here, i have been cold decked fro the past 3 months. Havent won any of my cash games or tourneys. Bad beat city, one after the other. Now what should i do here? should i play through it? take a couple months off? Its getting expensive to keep playing, im stuck enough already. But i know it has to break sometime.
Just wana know if you gusy have experienced it and if so what did you do to get over it? thanks alot guys.
Just wana know if you gusy have experienced it and if so what did you do to get over it? thanks alot guys.
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On the other hand, I've noticed a lot of losing streaks are mostly psychological. Someone has a bad week so they start feeling sorry for themself and losing confidence, causing them to play badly for months. If you think your bad run could MAYBE be a result of your mood or current situation, I would wait it out until you feel positively about the game again.
when you on tilt, you'll think you are playing good poker, but it's not.
last night, i have a set running into a bigger set. then put me on tilt.
i lost that tournment, and 4 after that.
only after i have cool down, i came back and a 2nd play to a 45 player tournment.
after that set to set beat, i become like Tuff_fish.
complaint, i can't get a hand.
bitch about donky calling my raise with that and get lucky
complaint about how come i can't get lucky.....etc
but we know poker need some luck, but it's not luck that will win the game for you. Skill is the key.
the very last game, which i got paid, I have cold deck too, but i wasn't on tilt.
so i change my play, instead trying to get those dead money by enter alot of pot, I play less pot, and play well when i enter. I took down small pot with bluff, i double up with big hand. I think before short-handed. I only enter about 13% of the hand that are dealt to me. but i won 85% of the time.
tips:
1)if you know, luck is angry at you, don't go into coin flop situation. I have lost 12 preflop allin yesturday. (I lost all the colin flop yesturday)
2) when luck is angry at you, don't move allin to stop people on a draw, they'll get it, and all you can do is crybaby.
depend on the pot. small pot. i bet the pot. big pot, i'll check.
Note: "above tips are only suitable when luck is angry at you"
Luck cannot be angry at you.
Losing 12 coin flips does not mean you need to stop taking them, poker is a game of time, if you loose your next 100 000 coin flips then you will have an anomaly you could write a dissertation on.
If you are lucky enough to find a table of players that will always call your all-ins on draws – please tell me where you play and at what limits – so that I may profit from their mistakes.
The most important thing is to probably look at your HH and re-evaluate your play.
Ask,
Were you really in a coin flip situation? If so, were you the aggressor or were you the caller?
Did you have enough chips back to get the other players off draws? Or, were there enough chips in the pot to justify their calls?
The worse thing you can do is use luck as a scapegoat for a leak some where else in your game.
This is not meant to be demeaning in any way, but rather to be used as constructive criticism. Focus on the constructive.
Please download the spell checker on this site.
This is not a shot, but the English language is being abused way too much in your posts.
wow!
Does the spell checker include a grammar checker? I don't even think that would help
Excellent comments, I agree completely about the luck thing.
Now a run like originally posted, I've had a few different times in my life
Go back to basics and read a book, preferrably one you've read before and possible made notes in. I mention this partly to reinforce Tom's idea of reviewing your play but also because sometimes you notice something you missed the last time.
Another step I have done this time around is lowwered the limits I'm playing for, when i get my confidence back up and have the track record in my favour again then I'll probably go up in stakes again.
ATM_GP
I believe the term "cold deck" refers to a new pre set deck being "slid" into a game.. But I digress..
For each of the last 3 years I have gone on a 2-3 month losing streak. At first it is just bad luck or bad karma for some shit I have done in my past, but after about 6 weeks I become the problem. Because I am used to running into bad luck or bad beats I start to play scared instead of my normal aggressive style. At that point I am screwed, because I am now the table bitch..
My advice is to take a 3-7 days off (not 2-3 months) and read more and then drop down limits. If you play online you can even play some freerolls but do NOT play with the play money. That will probably make things worse.
Read, drop down limits and keep reading.
GL
I disagree with your disagreement.
He can play $.05-$.10(or less) Limit or no limit without risking his WHOLE bankroll I would imagine.
He tells us he is a very good player so I suspect he already has the basics down pat and therefore no use for play money lunacy.