Hugs to you all

But you are correct, if you are not excited about playing and thinking about how to play every hand based on your position, and who is left in the hand and making bets with yourself about what players have when you are not in a hand…Your are probably better off reading a good book or writing about poker.

I built my first bankrolls at limit Holdem and Limit Omaha H/L so if I made a mistake – it was not insurmountable in a few hands to recover. NL is much different.

I know your game will come around – You are smart and use good common sense – an unusual combination that makes for a great poker player!!

Good Luck and Hugs Back at Ya!

Techman

The freerolls i play aren’t for everyone it’s either pcs or holdemradio i play!
I enter these freerolls to keep my patience in trim and focus more on the strategies then on the bankroll! On occasions now i started to play some sitngoes or leaguetournaments but only when i feel i’m mentally ready for them. As in yesterday i was gonna play the leaguegame but realised that i wasn’t up for it! I simply forgot about time and that was a good pointer that i shouldn’t play since i wasn’t prepared! Aaaah you get my point huh?

I mean if you can’t feel the heart pumping from the thrill when getting your hands then you need a break and that’s what i’ve taken. Slowly beginning to feel the urge of calculating the pottodds now so i’m back bit by bit!

Hugs to you all

When poker stops being fun – it is time to stop. When I stopped playing professionally and went to Iraq where no play was possible for 11 months – Poker had become a chore, a job I had to do and Winning at poker was getting harder and harder…

My first R&R (8 months in) I decided to play – I found a site where I literally had $1.25 (JetSet) and over 3 days built it to $200 and had a great time!! After that I got access from time to time and had success most of the time.

When I got to Afghanistan – it was another solid 6 months of solid no play and this time I struggled, my Bankroll just kept going down, slowly, but down…I had started worrying about how I was doing again and it was affecting my play – first playing way to passively, then over compensating by playing overly aggressive. I finally was able to be situationaly aggressive, bluffing, continuation betting – but always mindful of my stack in relationship to the blinds.

Yes, I still take frustrating bad beats, but those do not take me out of the tournament, just set me back so I have to work on building my stack back up…and get back into the tournament or Sit-n-Go.

You must be a very good player to navigate through freerolls so frequently. I imagine you are losing at micro tables and those are hard, a raise does little to limit your competition or what hands you are likely to be facing. The good news is as you build your bankroll, the poker you read about in the books and on the Internet becomes real.

If you can’t have fun, knowing you played good poker and lose – take a break or you may lose you love for the game.

Good Luck Whatever You Decide,

Tim

Netty, You know that I’ve had the same feeling as you for sometime now. I’ve lost my ‘poker-mojo’! I know it will come back in time, but to be honest, I’ve rediscovered a lot of other things to do instead of playing poker all the time. I’m enjoying life away from the virtual felt. But the big difference is when I do play the odd game, I’m a helluva lot more focused and tend to do very well – especially in sit and gos.
Maybe that’s all you need. Go and rediscover other pastimes that you’ve had on the backburner and spend some time away from the computer. Hopefully it will work out the same as I seem to be doing.