I'm quitting poker... (1 Viewer)

[Ronoh]

While technically correct, there is no scenario where this guy bets $20 with deuces, then calls a raise to $50 with pocket deuces.

But this never happened, there was no 3-bet preflop.

Some examples of my NOT getting tilty.

You care way too much what people here think of your play

Your biggest problem, or what will eventually become your biggest problem, is that you run well. You run REALLY well and as far as I can tell you've never even come remotely close to a bad run that most of us who have played a whole lot of poker consider "normal". I mean, one of your go-to I don't tilt examples was losing broadway to 2-pair that boated in the final three of a tournament that you'd literally won 15 all-ins in a row in

Does this outcome suck? Obviously... but if losing one buy-in on one hand can make you consider quitting the game then I can't imagine what's going to happen when you inevitably hit one of the ruts that myself and others see regularly.

I could be wrong, maybe you run like the rest of us and just don't post it but that just doesn't seem like you. I just see you giving a lengthy explanation to Dave on why his post doesn't apply when the fact is he has all of it exactly right in his response.

 

[Anthony Martino]

BGinGA said it perfectly already. The mental game is extremely important for long-term poker, you absolutely have to be able to shrug off those swings. I too suffer from "poker nostalgia" where I can't get beats from a decade ago out of my head, and what "could have been" while I barely remember the times I was the fortunate one in a hand.

I think it comes from a feeling of entitlement, like you feel your skill or the beats you've already suffered (at the table or in life) mean you are due for a win, you deserve it, whatever. Trust me, I can definitely relate to that feeling, and it is a struggle to combat it, but it needs to be done or poker will devour your soul.

At the beginning of last year I had just relocated with my employer from CT to Florida. I started playing at the Hard Rock in Tampa and it was going pretty well, and work was kicking my ass and the stress was eating me alive. I wound up quitting my job without being adequately rolled to try and make it playing poker. I immediately went on a month-long downswing where I lost thousands, I seriously did not win a single session for an entire month and I was playing full time.

My employer wound up taking me back, because the person he hired to replace me wasn't cutting it, and gave me a redefined roll to help reduce some of the stress I had been feeling, but I also took a 20% paycut when I returned (but it was better than the alternative, winding up homeless).

So no, you aren't alone in allowing those hits to get to you. It's a lot easier to play poker when you aren't worried about money and bills and you can take the hits because you're rolled correctly for it. I haven't been back to the casino since, but I still play some home games and attend meat-ups as my schedule and budget permit.

 

[ChaosRock]

I'd like to add to the encouragement but I have to say your opponent hitting a ONE OUTER on the river SUCKS! I don't care who you are, it SUCKS! I will say it's happened to me (losing side) a few times but never on the winning side. I mean the odds, my God. So yeah, the card dropping on the river would irk me as well. This doesn't mean one should stop playing, but man at least recognize that SUCKED!

Yep...

 

[doakwolf]

Yup, as already said, don't quit - go play that table again and profit when the rivers don't hit

Bad luck on that one. I recently decided to stop casino play for a while and just focus on home games after losing a large buy-in. Not on a bad beat for me just a silly call haha.