Saturday, December 25, 2010

Managing losing Sessions

How to you manage losing sessions? First of all set yourself a limit of money that you are allowed to lose. Learn to focus. Barry Greenstein wrote that once he starts to notice he plays bad going to the bathroom and taking a mini break to refresh helps him to re-focus and that if he catches himself playing badly after that stopping sounds like a good decision.
Losing is part of the poker game, you can't avoid it. Maximizing your profits when you are winning and minimizing your losses once you are losing should be your number one goal.
Don't reload like a retard. Once you have lost your money twice and it was not to suckouts or bad beats: take a break. There will be another game tomorrow. Beating the game is the most important component of playing poker and if you can't manage it, stay away from it if you worry about losing your rent money.
Analyze your plays and find out if you are tilt resistent or if you are losing a lot money due to tweaking your play when you shift from TAG to MANIAC.

To make a long story short. Monitoring your play at poker through the use of pokertracker or something similar will improve it. Work on your game, not on your deposit request stats.