Way Too Tilted

Posted by icemonkey9 on Jun 9, 2009 in 6max | 1 comment

Unfortunately this is another sucky post in terms of "how I am doing at the NLHE tables" for recent play. The results at the tables have been horrendous and I think I'm more upset about realizing how tightly wound up I am and how tilted I am playing at the NLHE tables these days. Hit a string of coolers + cold cards = weak passive play tilt-a-thon. I'm spewing now, so I know it's time to quit playing Hold'em for a while. The thought of looking at HEM right now makes me sick. The good news is that before things got really ugly, I got myself away and did a nice good honest reflection of how things were going. These periods of tilt/bad-play come up for all players and the best possible way to approach it is to calm down, assess what's going on and then take appropriate patient action.

I wish I could say it's a string of horrible beats but the last few days has been plainly bad play. A good friend and math genius, C9, was really cool enough to do a video, where the tough love came out and really exposed my "confidence-tilt" for what it is right now. I'm doing just the most random stuff like turn and river betting ridiculously small, and slow playing marginal hands at the flop. It's like I decided to abandon the game I was playing last month and play terrible poker this month.

So, I'm down, it sucks more because it's not bad beats but bad play this time - it just hurts so much more when you lose because you're BAD at poker lol. Doesn't feel good to admit it either. In the meantime I'm finishing up an investigation into a story to see if some of the major poker rooms have actually lost their means to have funds available for players. I'm actually pretty concerned about two sites in particular but I don't want to post anything because nothing is concrete. However the fact that none of the major rooms will go on record or make any announcements is *very* troubling in my mind. Can't reveal too much but the truth is coming...