i may take a break today from the 180's and play on a different site or just play summit else.

thanks for everyones support,advice and feedback........appreciate it.

will just leave it for the bad beats that need time to cool off for posting.

Morning Ashley.

If you don't mind me saying, I still think you are running at this the wrong way.

Firstly, yes, a great idea to calm down, let the steam subside, after you have become a bit angry, or tilted, mad, upset, whatever, at a beat.

But.....

All you are doing is addressing the symptoms, not the cause. The symptoms are the annoyance, the angst, the tilt, but the CAUSE is getting upset about the beat in the first place.

If you cure the cause, the symptoms will not appear again.

So we need to try & rationalise these "beats" which stick in our mind.

1) We remember the beats, but we tend to forget when we hold, or when we suckout on others. It cuts BOTH ways, don't use selective memory, you are only harming yourself.

2) Bad beats. If you play - say - 10 Tourneys or SNG's every day, you ARE going to experience, say, 20 bad beats per day. You just ARE. Nothing you can do will ever stop that. It is how poker works. Always has, always will. EVERY player suffers them exactly the same. Everyone. Nobody on earth gives a toss about your beats, we have our own. We all do. Every single last one of us. NO EXCEPTIONS.  

So let us assume 20 per day, that is 140 per week, over 500 times per month you are going to get uppity.

Does that really sound like fun, something to look forward to?

Any good player will work that out over time, & stop wasting negative energy on fretting about bad beats. Why worry, we cannot prevent them, they are natural, they ARE poker.

Look at the top pros on blonde, generally speaking they just shrug their shoulders & move on.

As a little experiment, try this. It will probably cost you $10 or $20. maximum. Play half a dozen $2 Omaha SNG's or DYM's. Bad beats? You ain't seen nothing until you play Omaha, trust me. Bad beats are x times more prevelant in Omaha, but Omaha players understand that. Next case, move on, sorta thing.

Anyway, I hope some of that helps. It pains me to see amateur poker players - 99.9% of us are amateurs - not enjoying the game as they should. Personally, I can't begin to imagine playing a recreational game in which I knew I would get upset every day. Makes no sense if you think about it, does it?

Good luck.

thanks for going to all this effort to help me out.i know how bad variance can get and that everyone has to deal with it,im a very competitive person and i hate losing "even at monopoly" the thing is when i post things like "another pathetic run" it may come across like its getting to me but in reality it is not at all,im always hard on myself if i dont do well always have been and always will,it just makes you try harder next time imo. im not a robot im human and i have emotions im not just going bust like 6 in a row then come and write "oh well hope it goes better next time" im going to write it as i see it.i am enjoying playing aswell because if i wasnt i would just not play,

27 played -$73.17 <-------------makes me sick just looking at it,still a miniscule sample tho i guess.............chin up!

out in 17th for another pathetic run.

once again lost a flip at crucial time QQ v AK

12/18

nice, how many runners? GL!

      is just one of the 180's

itm right in the middle of the pack 13/27

just 1 left and doubled on the bubble QQ v AJ

so sick played 7 today busted 5 out the money only 2 left,last 2 for the night.

this getting annoying now just busted another sitting on bb with ato and like 7bb im thinking just fold to the sb and then hope he shoves<---------------that does happen but ofc the sb has ak hahahahahahahahahah just fired up another 3 come onnnnnnnnnnnnnn! i need to get a top 3 pronto!...................will keep you updated.

i know this 3 bet looks strong imo but can i fold here?


PokerStars Hand #95919003152: Tournament #707266627, $4.10+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2013/03/21 19:14:01 WET [2013/03/21 15:14:01 ET]
Table '707266627 14' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Bangggaard (2202 in chips)
Seat 2: remcovn (4204 in chips)
Seat 3: shevalex09 (7903 in chips)
Seat 5: ashj22 (2698 in chips)
Seat 6: PNZ04 (750 in chips)
Seat 7: Fagg8 (1075 in chips)
Seat 8: traxting (1270 in chips)
Seat 9: fizzlediz88 (2315 in chips)
Bangggaard: posts small blind 50
remcovn: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ashj22 [ ]
shevalex09: folds
ashj22: raises 100 to 200
PNZ04: folds
Fagg8: folds
traxting: folds
fizzlediz88: raises 400 to 600
Bangggaard: calls 550
remcovn: folds
ashj22: raises 2098 to 2698 and is all-in
fizzlediz88: calls 1715 and is all-in
Bangggaard: calls 1602 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (383) returned to ashj22
*** FLOP *** [ Ah]
*** TURN *** [ Ah] []
*** RIVER *** [ Ah ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ashj22: shows [ ] (a pair of Queens)
fizzlediz88: shows [ As] (three of a kind, Aces)
fizzlediz88 collected 226 from side pot
Bangggaard: shows [td ] (a pair of Aces)
fizzlediz88 collected 6706 from main pot
Bangggaard finished the tournament in 93rd place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6932 Main pot 6706. Side pot 226. | Rake 0
Board [ Ah ]
Seat 1: Bangggaard (small blind) showed [td ] and lost with a pair of Aces
Seat 2: remcovn (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: shevalex09 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: ashj22 showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 6: PNZ04 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Fagg8 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: traxting folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: fizzlediz88 (button) showed [ As] and won (6932) with three of a kind, Aces

busted 2 180 sngs ran QQ into AA and then lost AA v QTs

out of micro mill lost another flip AK v QQ zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz