Dealing with losing a big hand

[david3103]

^^^^^^^^^

what he said, plus my AK always loses out to A rag, my QQ always sees a flop full of As and , and my flopped straight always gets called by someone with 2 pair who makes a FH

also, why is it that whenever I correctly read my opps shove as being speculative (OE straight or flush draw) and call with my TPTK or better, I lose?

because its a c*nt of a game sometimes!

  no better way to put it lol

Perfectly put!

[snoopy1239]

I play mostly MTT. Sometimes when i play I get a really good start to things and find myself in the top 10% of players. Whenever I lose quite a large portion of my stack e.g. 6000 ----> 3000 in one hand I tend to play more reckless and take more chances. Even though, after I have the chunk taken out of my stack and I'm still at average chips, I tend to go on a 'minor' tilt and start playing hands for the sake of it to try and recoup.

Do any of you more expereinced players find that when you lose a large % of your stack you go a little crazy and take more chances and if so how do you deal with losing a big hand. Because I'm finding that a little difficult...

This isn't exclusive to you, plenty of people do it, even 'minor tilt'. My advice would be to sit out for a couple of hands, punch a pillow walk downstairs and just do whatever you can to recompose yourself. Always being able to talk to yourself in these situations is a handy attribute.

[OnTheCards]

plus my AK always loses out to A rag, my QQ always sees a flop full of As and , and my flopped straight always gets called by someone with 2 pair who makes a FH

That's just the rant of a losing player (not neccessarily saying your a losing player) but your AK doesn't always lose out to Arag and your Q's don't always see a flop of overcards. Poker is about accepting that sometimes the better hand loses and you have to deal with it. It can be a c*nt but the 'deal with it' part is always the hardest part to cope with in most players and thats the main reason of me starting this topic...to try and deal with it.

Thanks for the advice snoopy.

[kinboshi]

I play mostly MTT. Sometimes when i play I get a really good start to things and find myself in the top 10% of players. Whenever I lose quite a large portion of my stack e.g. 6000 ----> 3000 in one hand I tend to play more reckless and take more chances. Even though, after I have the chunk taken out of my stack and I'm still at average chips, I tend to go on a 'minor' tilt and start playing hands for the sake of it to try and recoup.

Do any of you more expereinced players find that when you lose a large % of your stack you go a little crazy and take more chances and if so how do you deal with losing a big hand. Because I'm finding that a little difficult...

This isn't exclusive to you, plenty of people do it, even 'minor tilt'. My advice would be to sit out for a couple of hands, punch a pillow walk downstairs and just do whatever you can to recompose yourself. Always being able to talk to yourself in these situations is a handy attribute.

Better than a wall.