Interesting theory, but I'm afraid it's off the mark. There is no other _____ going on. I mean, there have been some real life expenses that have piled up recently, so I'm happy to cash out and take care of some of those, but that's not the REASON I'm cutting back on my poker playing and moving down. PAying off those bills is more like a nice side effect from me cashing out.
As for your question about how dropping down will help me, I fully intend to beat the hell out of the lower limit games... hopefully I'll REALLY beat them, but right now, just beating them a little bit sounds a lot better to me than breaking even or losing at the higher limits. This "running bad" streak of mine has been pretty bad. While it hasn't been THAT many hands in the grand scheme of things, it's been a long time, because of the limited (compared to the serious players) number of hands I play per month. I am well aware that great players can be losers over 10k, 20k, and 50k samples, but it's still hard to not question your own play when you are in the middle of one of those streaks... And a lot of the time, the questioning leads to making unnecessary changes and the next thing you know, you ARE playing badly. As an example, with $200 sitting in front of me, getting it all in when I know I should is going to be a lot easier for me than when I have $1200 sitting in front of me. And when the moron inevitably sucks out and scoops the $400 pot, that's not going to sting nearly as much as the $2400 pot. Go through that 2 or 3 or 4 times in a night, and it gets old FAST.
I've played 2 nights of 1/2 so far. I made a small profit last night, despite running below average (IMO). The night before, I played 1500 hands. I made one terrible call, but other than that played very well, and got "clobbered." OK, definitely not "clobbered," but I ran terribly and dropped almost 2 buy ins or so. The thing is, this didn't even make me flinch! Not only was the damage minimal, but if I had run just average (let alone good), I would have been way up. The only conclusion I drew after that session was how much I was looking forward to playing again, because these stakes are SO SOFT compared to what I'm used to. Table selection wasn't a problem because I was having trouble finding a table with 1 or 2 bad players - it was a problem because so many tables had so many bad players! I ended up 6 tabling, and it was cake.
It's too soon to speculate, of course, but I'm guessing (hoping) this will be a good thing for me, will build back up my confidence, and will help me stop hating poker.... and maybe even get my passion for it back again. If it doesn't and I go busto, meh. At least I cashed out a lot and didn't risk tilting off my entire roll.
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06-14-07, 04:55 PM
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