Does Poker Tilt Go Away or Get Worse? (The Shampoo Effect)

Just watch to see the connection!

[wallstreetviking]

But what if you are just.... Unlucky 🤷😎🤣💯

[jordangreen]

Thank you Mr. Poker Coach Sir. Lol seriously though. Thanks for ALL the advice. On and off the "Felt"

[DoubleBassX]

Nobody is expected to read this but here goes.

Lost or betrayed is a good way to describe how I feel.

Redline shoots straight up, blueline is negative though, but I'm somehow still not a winning player online, even at the micros.

-1bb/100 over 300k hands at the micros.

Been studying seriously for about 3 years now but playing for 13 and I've only ever made money playing live.

I think in range vs range at all times and understand how different range compositions prefer different sizings to maximize both fold-equity and value and I'm always very aware who has the nut/range advantage and the morphologies of the ranges involved and which sizings make the most sense and whether or not my range even wants to bet.

My postflop strategy against the pool involves overfolding all my indifferent bluff-catchers particularly on rivers and even more/earlier against nittier players.

I consider the consequences of splitting my range on the flop when deciding to bet or check as the pfr and usually try to find ways to avoid this without sacrificing significant EV by forcing a bet.

When oop in srp as the prf (open, and BTN flats) there are many boards where I'm just checking range and if IP checks back I get to blast on many turns because he's capped and mid-heavy and I still have my entire c/r range from the flop.

I know very well how to play most 100bb or 200bb effective BTNvBB srp and 3bp from both sides. Finding the x/r lines nobody sees. My sizings are very sound and I typically size to target either the widest part of their range (think flop or turn) or if their range is mostly strong hands then I size to target those instead.

Can someone help me understand why I'm still a losing player?

[gcraigen]

When I first started poker would tilt very easy. Learned how to play poker better. Then would barely tilt. Could laugh it off very quickly. Now I find tilt getting harder and harder to control. Now I just stop if I get really tilted.

[bluedonkey]

just become a robot then you won't have to worry about all this

[locodogg]

Been there and then one day the losing stopped and I was on a tear winning again, bankroll was growing and I was closing in on a new dollar peak, then I start losing again and the b/r is taking a beating before I figure it out again. Beware of playing too many hands and playing OOP

[jonslg]

Sometimes if you're continually unlucky it means you're playing wrong.
Sometimes you're just on a long bad beat run.
And lastly, sometimes people adapt and you haven't yet..

Those are probably, in order, the main reasons why.
If you've been a solid player for years and years it might be the middle one, then the last one, then the first one
If you've only been winning for a shorter period, it might be the first, last, then middle.
Some people win for a few months or a year, then the cardroom "gets to know them" then they start losing. Or they win for awhile then change their game and play looser.

[derekalt]

Dude Phil we should drink beer and shampoo our hair and then you can spit some knowledge at me, we got good beer, great shampoo, and terrible poker players in montana!!!

[Mufasa]

I've had a strong mental game for my ten year career, but after a brutal downswing of losing every significant allin and losing for a year straight it only takes 1-2 bad beats or coolers for me to lose my shit. Anger, anxiety at being allin, depression. A year ago I wouldn't have thought I could turn into such a mentally weak loser.

[Thejacka]

Yeah, you can’t be unlucky… ITS NOT REAL.

Of course you lose some 88% equity hands… SO BE IT.