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Old 10-04-2006, 06:27 AM
Wardfish Wardfish is offline
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Default Re: Psychology of losing even when your \"ahead\".

I dont think, like some previous respondents, that this is purely a bankroll management issue.

I have just had a similar 7-hour stretch where I have lost 7 buy-ins. I have over 40 buy-ins remaining, but I have been annoyed by it. I have tried looking at my results in graph format, and this has helped me realise that these things happen, but it is difficult.

We have all had similar bad runs in the past, and similar great runs. I think the problem is we start to think that when things are going well we have mastered the game: that we are playing in a low-variance way and that we will steadily win on a consistent basis.

Obviously its not like that, BUT WE FORGET.

I think back to a quote from Ben Roberts (top cash game player):
"We must concentrate on the decisions we make in the game. There are wins and there are losses and at the end of the year you add them all up and if you have made good decisions the wins should be more than the losses."
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