Re: Maintaining discipline during bad, improbable runs
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I think I'm just not playing my best when those hands are still in my head. I'm playing the hands for the big pots badly this way and that should be a reason for me to quit.
I still don't have the discipline to do it but I'm working on that one.
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What I usually do in these situations as well as those described by CmnDwnWrkn is something different.
I know, if I quit, these hands will stay in my head as the last hands of the session and will affect my play the next time I'm at the tables. So I do the opposite, I keep playing but switch to something completely different and (preferably) harmless. $0.04/$0.08 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo, for example. Just a few hands of a variant, I don't really have too much ambitions with, to distract me. Even if I loose, the loss is marginal and I'm not so much in this "why me?" mood anymore. Usually it's even possible to go back to the NLHE tables right after that and play more or less unaffected again.
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