The topic of 'Are you a Winning Player?' has just been posted on the RTR Forum and it has got me to thinking about the time I've spent playing NLTHE Poker.
First off, until recently I hadn't had any Bankroll Management record in place but I'll admit right now to being a losing player. Over the three years of recreational play ($5/$10/$20 SNGs and 25c/50c and 50c/$1 Cash Games and a few live games in cardrooms and casinos), I'd estimate that I'm around £500 down.
Despite two recent wins, which in monetary terms show me as being £20,000 up, I still class myself as a losing player as I have posted more negative months than positive ones. I still regularly take shots at stakes out-with the comfort zone of my Bankroll and I regularly go through phases where I lose faith in my instinct and ability and this usually results in failure to make big lay-downs / value bets / re-raises (as I'm sure many of us do) and I do believe this is what causes me to have to re-deposit regularly.
From game to game Poker tests your ability and keeps senses sharp thanks to the hundreds of the different situations we find ourselves in be it during a Cash Game, a 5 minute Heads Up SNG or a 7 hour MTT. As my memory is not great, I tend to forget some lessons I've learned the hard way and fall into the same / similar traps many times over. I do think that I have a reasonable level of understanding of the game and as a result have made some serious money from it - I'm just not consistent.
Blogging it out in this way has been good. I don't think I have taken the time to look at myself from the outside like this before. Using this post as reference and with proper Bankroll records now in place, I hope to be posting a 'Yes' answer to this question in the near future.
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really like this post Neil,
readin it i felt i could have written the words myself! prior to the last few weeks this is exactly how i was feelin and the questions i was asking myself. following a bad run for a few weeks and after one particular bad beat i had deleted all record of my results to date and stopped all online playing. even when i was playin i was doubting my abilities.
Its only in the past few weeks, with some nice results, that i have felt like my old self at the poker tables and its time to get my records and bankroll management back in order!
enjoyin ur blog mate, keep up the good posts!
Billyho
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