Some days its just not ur day

Poker is a math game. If ur playing good and the game is good you shouldnt get up even when ur losing....The logical person in me wants to agree with this. I mean mathematically, its true. But the degenerate gambler in me who has been playing this game for 7+ years, coming up on 3 fulltime says BULLSHIT!

Some days its just not ur day. Some days they are gonna hit their draws and ur gonna miss/take beats. Some days its just not ur day.

Which to go along with my br management i outlined in my first strat blog post, i set a stop loss. Generally for a session i will set my stop loss at 3buy ins at which point i will take a break, go vent, run errands, whatever. After i feel like my mind is cleared ill come back and give it another shot. If i drop 2-3 more buy ins, im done for the day. I dont care if its lunch time and i have nothing planned, i just take the day off and do something else.

Yesterday was one of those days for me....so after i dropped 5 buy ins i started this blog =)

Then after this blog i hung out with some friends came back and at midnight tried another session. I guess the poker gods decided i was cutting it to close and i dropped another 2. I didnt let it bother me but instead watched a movie and went to sleep. This morning i woke up showered and boom shipped about 4 buy ins.

So while i didnt stick strictly to my stop loss, i also didnt dwell on my above average bad day. Because i have healthy/conservative bankroll, and because i didnt lose a lot at once, but rather spread it out over a few sessions, it didnt feel that bad and i woke up this morning and was not even close to tilted.

If u feel ur neck warming up and ur veins pumping. Take a step back and no matter how good the games are know that the games arent going anywhere and maybe something just isnt clicking that will click tomorrow.