Black strip in game
The charismatic professional player in the poker successfully playing both in online poker, and in offline one, and on any limits, the prize-winner and the winner of many poker competitions of the highest level, including the winner of main tournament World Series of Poker 2000 – Chris Ferguson, will tell what to do, when the game goes bad.
You can see it immediately, when the game goes bad, you can not understand why, but you precisely know, that now you have a black strip in your life. There is no exact concept of this condition, because for different players in poker it is different. For somebody defeat in 12 sessions of the game in a row is a sign on a black strip, for others it is loss in tens coin-flip during one poker session. Definition of the black period in game depends on the player, his relation to the certain failures at the table.
No matter what definition of such condition can be, but the fact remains that anyway everybody will experience heavy days sooner or later. What distinguishes successful players in poker from losers? It is how they supervise themselves and the bankroll during such black periods. For me, the black strip does not mean defeat within several days or reception of several bad beats for one game evening, it is only a game part in poker. Really game does not go when such unpleasant moments occur throughout the long period of time.
If you are not assured, whether the game is proceeding or not, you should analyze step by step the results of last sessions and if for the last weeks or even months you see a train of evenings with losses then you possibly are in a black strip and you have some problems in game. The key to an exit of such negative period is to understand, what your problem is, what is wrong in your actions.
For many players the black strip can lead to a circle of the constant defeats leading to loss bankroll. They begin to worry because of several defeats successively and run in Tilt because of this they start to play badly, that leads already naturally to a new train of defeats and surely to a depression. The vicious circle turns out: “they lose because the game goes bad”, instead of “the game goes bad because they lose”.
If you look at the game thoughtfully you will see, that actually you play correctly, but you just haven’t luck, so carry on playing then. Aces lose to smaller pocket pair, your set is beat by flash, and quite often you began to beat, pulling different poker combinations on river is my advice, take a break, walk and come back for a table with a fresh head and emotions. Do not change in such cases the style of game; continue to choose the best starting hands, play solid poker and good luck will necessarily return to you.
No matter what you have decided to do, never pass to the higher limits to win back the losses. I saw many players who lost all the bank-roll because of it: tried to play higher limits on good luck instead of continuing to play clever poker even if for this purpose and it is necessary to go down on a lower limit. Try to understand, that if you go on the big limits with inappropriate bankroll, you subject your money to the higher risk, that you may admit, it is very simple in such situations to lose everything that you have.
On the other hand if you go down on a limit or two beneath you risk very small quantity of the stack and can easy restore the losses, let not as quickly as on your limit, but it is reliable. We take, for example, me if I go down on a lower limit after a black strip, than I will need maximum a month to restore the play on the previous limits; and if I went up I would need a year to restore the initial bankroll. Powerful argument if you really appreciate you time.
Anyway your emotional condition influences game, if you feel good most likely you will play well and if it is bad – then on the contrary. Heavy times are game part in poker, they give you ability to control and perfect yourself during such periods to let you become in the long-term prospect a good poker-player.