hey everybody,I'm currently playing a lot of husng's (mostly turbo's) at pacific poker on the 1$-level and am beating them fairly easily - I've played about 550 of them in the last 6 weeks and have won an average of 67% of them.The reason I haven't moved up yet is because I still 'tilt' in the sense that I feel just awfull when I lose and barely feel able to play in a decent way...the only thing that really helps me deal with this is to just keep looking at my cool graph and remind myself that 67% at the turbo's is about as good as it gets and that I'm doing fine...I would however like to move up to the 5$-husng's and grind there for a while untill I feel really comfortable and relaxed playing (with no racing heart and gut-wrenching feelings when someone sucks out on me)...In order to help me win the maximum amount of games I would like to use sharkscope to game-select...this would work out fine at party-poker where I am considering playing because you can wait for someone to sit, then click on the other seat - reserving that seat - and then you have 12 seconds time to sharkscope him...The problem with that however is that party charges 10% rake at the 5-dollar-level and I don't like that very much...Are there any other sites where you can 'reserve' a seat for a few seconds giving you time to sharkscope someone at the 5 dollar levels? (on pokerstars for example the tournaments fill up way to fast otherwise) - a site without 10% rake???Thank you,P.S. Please don't reply by saying I don't need to sharkscope because everybody at the 5$-levels is a fish - there are huge differences in the skill-levels of players at the 5-dollar-levels and my goal right now isn't volume but simply to win as much matches as possible to ease my tilt-issues...
I would suggest looking at dealing with your tilt issues directly, while you're still playing lower stakes buyin games, rather than trying to avoid having to deal with it.I'll say you have a point about there being a wide variation in skill (or lack of) with players you face in the $5 level. A 67% winrate is evidence of that. Why play a guy you have a 59% winrate against if you can wait a few minutes for one you have a 70% winrate against? Now, you could be running a bit hot if you're not playing a very slow and deeper structure, but you can adjust my example #s to get the point regardless.Now, the big negative of game selecting:- Games fill up so fast in the $5 games on many sites, making it very tedious and difficult (sometimes impossible even) to game select. You don't want to game select if you have to really focus and use up energy and end up waiting 10+ minutes for a game. It is not worth it for any player to go to such lengths to find bigger edges in these games.So what I would suggest doing, is really focusing on what bothers you about losing. Try to really understand variance, understand equity and why you should absolutely never expect to win every single match, even if you are always the favorite to win it (what I mean is that if you lose, you need to understand that it is normal and not take it so hard). If you can't do that, it's going to unecessarily eat up a lot of energy and stress tolerance when you lose and cause you to play a lot less quality volume than you otherwise are capable of putting in, whether it be 200 games instead of 300 or 1k games instead of 1500 games.In ITRIED's 16th video, he pastes a ton of links to articles that might help you deal with tilt, it's in the comments of that video, so that's probably a good place to start.But absolutely focus on ridding yourself of the tilt, winning 67% of your matches over 550 games and still tilting is a pretty major problem, but not one that cannot be corrected. You just have to make sure to really work on this issue, rather than try to avoid it, as it'll really prevent you from winning as you move up. No matter how many games you win, you'll want to move up sooner or later.
on PKR you can sit for a few seconds before registering, dont know the blind system and starting stacks anymore.
When I played on PKR around 10 months ago their HUSNG reg speeds is basically the same as Full Tilt Turbos (maybe a little faster). I gave up on it becase the blinds raised so fast relative to the stack sizes that every game was essentially a coin flip.