Hi all. Im having some troubles with keeping focus playing husng under 20$ BI. Im on my way out of a downswing, so i moved down to 5$ husng. There its pretty much just playing fit or fold, basically. But i get really bored and try to outsmart a non-thinking player to fold his buttom/middle pair, witch never works and my bluff is caught. :-) Yersterday i went busto. In now im trying to find out what is best for me to to. Maybe to make a deposit big enough for me to play a bit higher or maybe i should really just try to work on my discipline?? Or maybe just multitabeling??Im pretty sure im not the only one in the world that has been struggeling with the same problems. So if you have had the same problems and overcame it or if you have a good advise, i would really appreciate it. :-)
Work on the discipline, if you can't get yourself to try hard or focus in the $5 games, it's unlikely you'll do better at higher buyins. I hear the same thing a lot "I can't focus at low stakes, higher stakes are easier" but I've never seen any actual evidence of this being true (probability says that it's happened before, but unlikely to be the true case or effectively true in most cases).RecommendationsIf you have a standard membership, start with Cog Dissonance Video 44 - The Importance of FocusIf you have a premium membership, Mersenneary's Life Coaching video is also excellent.Also, if you have either membership, premium (600+ videos) or standard (300+ videos), you'll find that improving your decision making and recognition of what your opponent is doing AND the best way to adjust, that can often help you feel more confident, focused and less tilted.Put it this way, if I gave you 2-1 on a coin flip, you'd snap take it and not care one bit if you ran bad for 10 flips, as long as you could keep wagering you would crush me long term and you'd know it, not think twice, etc. Heads up poker is more complex, but do yourself the favor of focusing on your decisions and not on variance or buyin or anything like that. Be confident that if you focus only on decisions, not EV graphs and profit and not on dreams of making it big overnight or making $10k in 100 games, then you can allow yourself to become a solid player long term, and that should be everybody's goal (aside from recreational players).Looking for some free inspiration/ideas?HokieGreg answered some mental game questions in a recent article, there's also a great article he wrote and linked to on that page, about halfway down, read that as well.
if you are single-tabling, try playing two tables. i had the same problem, then when i added one table my decisions became really basic, almost fit/fold style and sudenly my BR went up again. so turned out i was bluffing too much and outleveling myself at low limits.give it a try, i think you'll notice quickly if it works for u or not.