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Message: [QUOTE="Matt_Burns88, post: 5916779, member: 343619"] Hi David, I definitely think online poker can be draining, especially when you're on a downswing. Live you get to socialize and talk through hands and figure out what you did wrong, or get reinforcement from peers that you played it well and got unlucky. Variance is definitely higher online, not because the sites are rigged, or anything like that. Variance is a bigger issue online because there are bigger fields, faster structures and more aggressive opponents. You need a change of mindset when it comes to bad beats and coolers and there are a few things you should do to help with this: > Bankroll Management - Playing with a substantial amount of your net worth is a guaranteed way for the losses to be way more painful than is healthy. Personally I never buy-in for an MTT for more than 1% of my BR and my poker money is completely separate from my "real life" money, so if I lose for weeks on end, I'm never worried about how I'm going to pay the mortgage. > Hand Analysis - For me, reviewing hands is a brilliant way to get over frustration because hands almost always fall into 4 categories, or a mixture of 2 or 3. 1) Bad beats, I got it in waaay ahead and the opponent makes a big mistake. You should be happy about this every time. The outcome really isn't important because if you run that situation time and again, you're just going to be printing money. 2) Flips, You're going to win flips and you're going to lose flips. Getting your last 10BB's with AQs is the right move. It doesn't matter if you get called by 99 or whether you win or lose. 3) Coolers. If you flop middle set against your opponents top set, you just can't get away from that, you're destined to lose your stack and that's OK. 4) Mistakes. You're never going to play perfectly. I love it when I review my games and I find mistakes in my game, because it gives me the opportunity to improve my game and next time I play, I will be that little bit better and avoid make the same mistake again. I touched on this earlier, but you have to forget about the outcome of each individual hand. Instead focus on the equity your play is worth. You could get AA vs KK in preflop 5 times in a row and lose each time, but overall you are killing your opponents in this situation in the long run with as much as an 82.6% favourite. Before the river it is very rare that you will have 100% equity, which means you are SUPPOSED to lose some percentage of the time. Coming to terms with this is a really important factor of the game. If you're flipping out every time you're losing to the 2 outer on the river or the runner runner, you're thinking too much about the short term outcome, rather than the long term equity where you are printing money. I totally agree that if you can play well online, you can play well live, but remember that limits are not immediately transferable. A £50 live tournament at your local casino is likely to be quite soft, whereas a £50 online MTT is likely full of very capable players. Same with cash. A £5/£10 game probably plays more like a $0.50/$1.00 game online. [/QUOTE]

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