A pattern that keeps happening with my sessions

[guitarizt]

This is starting to become a habitual pattern and I'm not totally sure why.

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I feel like people start not folding to me somewhere in the middle of the session and if they stay I can sort of figure them out and adjust and then I'm clawing my way back to even at the end of the session until they leave or I need a break.

[piguanitore]

3 hours sessions are hard to go through...I think it's just an illusion, I kinda have the same thing myself, where I lose when I sit down, need some time to get used to the tables then win a bunch then the more i sit the more i lose, so i try to play shorter sessions to stay fully focused.

[petenilson]

any results over 1k hands are pretty meaningless.

[guitarizt]

Originally Posted by petenilson

any results over 1k hands are pretty meaningless.

Yeah but it's the most common pattern over more than 60k hands in a month. I think the problem is that I lose that killer instinct and go soft on people after I get up money. I also tend to go on auto pilot probably. I think the reason this doesn't happen when I start the session on a downswing is that I'm way more focused if I start out and drop a bi.

I'm starting to play way more again and I think that's helping with not being result oriented. I've started eating better and exercising and it's making an incredible difference.

[FabledHero]

Originally Posted by guitarizt

I think the problem is that I lose that killer instinct and go soft on people after I get up money. I also tend to go on auto pilot probably. I think the reason this doesn't happen when I start the session on a downswing is that I'm way more focused if I start out and drop a bi.

I'm starting to play way more again and I think that's helping with not being result oriented. I've started eating better and exercising and it's making an incredible difference.

Protecting your winnings is fairly common. As you said you have to focus on becoming process oriented instead as opposed to results oriented. Focus entirely on your play and try to figure out your mistakes. The money will come if you do that. Given the only thing you can control is how you play, always be aware of what you're doing and why, try to figure out any leaks. Whether it's mental game, logic, or mathematical. Then work hard on fixing it. Being aware is the first step. Fixing the problem is the next step. The way you can do that is specifically focus on these leaks and challenge yourself to fix them each session, until eventually it's ingrained unconsciously what the right process is in that situation to go through.

[Eu.Era]

I find that i start off wining a BI or 2 and slowly start to lose when people start calling me down light because i have bullied them out of a few pots and they feel sour. Then i start to get a bit annoyed and lose my A game and lose even more. My solution to this is play 1 hour sessions with 30 minute minimum breaks in between.