Struggling

[2damnhype]

Been working up to this thread for the last couple of weeks, and apologies but it more about getting things off my chest, but any advice is appreciated (including any calls for me to jack in :) ) Have been playing online for about the last 18 months. Started off playing pretty much exclusively on Paddy Power, micro STTs then onto $3 / $5 and a few $10. Was doing okay, kept records of games played and results. I then started downloading other clients, getting involved in the PL games, managed to have a couple of good finishes in freerolls to put $300 in my neteller account. Haven't really used that money, have made a couple of deposits and a couple of withdrawls so its still around the $300 mark. A couple of months ago i felt that i was spending my (restricted) poker time chasing around different sites for free cash and not really concentrating on what i was playing, I wanted to restrict my playing to more or less a couple of sites (Poker.co.uk, Paddy Power) and get back to playing the STTs. So when threads were posted for the tracking spreadsheet and Staffy and Hodgys STT challenges I decided it was time to give it a go. I am currently 30 STT into my experiment and am getting murdered, I have won 2, finished 2nd once and 3rd once. I dont multitable and i dont get the opportunity to play every night, so for me this represents a 3 week run. I know its only a small sample and things should/will turn around, assuming i am not a complete muppet, but Christ it is frustrating, if i end up in situations where its overcards v pocket pairs then it doesn't seem to matter which side of the equation i start on, i always end up on the losing one!! Or I get things like this:

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Hand Start.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 1 : notyuh has $1,555

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 3 : OutsideEdge has $2,520

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 4 : CHOMPSnROX has $2,210

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 5 : soxman41 has $2,270

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 6 : 2damnhype has $2,220

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 7 : laban123 has $1,240

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 8 : eamobud has $3,510

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 9 : Ace's Lacey has $2,475

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : laban123 is the dealer.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : eamobud posted small blind.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Ace's Lacey posted big blind.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Game [18] started with 8 players.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Dealing Hole Cards.

[Jul 17 22:55:28] : Seat 6 : 2damnhype has 7d 6d

[Jul 17 22:55:30] : notyuh folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:30] : Stakes: 50/100 Current level: 3 Next level in: 6 min.

[Jul 17 22:55:39] : OutsideEdge called 100

[Jul 17 22:55:42] : CHOMPSnROX called 100

[Jul 17 22:55:42] : soxman41 folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:45] : 2damnhype called 100

[Jul 17 22:55:48] : laban123 folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:49] : eamobud called 50

[Jul 17 22:55:50] : Stakes: 50/100 Current level: 3 Next level in: 6 min.

[Jul 17 22:55:53] : Ace's Lacey checked.

[Jul 17 22:55:53] : Dealing flop.

[Jul 17 22:55:53] : Board cards [6s 4c 7c]

[Jul 17 22:55:27] : eamobud checked.

[Jul 17 22:55:29] : Ace's Lacey checked.

[Jul 17 22:55:34] : OutsideEdge bet 500

[Jul 17 22:55:41] : Stakes: 50/100 Current level: 3 Next level in: 6 min.

[Jul 17 22:55:49] : CHOMPSnROX has 10 seconds to respond.

[Jul 17 22:55:52] : CHOMPSnROX folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:54] : 2damnhype called 500

[Jul 17 22:55:55] : eamobud folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:55] : Ace's Lacey folded.

[Jul 17 22:55:55] : Dealing turn.

[Jul 17 22:55:55] : Board cards [6s 4c 7c 9s]

[Jul 17 22:56:28] : OutsideEdge bet 1,920 and is All-in

[Jul 17 22:56:30] : 2damnhype called 1,620 and is All-in

[Jul 17 22:56:30] : Showdown!

[Jul 17 22:56:30] : Seat 6 : 2damnhype has 7d 6d

[Jul 17 22:56:31] : Stakes: 50/100 Current level: 3 Next level in: 5 min.

[Jul 17 22:56:32] : Seat 3 : OutsideEdge has 4d As

[Jul 17 22:56:32] : Seat 6 : 2damnhype has 7d 6d

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : Board cards [6s 4c 7c 9s Ah]

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : Seat 3 : OutsideEdge has 4d As

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : OutsideEdge has Two Pair: Aces and 4s

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : Seat 6 : 2damnhype has 7d 6d

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : 2damnhype has Two Pair: 7s and 6s

[Jul 17 22:56:37] : OutsideEdge wins 4,740 with Two Pair: Aces and 4s

[Jul 17 22:56:41] : 2damnhype : ffs

[Jul 17 22:56:44] : OutsideEdge : yep

[Jul 17 22:56:47] : CHOMPSnROX : lol

[Jul 17 22:56:47] : Hand is over.

I must stress my comment in the chatbox is totally out of character, but this hand made up my mind that i would make this post. Any way thanks for listening (or should that be reading!!) and I hope to be able to report healthier figures based on the advice given. :ok

[Penelopeys]

Re: Struggling which stakes are you playing?? I know for a fact that you WILL get more bad beats when you play low stakes... because more muppets are in them and they will call everything with crap hands and often get lucky. Therefore, play higher stakes!! And play VERY tight to begin with... losen up later on, when people start to leave the table. Don't play hands unless they are good enough to raise preflop!! I am not posting this following bit to brag!!!! BUT... I always play $ 50 ten seat stt's on sporting odds. Starting stack 2000. Playing like above... I almost always end up in the money. STT's are VERY different from MTT's IMO. In STT's it's all about survival untill 3 is left... In MTT's it's all about getting more and more chips... taking chances and hoping to benefit from it. You don't have to take too many chances to make it in the stt's... You just have to survive... :ok