When to call it quits?

By: jon dom

Here's a few thoughts for OP and the many others like him.
1)Poker is a game of decision making - not making money. Focus on improving your decisions - preflop, flop, turn, and river...I guarantee that you are weaker at some than others. Work on it
2)Reading books is a great way to get the framework for how to play - but it is NOT everything. It is all about applying the theory that you learn in books to the tables. Those that can - will win.
3)Breakeven is pretty impressive - as noted, the average player is a loser by the amount of the rake.
4)Six months isn't really alot of time pokerwise. After six months I thought I had figured out the game. About a year later I realized that I didn't know crap and started working harder than ever on my game.
5)Make sure you are getting what you want to out of poker. It's a rough road at times getting good at this game, and it takes a ton of time/effort to get there. Make sure its something you enjoy doing, because otherwise it probably isn't worth doing!
3)Open up pokertracker, click on the preferences tab and make sure nothing is filtered out of your database.
4) Click on the Game notes tab and then on the "Get all" button. Sort the "Net" column by biggest losses and review the top 20 or 30 biggest losing hands you played and identify why and how you lost that money. Was it a bad beat, a standard loss that is impossible to get away from (set vs set, KK v AA etc) or was it being too lose preflop.

I did this recently and discovered over 50% of my biggest losing hands were me overplaying a single pair ! A huge leak which I am now in the process of plugging !
Another piece of advice: Get a blog, and write up each session on that with at least 4 hand discussions - your 2 biggest losses and your 2 biggest wins. Having a blog forces you to review your sessions and as people start reading it, you will get feedback too.

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