I finally know what it’s like to run bad at HU hypers. I played the same player 18 times and lost 14 of them. I actually didn’t even win one until the 12th try, so that was interesting.
He ran $900 over EV, so I know I just got unlucky. Thinking about how tilted I got, it wasn’t TOO bad. I think I was most tilted after I lost the first five, and then it slowly got better from there mostly because of the absurd ways I was losing.
I’m learning that I get most tilted when I lose and then think I might have played (or did play) badly. Getting 2-outered repeatedly is infinitely easier to deal with than playing terribly. Out of the 10 matches that I lost, I think I made just one big mistake and the rest couldn’t be helped. There is a chance I made several smaller mistakes, but I think I overall played fine.
I don’t like how I felt annoyed after losing the first handful of games, though. This is something I need to work on.
Something else I also have to work on is eliminating the urge to berate people in chat when they play terribly but still win. I swear that I will one day realize that this happens ALL THE TIME in poker, which is why the game is profitable. I rarely act on the urge to berate, but even just feeling the temptation to do so is unacceptable.
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