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This game is all about ignoring your natural instincts and using math and logic in their place; personally, I enjoy that challenge.
Many of your disadvantageous actions are the result of your human instincts overwhelming your logic and reasoning. When you decide, for example, to quit for the day because you've already lost too much, you know logically that you should keep playing but emotionally your brain wants to stop the pain of losing, so you don't risk losing more. Ploppies are worse: taking even money is a good example - human brains are happier getting paid for sure than risking getting nothing.
I have two suggestions for you:
1) Invest .125% of your BR in CVCX. Use it to optimize your ramping. Then use it to reduce your stakes to the point where losing sessions that will upset you will be rare (perhaps losing more than $500 in 2 hours becomes a 2SD event, so 95% of the time, your sessions will not "hurt".) As your emotional tolerance for negative variance improves, raise your stakes accordingly. I find tolerance for losses increases quickly. The first time I lost more than $1000 in a session hurt less than the first time I lost more than $500 - because my pain tolerance was much higher.
2) Change your thinking. You can only control how well you play; you can't control what happens to your BR. Focus on playing your best game and generating EV. Instead of getting emotionally wrapped up in what's happening to your bankroll, mentally step back from the money and be curious about what's happening to it, but as an observer, not as someone who's invested in it. When you lose, instead of thinking "oh shit", it should be more like "huh! negative variance - how about that?"
You should be getting more upset over any sub-optimal play than over your session results; if you're not, you're focusing on the wrong things and in the long term, that's what will hurt your bankroll.
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