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Statistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:52 pm
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I'm a bit busy this weekend but will have a look at those articles in time. Whether it'll help, I dunno
mainly because I can't quite put my finger on what my "problem" is or what I'm asking - I guess it might just be the fact that I sometimes get too involved in the game (because I like it so much) and thus can't emotionally distance myself from wins and losses. I think I feel a little bit like every serious player feels every so often, and it's probably no big thing. One good session will probably cure it, albeit in the short term.Certainly, however, my attitude to the game is something I need to work on -at the end of 2004 I set myself some "goals" for this year, perhaps next year I should work on some ideas to progress my game, and perhaps I'll think about what those ideas might be in the next couple of months.
Thanks peeps.
Monk
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Statistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:31 am
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On a more serious note, the International Moment(s) of Poker Zen:
An article on "success" and "failure" by Gigabet:
For deeper reading, the 2+2 thread that inspired a lengthy response that became the above article:
The actual lengthy response that became the above article:
In case it's not obvious, I am a big Gigabet fanboy. His HHs on a big SnG (posted by ship_it_tome) were a real lesson in poker for me.
Anyway, Monk, I've personally watched you take about 2 large from the party 100 and 200 tables in the past couple of weeks, and i fully expect to see it happen again (most likely sooner rather than later).
Cheers!
Statistics: Posted by Kuso — Sat Sep 17, 2005 1:38 am
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Basically, my problem is justice - the whole idea is so deeply grained into my soul that it becomes part of poker playing. Every last fibre of my being (especially given my personal life, yeah, you need to be here to appreciate the irony) realises that everything you said is quite right and it's utterly wrong for me to throw so much personal feeling into the results of my omaha game. I sat down twice this last session and realised that I was the THIRD best PLO8 player at the table ($200). That's right, THIRD best, without argument, and I knew it. Below $1k buyins, that's not happened before. I am ashamed i tried to do silly things to try to establish my cleverness. Time for me to "suck it up" and realise that making $2-4k a month without lifting a finger is no longer a walk in the park.
As you said, it's time I danced with the one that brung me, and stopped ignoring the fact that life, and poker, is situational. Sometimes people lose. And, overwhlemingly, I win the size of people's BRs in a few weeks, even sometimes in a session. Bad beats will continue to happen. I will continue to feel robbed, and yes, I will continue to whine. But from now on, I hereby promise not to complain about two-bit losses and silliness, and finally start playing online with a better attitude to the game. Just have to work out how!
Time I stuck this no-nonsense attitude to answering strategic posts to my attitude to playing poker.
Cheers, fellas! You're both on the right line, bigtime!
Monk
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Statistics: Posted by Felonius_Monk — Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:01 pm
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Even though you said that you want to keep playing I would take some time off. Not a lot, just a couple of days of or a week. When I am running bad I start to expect to run bad and the smallest baby suck out will set me off. To some extent it sounds like that is happening to you. If I take a couple of days off the when I get back the sucks outs don’t phase me and I can start enjoying the game again.
Another thing that helps me is switching games esp. to a game that I am not as good at. When I do that I focus on improving me game instead of how much poker like to mess with your head. I just had an O8 session where I got stacked 4 times and was > 2/3 favorite on all the hands and in one case I had the guy drawing to runner runner. Since then I have been playing HE and have really been enjoying it. More importantly I am now looking forward to playing O8 again.
Statistics: Posted by GooperMC — Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:33 pm
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