Yesterday when playing I ran into this really fun player, vip 90 or so. And as often happens in Poker I didn't get the best of it. These 4 hands happened in close proximity, maybe 10-15 minuts apart.
But the cool thing was, after the first one, I laughed about it, and complimented the guy, not to be rude or obnoxious, but just to not get angry or play worse.
When it happened again I felt I calmed 8 seconds after it happened and it didn't affect me, was a great feeling. And had no resentment towards the opponent or anything. When it happened a few more times I started humming, singing to myself, writing sick notes on the guy, and I felt I had humongous edge, I also got this symmetry going, so he didn't want to play big pots with any of the other regulars. I doubled him up from 5e to 98 at one point, but ended up winning back like 70e of it because of the way I handled it.
(Doubling him to that much is like almost 20 bi's for him, since he bought in for 5e, I think that's the right way to look at it, and if I don't tilt from that, I don't see what will make me tilt =])
Ok, sorry for the rant, just really happy about it and wanted to express myself.
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- Mindfulness is the oposite of mindlessness. Unfortunatly how most of us go about living our lives, puppets on a string, doing anything people want us to do.
- One of the most common misconception about the buda stuff is "you want to empty ur mind, get rid of the feeling" But it's the oposite, you observe your thoughts, you observe your feelings. Witnessing them.
- None of us are ever rarely a good witness.
"Mindlessness is our normal state of mind." (Our default operating system.)
"Mindfulness is intentional awareness."
"Mindfulness melts away anger" (If you get really angry, and you become aware, you tell yourself I am angry now, then it will go away.)
- Mindfulness is a tool which directly relate to how you play poker, will tilt less. And carries on into your regular life. (See it as a tilt reduction tool.)
Breathing
- This is the best tool there is for practicing mindfulness. The reason is, it's always with us, we're always breathing.
- The act of being mindful, is putting ur effort and ur mind to something which is happening right now. Mindfulwalking, standing, sitting, looking, listen, so forth.
(All ways you can look at mindfulness, but the one that trumphs them all, is breathing.)
To practice minful breathing, there is 2 main ways
* Counting you breath
1 in, 2 out, 3 in, 4 out, 5 in, 6 out...... (count to 10, then start again.)
* Following your breath
" Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in.
Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out."
- The only practice you'll ever need, if you want to train yourself to be mindful of your thoughts and your actions, and what's going on around you."
Benefits: Forcing your mind away from it's own wrenching, ongoing thinking.
- In the moment you gain the benefit of not being consumed by your thoughts
- And when you do do it, you can't help but notice, that you are consumed by ur thoughts
- Take the training wheels off, and count when you breath out, in then out and two on the second exhale.
"And when you lose count, that's fine. It's like, the whole point. That we can't hold the count is a symptom of an affliction that counting cures.
Breath > Body calms mind > Mind calms body
(Like a circle of effects.)
"The breath is the link between the mind and the body."
- If you can do this at peak agitation, there's tremendous benefits
"The moments when you're most agitated are exactly those moments when you're most lost in your thoughts."
- The more practice you do, the better you get at it. Increase the % of mindful breaths in your life.
* The intense way of doing this is Meditation.
* The closest synonom in the English language is Concentration.
(Bringing your mind to focus, listening to stuff, great skills for poker.)
Poker is so distracting, we're constantly being dragged into the past, thinking of the future, noise, anxiety, so forth generated in your mind.
- Very smart to practice them in your life, then drag them into poker, or vice verca.
The four postures
We are always doing one of four things in life
* Laying down
* Walking
* Sitting
* Standing
What's so awesome bout this is, if our objective is to put more mindfulness in our life. All we have to do it put more of it into when we're doing one of the four things.
Something to try: Lay down on ur bed, have ur legs straight, arms on ur side, just do some breathing, a few breaths. Even if your tired, laying there in bed, the act of focusing, can wake you up, and you'll become more vitalized.
- The act of concentrating will give you more energy.
Walking: A practice to do at home, practice at going very slowly, and breath once every 2 or 3 steps, back and forth, concentrating on ur feet, on ur breathing. What happens is when ur doing other stuff, instead of ur mind going bzz, you'll do it other places, a casino, buying groceries.
(Maybe not smart doing this in public lol.)
Standing: Stand straight, mindful breathing, can do it anywhere.
Sitting (Biggest one of all, the posture we're in when we play poker):
*Will increase the winrate of ANY poker player*
- Posture, and there's breathing. Arrange your leg straight down, spine straight. Like a sphinx sitting. It's gonna be a huge improvement of not having good posture.
(Unrealistic sitting 1,5 hour in correct posture, but any amount of time is a huge improvement, just keep adding time, even if it's just 30 seconds.)
- Singletasking and online poker: Don't multi task when multi tabling, msn, phone, mail, looking at tv, so forth.
- Interessting thought: When someone calls you, and your playing poker, either stop playing take the phone, or don't answer. It's disrespectful not giving someone your whole attention.
"Play when you're playing."
Mindful listening
- When you're in a concentration, the other person starts talking, you concentrate on your breathing.
(What will happen the mind energy which would normally be thinking of, what am I gonna say next, yeah I have a story like that, yeah he's wrong. You'll be more likely to actually be hearing them, hearing what they are saying. And it's a beautiful thing when you can keep the conversation on the other person, but not be faking it, but actually interested. And that happens when your own thoughts arent stirred by what they say.)
"So easy to be consumed in your own reality all the time"
- The way to break that chain of churning thought is the tool of mindful breathing.
When to practice
- You can do it all the time
"Think of being agitated as an opportunity to practice not being agitated."
- Being bored is something that can be eliminated with mindful thinking, because your observering what's happening around you all the time, no matter what it is.
(The main thing about it, it takes time before you get the benefits.)
Shedding mental weight
- Understanding practicing will make you more thoughtful/tiltless, understanding, easier to enjoy moment to moment, you do actually have to do the work.
EDIT: lol, I just realised that I didn't cash out any money playing poker past 5+ months. I just play this game for entertainment and cool clothing/stuffed animals :D
Well, its still more than I ever got out of Starcraft (some lousy DVD's and a mouse mat when I won regional high school competition-.-)
and of course since i'm a moron who get driven by his own emotions sometime ._ . i crashed it at 140km/h(was on high way), the accident wasnt so bad tho
Only one person stopped to check up if i was alright after the crash... >_> thats actually sick to realize how no one care about anyone else than themselves
The car ended up with 16000+ $ Damage on it, so it's totalled -___ - so now the question: Should i get another RX-8? or go with something else
just looking into suggestion for cars right now as ill have to buy a new one this week and im really not sure if i want another one RX-8(i had a lot of pleasure driving it tho)
For now i'm really looking into a car that will look decent.. that i will have no mechanical problems in a short future.
PS; whats ur favorite car color? (i can't find anything else than light gray and red RX-8 /cry)
How to not get scammed on paypal?by blackjacki2, January 07
I hear that you should never do a transfer with someone that wants to give you paypal money in exchange for poker money. Can someone tell me how this scam works and if it can ever be done safely? There has to be some time frame that I can have the money for that eliminates the possibility of getting it back? Anyway I need to make such a trade and I need advice on how to not get scammed because it's been said constantly on this board not to deal with paypal.
can't believe I didn't just not play the past 2 days instead of playing and tilting so much... its just that I only have until the 13th to grind seriously and then i may not even be able to play for a whole month.. so wtf.. I let myself play..and i lose another 10 bi
i erased the spoiler just cuz I'm feeling much better now
I was at this FR table and everyone left but one guy so I'm like oh kay, some HU would be fun.
the guy proceeds to fold his SB over n over, then i figured out he folds his BB to any small raise,
any only raises with QQ++ or AK or something like that. been watching the 2 table he/she/it's at and been doing the same thing
name : xritax at .02/.05 lol
was taking like 3 bi's off the thing till the table filled up
So there's almost a half foot of snow on the ground and it keeps coming over here in the Chicagoland area. I skipped class this morning since I have to drive about a half hour in a mustang to get there and there was basically no way I was going to do that, and I have the day off of work...so it's time for the first 12 hour grind session I've had since I started school since I basically am out of the house from 7-7 every day because of work and school.
After running really bad in SNGs I've grown pretty frustrated and am going to revise my January goal to win 40 in cash games at 2/5. I still think that's a pretty modest goal, and I fully intend on breaking through it. I'll probably update tonight with how my session goes...I'm only 1tabling right now because my br is so short that I can't really afford to sit in more than one. I've doubled up once already and hopefully I can keep the trend of going up instead of losing big hands
Played 8.6k hands today, the most I've done in a day. 12tabled NL5 for the first 3.7k hands then 20tabled whilst watching the MSL ro8. Then moved onto 9tabling NL10. Scored another winning session at NL10. Hopefully I can keep this up. BR finally over $500 as well.
During the past few days I've been working on my play, using the tips I received from my previous blog. My red line these days arn't as crap as before, so thats good. I've begun to see how important representing hands are, and how at times, it is really simple to see bluffs and make bluffs. Been stealing blinds alot more; its somewhere around 25%. I'm still having problems finding spots to 3bet
wanted to ask someone who plays WoW and is known member here -
I need to purchaes WoTLK and pay subscription for upcoming month, but my credit card is not available atm, so want to ask if there is someone who could purchase me this, i will send money on Stars... i will send first obv
One of my other ex team mates sent me some of our screenshots, posting them here again. Theres a ton more stuff in the blog below this if you like this sorta stuff. This is just a continuation.
So 2009 was a very lucky year for me, but not a very encouraging one.
Cash games I made ~$50k less than last year and played around 80k less hands, but ran like God.
However I probably shipped $30-$40k luckboxing the few tournies I played. Swapping 20% with Wobbly in WSOP ME also helped me break even for the Vegas trip.
I'm a student from Belgium, Flanders to be more specific. Been playing on and off for 2.5 years now.
About a year ago poker started to become very boring and frustrating because I didn't move up as fast as I wanted (went from 100nl to 2knl in 8 months). So I just quit. Then after a while I realised doing nothing is even worse then playing poker. But I needed motivation to start playing again so I thought I'd restart at the lower stakes and I also wanted to learn omaha.
Nowadays poker is fun again, and learning omaha is also very exciting (still a big fish at it tho).
My biggest interests in life are psychology, philosophy and politics.
My main concern is my success rate with Top Pair Weak Kicker or worse. I am assuming its J kicker and Lower.
What does this mean? Im guessing its a major leak? What can I do to fix it...in terms of my preflop actions and how I approach value betting marginal hands.
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