Where I keep updating the summary/important bits as I read through the book. This is part 3
Essential Attitudes for Poker Success
- The hands that have a big emotilnal impact are those where you lose a big pot.
What happens When You Lose a Big Pot?
- How much losing a large pot affects you depends on several factors, including:
- How big the pot is
- How good you felt your chances were of winning the pot
- How you lost the pot
- How your session or recent results have been going
- Whether it is in a tournament or cash game
- How adequately bankrolled you are
- Your attitude
- When you look at all of these factors combined, you can see why it is difficult for many players to tune out their emotions completely.
- Fortunately, what is really important is not how much losing a big pot affects you emotionally, but how it affects your play.
- Beware of the following pitfalls that may snare a player who has recently lost a big pot:
- Berating your opponent
- playing the next hand badly
- Playing badly in similar situations in the future
- Tilt
Reaction to losing a Big Pot
- There are four stages in how players react to losing a big pot:
- Each stage represents a better reaction than the last.
- Players at later stages will be better able to rationalize the loss of a big pot and not allow it to affect their play.
Applying the Poker Mindset
- A player might read and understand the four stages to losing a pot, but still be unable to consistently react in a way congruent with stages three or four. There are two main reasons for this:
1. Emotions are difficult to control.
2. His entire approach to poker might be wrong and everything goes awry from there.
- Understanding the seven attitudes of the Poker Mindset can help correct your approach to poker, which in turn will help you to respond better when you lose a big pot.
- Whenever you lose a big pot, rather than focusing on your emotions, focus on these two important questions:
1. What does that hand teach me about my opponent's play?
2. Could I have played that hand better?
Bad Beats
- Broadly speaking, there are three ways you can lose a pot:
1. Bad Play
2. Bad Cards
3. Bad Beat
- The average player gets angrier over bad beats than over any other kidn of lost pot. Some of the reasons for this include:
- Entitlement - Players with a strong hand will often (subconsciously or otherwise) belive they are entitled to the pot.
- Rewarding Bad Play - For the myopic player, bad beats are seen to reward bad play.
- Directed Anger - Anger is often stronger when there is something for the anger to be directed at.
- Bad beats are the best way to lose a pot as you make money in the long term when your opponents make mistakes:
- Bad play makes you money in the long term
- Bad beats keep bad players playing
- Bad Beats encourage bad play by rewarding it
- A good player will take more bad beats than he gives
- Bad beats are an integral part of the game
- Bad beats are a good poker player's best friend!
Ever since I moved to Tromsø 1 and a half month ago me and Erik (Dokosoko) have been playing Squash 4 times a week or so, and I've never managed to win.
I been frustrated, annoyed, trying so hard to beat him, watched tips on youtube, searched on the web for how to take backhand strokes better. But nothing seemed to work. But I've slowly build up my insanely bad endurance, and now it's sicker than it's ever been!
So we played today as well, and it was siiiick!
I felt I played pretty good, first set I was up in the lead most of the match, at one point 7-3 in my favour, but he made a comeback and I managed to lose 9-7
Second set I managed to beat him 9-7 which felt great!!
Third set I was starting to get really exhausted, but something weird now, instead of just getting really exhausted and downhill from there, a short break, some water and I'm good to go again full energy woaah!! Third set was really close, it went to 10-8 to him, you have to win with 2 goals, so nearly had it, and I made him run a lot more than usual, and I was playing good, still struggling on my backhand left side serve catch!!
On the fourth set I was just happy I did so well, but didn't expect to win it, because by now I'm starting to get so exhausted, and he's in great shape and never get exhausted, but for some reason I just didn't get tired, and I managed to win 9-7!!
Siiiick a tie 2-2!!
We took one more set, at the start I felt i played beautifully, I took the lead 8-0!! Then I got really nervous, he played sick well, perfect serves, and I started to miss and do stupid mistakes, he caught up to me 8-8 and I got really disappointed!
I just thought, ah so what, I never done this well, I'll just try my best and he took it 9-8!! Or so I thought, for got you had to win with 2 goals, and then we had some amazing points come, and we played for nearly 20 minuts more. Just kept winning the serves of eachother (U have to win the serve before you can win a point).
I managed to catch up and take the lead 10-9, he caught up and it was 11-10 for him, then I managed to catch up to 12-11 and at the end probably one of the best action we had, were we switched the ball 20 times or something, having to really throw ourself to catch it, run at the back, then run forth, he won that cool one ,but missed serve, i won it back, and took it 13-11 xD
But didn't gloat or like "IN UR FACE" Just felt grateful, never had this good endurance, and he's so competitive, he'll give me hell next time, and it just felt great to finally win once xD
Yayy!!
Oh, didn't notice I wrote so much, sorry lol, no1's gonna bother to read this lol!! But felt good writing it anyway <3 xD
Friend linked me to this, watch the first video full before watching the second video:
All my thoughts voiced in the second video
Winter is about to hit down-under, going to head up for a week to Mt Hotham for snowboarding which should be awesome.
Oh and LP has been a great place to be for the last week with Rhaegar vs Rekrul turning into Rhaegar and co. vs the world and then some guy begging for help posting up his myspace and loco finding a semi naked picture of the guy posing in underwear (W T F?!)....
To those unfortunate enough to be down in the slumps or stressed out, smile ... it helps ...or don't and keep bringing smiles to everyone else's lives
I've finally managed to get the FTP client to look better than ass so I'm thinking of moving my roll over for the 100% deposit bonus and rakeback.
I'm sitting just over $500 which is pretty sweet :D
From what I understand I'd need 8300 FTPs to clear the bonus but I've also been told that the bonus is deducted from the calculation of rakeback until it's cleared. Can anyone explain to me how the calculation works as I'm a little fuzzy on it.
Also if anyone wants to let me know what NL25 is like on FTP vs Stars I'd appreciate it. Also funny pictures are welcome.
Yesterday I play roughly 110 sngs and was only up about $60 which isnt bad in my mind but i'm sure everyone on here will say its sucks but its not like I did it on purpose...
In my never ending quest to get rid of FT points, I've been playing a bunch of satellites. Jesus F Christ these things are soft. Whenever I play tournaments of any type I always say, "...if only we could get these people to play cash games", but wow, this player field is a whole new level of soft. Problem is, I know nothing about these. I recognize the glaring errors in bubble play and near-bubble play, but I can't honestly say I'm playing optimally myself. I've watched some videos, but I'd really like some written resources on topics such as: push/fold ranges on the bubble, how you should play pre bubble with big stacks, how you should play on the bubble with big stacks, etc, etc.
Any guidance whether it be from you guys or directing me somewhere else would be helpful. The math-ier the better.
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