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The Poker Mindset Part 3 |
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Mariuslol Norway. May 27 2009 15:44. Posts 4742 | | |
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:
1. Anger
2. Frustration
3. Acceptance
4. Indifference
- 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!
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ominous . May 27 2009 16:38. Posts 5 | | |
nicely done. I enjoy it. Bad beats are a good players best friend because the bad player is more likely to play bad hands more often b/c they've been rewarded a nice profit from it.
If your dog goes to the bathroom on your carpet, and you give it a treat, it's going to continue doing that b/c he's been rewarded. |
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Mariuslol Norway. May 27 2009 17:22. Posts 4742 | | |
Yeah, a good player always tries to get the money in when he thinks he's ahead, milking the fish, so bad beats doesn't happen very often to the fish compared to the good players. And when they get a bad beat, they will probably continue to play poorly, thus making good ppl win in the long term xD or something like that =p |
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Kilay Netherlands. May 27 2009 17:33. Posts 1960 | | |
Nice article, just what I needed after coolering off 3 buy-ins after taking a break off couple days for running bad. Always nice to know it just continues after you come back... |
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Chewits United Kingdom. May 27 2009 17:52. Posts 2539 | | |
I have this book ordered in the Post as we speak, because of these blog posts.
Cheers. Looking forward to reading it. |
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Yanchi . May 27 2009 18:33. Posts 9 | | |
I see now, thanks for explanation  |
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Mariuslol Norway. May 27 2009 19:28. Posts 4742 | | |
<3
Have read some more will update tomorrow afternoon for part 4 xD |
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