Entries Tagged as 'Inner Game'
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From Monk:
How many times have you tried to explain to someone that poker is not just a game of chance? Can you show someone else how you understand a situation? And then show them how someone else sees the same thing, but differently? Now explain how that difference gives you an edge over them? [...]
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Tags: luck·woody allen
From Monk:
Poker has nothing to do with money.
Now you might think it does, but it can’t. The first thing I need to do before I sit down at the table is remove myself from the world of bills and burgers and new tires for my old saab. If I am still there I am [...]
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Tags: bankroll·matrix·money
From hdouble:
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
–William Shakespeare
The last couple months have been a tough grind as my compadres and I at one of the best online poker sites out there have been camping out at the office. It’s been a bit of [...]
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Tags: abdul jalib·bankroll·concentration·faith·izmet fekali·motivation
From HDouble:
The most important lesson I’ve learned in the past couple months is that the biggest difference between players at middle limits and above is the relationship between a poker player and his bankroll. While players often overvalue hands and have minor differences in skill, the biggest difference I see among [...]
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Tags: bankroll
Rest
When you’re winning just keep riding that winning wave. But if you start losing, stop and rest up. Use your time to do relaxing things like hitting your bed to take a power nap, watch some television, or get a snack. If you think of it like if you’re a computer, you’re “resetting yourself”. You [...]
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Tags: alcohol