Confidence Restored
After yesterday’s unpleasantness I decided to reevaluate my approach to poker.
Not my approach to how I play AJ after a raise or when to limp with aces, but what I will call my lifestyle approach to poker. Up until yesterday I had been sleeping in real late, rarely showering or eating, and generally living pretty unhealthily (is that a word?).
I decided that if poker is going to be my “job” I should treat it as such. I have to be in a healthy state of mind as well as body. I decided I will shower and eat before every session. I will also devote my entire psyche to the game at hand, with no alt-tabbed news or “entertainment” web pages open. Seems pretty simple but I distinctly remember when I was getting spanked over and over again at the tables yesterday that I almost didn’t care. I was completely immersed in some webpage, was hungry and didn’t feel all that well. I concluded this morning that this attributed to my losses and will not allow such externalities to continue to interfere.
Today, I got up at a reasonable hour, showered, had breakfast and spent an hour reading some blogs and other pages before sitting down to the tables. After 90 minutes I was up $200 and feeling real good.
A good lesson learned.
Not my approach to how I play AJ after a raise or when to limp with aces, but what I will call my lifestyle approach to poker. Up until yesterday I had been sleeping in real late, rarely showering or eating, and generally living pretty unhealthily (is that a word?).
I decided that if poker is going to be my “job” I should treat it as such. I have to be in a healthy state of mind as well as body. I decided I will shower and eat before every session. I will also devote my entire psyche to the game at hand, with no alt-tabbed news or “entertainment” web pages open. Seems pretty simple but I distinctly remember when I was getting spanked over and over again at the tables yesterday that I almost didn’t care. I was completely immersed in some webpage, was hungry and didn’t feel all that well. I concluded this morning that this attributed to my losses and will not allow such externalities to continue to interfere.
Today, I got up at a reasonable hour, showered, had breakfast and spent an hour reading some blogs and other pages before sitting down to the tables. After 90 minutes I was up $200 and feeling real good.
A good lesson learned.
posted by RikkiDee at 12:31 PM
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