Law of Attraction and Poker

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I've heard that some great poker players are very familiar with the law of attraction. Well, I also know thay good cards help you being good at poker.
So what do you think? Do you use it for having the above average "luck'"? Or have you heard about someone similar?

For my part I use the law of Attraction personally. It's great to deserve and get what I deeply want.
 
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it seems to me that the law of attraction works i keep thinking i am going to get unlucky and i get unlucky, so it appears that way and then I am doing everything right and yet some idiot who has no clue and plays terribly sucks out on me again and again and again.

then I look at my results and with a large sample size having a positive roi of 7% in heads up hypers, I am not so sure. maybe it just seems that way because I am a negative person but I still win at poker in the long run.

the idea that you can change life to be the way you want it to, just by thinking is scary to some and attractive to others fortunately or unfortunately depending who you ask, life just is not that simple.

There is some merit to the idea that your thoughts affect your behavior choices and actions, and to that extent there may well be something to the law of attraction.

However I do not think it works on any psudo psychic quantum nonsense.

If you really think your going to become a poker millionaire and match the likes of Daniel Neg just by positive thinking alone you are in for a rude awakening.
 
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Of course I don't mean it in a way of just using the law of attraction and nothing else. But I think it helps.
I mean who doesn't know the situation of making a ridiculous call and win it just because of your gut feeling? Just watched a Video on YouTube where sb. lay down Aces in preflop and his opponent flops quads. If you are pretty rational I don't think there is a good explanation for this since the math is saying you have pretty good chances to win a pot with AA.
And in some way is the gut feeling (like feeling the future) connected to the law of attraction. One of them is just a bit advanced and because of that many ppl are not able to use it, or even to accept it.

I mean I can only speak for myself, but you said life isn't that simple. In my opinion it is! 1st I have me build a nice life with the simple law of attraction, and 2nd if you start saying life isn't that simple, it really isn't that simple. At least for you.
 
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Laying down Aces

I have laid down aces 7-8 times and it has been the correct call at least 3 of those times. The time to use this strategy is when you are not the short stack and are within 1 or 2 spots of the bubble. I have had my aces cracked a few times after pushing while being within the money and ending up missing the money. What do you think ?
 
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Baloney, the cards are drawn from a random card generator and all is statistically balanced in the long run.
Your skills in using your position and the cards drawn is another matter that needs experience and attitude, no much luck involved. :call:
 
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I never heard of this poker attraction law
 
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You can not control your luck. It just seems that way at times, but it is completely a falsehood and dont get wrapped up into it. Sure that way of thinking is healthy, but it will not make anything different in your luck.

Are some people luckier than others, yes, but not by anything they do, it is pre-written.

Sorry if this is not what you want to hear.
 
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Of course I don't mean it in a way of just using the law of attraction and nothing else. But I think it helps.
I mean who doesn't know the situation of making a ridiculous call and win it just because of your gut feeling? Just watched a Video on YouTube where sb. lay down Aces in preflop and his opponent flops quads. If you are pretty rational I don't think there is a good explanation for this since the math is saying you have pretty good chances to win a pot with AA.
And in some way is the gut feeling (like feeling the future) connected to the law of attraction. One of them is just a bit advanced and because of that many ppl are not able to use it, or even to accept it.

I mean I can only speak for myself, but you said life isn't that simple. In my opinion it is! 1st I have me build a nice life with the simple law of attraction, and 2nd if you start saying life isn't that simple, it really isn't that simple. At least for you.

what you are referring to is psychic phenomenon, I am by no means implying psychic powers are actually possible, but rather if what your saying actually worked this is what it would be.

I think many people have been there before you think of a person and the phone rings and its them, scary huh?

you might have a dream then it happens spooky its a psychic vision. what these people don't realize is the odds of such things. how often do you think of people? of all those times you were thinking of a person how often did the phone go and it be them? not often but you do not think hey I thought about bob and then there no phone call from bob. you don't register that and you get on. but you only notice on the very rare occasions the two coincide.

mathematically speaking it is a high probability with all the people you think of that at some point the small chance of a phone call coinciding has to happen at some point.


we have lots of dreams many we forget, if one actually happens which by the math is likely to match closely at some point to future events, we notice it and think its special but we soon forget most dreams.

Though I still have not forgotten the dream I had in middle school where we were trapped on an island with a crazy chef who as killing children and making burgers and steaks out of them, yeah the girls kept asking me to stop telling them about that dream.

seriously though Ive been there and seen the tricks the mind can play and thought about the math.

more directly to poker, not necessarily psychic but whilst most would be embarrassed to admit this there have been times when I have seriously questioned if the poker sites are rigged.

it seems every time I get in dominant they suck out, etc etc. But then why do I win at the rate I do? I have never gone through the statistics of bad beats etc statistically I have looked for potential leeks but if there is a rig i cant change that. thing is if I got screwed as much as I did there is no way I would have such a high win rate.

little tip game selection its massive i have come across regs that sit me (I play heads up sngs) and i look at there sharkscope and there not that much worse then me some are even better but they have a much smaller roi due to just sitting anyone instead of only sitting bad players. any heads up sng player not using sharkscope is just leaking money.

when you play hands and think they are going to lose you only identify the hands that do lose not the ones that win you forget about those. when you get a feeling that 57 suited is going to hit and you flop a straight flush you will never forget it. however you will soon forget the feeling you had for every time speculative hands missed entirely.

really follow some sceptic blogs it breaks these things down really well, odds are that everyone will have some spectacular series of coincidence in there life for better or worse, just simply because there are to many chances for this.

if you really had psychic powers something which makes no logical sense to me, then using it for poker is a massive waste of time, simply turn to spread betting, and you could turn a few hundred into a few billion literally within a month!!!!!

the reason I would not recommend this is because you would probably go broke very rapidly. why are all "psychics" working for £30 an hour or however much they charge (it varies) when they could make a killing on the stock market. because they care and want to help? yeah thats the usual line I think a few billion invested in the right charities/schemes could do a lot of good for many poverty stricken people in the world.

a lot more then listening to some poor love struck guy/girl who cannot get over there ex when they really should., who is just going through the natural grieving process and would likely have forgotten who evers name in 2 years.

its all nonsense psychic is just something for the desperate the gullible and to line the pockets of con artists.

many times I am sitting there with AA or KK and think **** here we go again, and yes it happens more then I like but I know the odds are on my side and stick it in. this is how you become a profitable player. play right and you will get screwed again and again and again, but when you look at your balance most of the time you will see it is growing.
 
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happy and unhappy is in equilibrium, but may not be reflected only in money, this may be manifested in health, in private life, at work ...
 
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happy and unhappy is in equilibrium, but may not be reflected only in money, this may be manifested in health, in private life, at work ...

well this whole money does not buy happiness thing is a bit misleading.

sure you can be very happy without much money and very miserable with lots of it.

However money buys a lot of things that add to happiness and well being, and eliminates many of the stresses in life.

if your alluring to the part of the secret where it states to be thankfull for what you have and always act grateful, well its just another brainwashing thing where in the end you convince yourself you always had what you wanted anyway.

I guess sometimes you can choose to be happy, or just be happier by having a more positive outlook, but that does not mean actually getting more.

yes there is more to life then money but for most people money is usually a big part of there life.

girls are excellent at spin and manipulation but people can work stuff out for themselves.

If put on a dating profile that I work as a kitchen porter or packer, do you think it would get anywhere near as much attention if I put I work as a doctor or Lawyer?

girls will spin it and say but doctor or lawyer is more interesting? really you know most of the time they dont show up to work at your office. its not like they are choosing a life style where they will be discussing the patient charts with you or the legal merits of a case. Or that they face passing you the dirty dishes to wash or if packer sweets to go in boxes etc.

no its that they look at the life style you can provide them and nice restaurants house holidays and clothes is more attractive then min wage living in a rented property watching your back every time you walk down the street.

despite the fact I have often been labelled as sexist, I dont actually condemn the female desires. its perfectly biologically natural. many creatures seek partners based on what they can provide.

money increases the amount of female attention you will get as well as the quality. sure you can get a great girl when your earning minimum wage just like you can hit a straight flush with 74 suited, but I know which one gives the better odds.

money dictates whether you have to put up with abuse 5 days a week or can pack the job in and say f u.

money dictates whether you have to put up with a crappy car with uncomfortable seats or nice leather and something you can be proud of.

money dictates so many things in life I can go on and on.

is it possible to be happy without money absolutely. just like its possible to win with 74 suited.
 
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MONEY

I do not see what any of this has to do with poker or improving my game.:D
 
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Interesting post, Ive never heard of this, Ill have to google:)
 
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Yes, you are right. I havent thought about that when I've written my post. But I don't mean these types of situations. Thats a little to speculative, like that example with the telephone. And bob.
A suprise comes in when sth. unusual happens because of sth. unsual. Just like the preflop fold of AA. The odds of this are much lower, but on a course of a life it can happen. So thats also not what we search for.
But if the last point, sth. unusual because of sth. unusual happens frequently and the unsual things adding unusual high quality to the life, well, what are the odds of this? If you look at the whole pupulation of the earh big enough that it happened at least on time. (Btw. a few years ago I also was a big believer in obvious realistic and logical explanations)

When I trained me and my mind to those things like law of attraction the last point of the above happend, over and over the more I trained. Could also be a psychic phenomenon, so that I recognise these coincedents because I look out for them. But I don't think so, I feel it (like the guy in the video).

I know you can't belive me, like many ppl can't. I see it in the way you write about it. And it's not important, do what you want. I also had a great life before I started to use it, but not as great as now :rolleyes:

if you really had psychic powers something which makes no logical sense to me, then using it for poker is a massive waste of time, simply turn to spread betting, and you could turn a few hundred into a few billion literally within a month!!!!!

1st: I play poker because it's fun. It's a pretty math and logic based strategy game - exacly what I like :)

And yeah, I see you don't know anything about it. That's not the way it works. In fact, it's very similar to poker. You use the law of attraction in the long therm, not for every single card flip.

And you really need a super power mind to make a few billion within the month ;) But it's nothing you can not become when training for a life.

And remember: You don't only able to attract money, you can attract anything you can imagine, litteraly.

 
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Law of attraction ... not too sure.
Law of Averages ... Now that I can work with.
 
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The first time I hear about it,I think that all the pros who play imbt not bad skills and know all the situations on peret
 
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