Poker Psychology

I see several people still not including psychology in poker.
Something necessary for the evolution of your game (in a matter of Mindset) and evolution as a person.
Many still blame several situations for losing X or Y hands and this leads to several critical situations, where they hurt other games and sometimes even contact with the people around them.
Then something necessary to study besides strategy is psychology, with it you will sustain the bad beats of 3 outs on the river and face the other tables naturally. Obviously there will be a quick escape, but with time you learn to control and lasts for seconds and you get back in control.
That way you will be less exploited because of your emotional state.


And you, what do you think of this?
Do you study it?

Psychological stability is an important quality of the poker player.

I know players who play by the book. They follow all the rules. But i dont consider them good. You need to adapt to certain situation and your opponents at the time and adjust your game to them.

I agree with you!
Psychological component - Discipline ... make a person much smarter

I think you need more math on the online poker and more pshichologi on live table poker

I agree with you but this apply to anything in life not just in poker. So If you get better at this aspect it it will improve you overall not just while playing

Iryna Stryzheuskaya said:

Psychological stability is an important quality of the poker player.

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Not just in Poker, but in life.
Think about it.

Mikeloti13 said:

I know players who play by the book. They follow all the rules. But i dont consider them good. You need to adapt to certain situation and your opponents at the time and adjust your game to them.

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Exactly, after this level you need to train your mind. That is, the Pisicologico is the highest level. There is no point in having ability without self control.

schtiuky said:

I think you need more math on the online poker and more pshichologi on live table poker

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Math is the basis of Poker (Live or Online) and psychology is your support followed by your strategy. If you take a bad rap on the river with only 1 out for the villain, you will surely bow if you do not have your mindset properly set up.
That is, this will cause losses and more losses, because it would be impossible to hit the Nuts in each hand, so there would be a bad hit.


So it is critical to study the psychology of the game in order to avoid the maximum of staying or decreasing the downswing.

Gohaku94 said:

I agree with you but this apply to anything in life not just in poker. So If you get better at this aspect it it will improve you overall not just while playing

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Exactly, it's a functional quality.

exabit said:

I have to improve psychologically if not, I will not evolve in poker

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Knowing what needs improvement is already a breakthrough. Studying you find progress.


I do not know what your case is, but most people will not accept Bad Beat, so a good start where I always point out is to read books that deal with self-control. I think dominating this item is a great start.

Phycological online you need less. More math and strategy. On live table phycological becames more important. You can read some people, try to find their teels and get advantage on it.

natasha555 said:

successful players have probably systems and techniques how to control their game and do not slide into tilt. there is also a book of mind play.

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Exactly, all Pro studies this deeply.

oneloy said:

Psychology in poker is a very valuable thing !!! I'm a fool, when I lose, I already broke my bookcase twice ... I do not know what will help me. I need a good straitjacket, as well as a strong motivation ....Can someone tell me?
Thank you)​

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Study thorough self-control. This helped me with tilt.


Practice meditation, this will help keep calm.


30 minutes to start day and you will see the difference.

Max Diver said:

Phycological online you need less. More math and strategy. On live table phycological becames more important. You can read some people, try to find their teels and get advantage on it.

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I understand your point of view.
But when you start applying volume to your game, thing of 8+ tables will see that feeling a bad beat would have affected your game dramatically, soon in your profit.
So it is extremely necessary to study psychology.

Psychology of poker knows such a definition as tilt, other words, it is the "clouding of the mind," which is based solely on faith in one's own luck.
Because of the overabundance of unrest, there is a risk of doing wrong loser actions.
In order to accurately predict their actions, it is important to understand why:
the enemy made a similar bet;
answered a certain cash contribution;
discarded cards.

Dr. Robert cialdini has some good books on psychology not necessarily all relevant to poker but some of it is, and it's a good read none the less

I agree with you, a few days ago a player started insulting only because he had lost a lot of money because he got a bad letter to the river and he lost it, something that was expected for me, but he took it as a scam and became aggressive

vitalicharniak said:

Psychology of poker knows such a definition as tilt, other words, it is the "clouding of the mind," which is based solely on faith in one's own luck.
Because of the overabundance of unrest, there is a risk of doing wrong loser actions.
In order to accurately predict their actions, it is important to understand why:
the enemy made a similar bet;
answered a certain cash contribution;
discarded cards.

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Remembering that the Psychology of Poker also includes Bad Beat.
That is, when you make a fine move, and "unlucky" loses.

callmematt93 said:

Dr. Robert cialdini has some good books on psychology not necessarily all relevant to poker but some of it is, and it's a good read none the less

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I do not know, but I'll look for it. Thanks for the tip.