Lheticus
Legend
Silver Level
As I'm sure is obvious, playing poker in any situation against different overall table skill levels requires different mentalities. Playing in a micro-stakes table where the play is often formulaic or a freeroll where recklessness is practically required to succeed requires more than a different gear than playing in a tournament with buy in reaching multiple hundreds of dollars or a cash game where 3 digits can change hands in any pot--it requires an entirely different poker attitude.
I have what appears to be a rather uncommon problem in that I am mostly unable to participate in games with proper stakes, so I'm surrounded virtually whenever I play by the former case. This means that in the rare instances I can play in something proper, like our freerolls, league, what have you, I have a lot of difficulty adjusting. Does anyone know any mental tricks I can use to help establish a habit of being able to shift my mentality when needed for something like this?
I have what appears to be a rather uncommon problem in that I am mostly unable to participate in games with proper stakes, so I'm surrounded virtually whenever I play by the former case. This means that in the rare instances I can play in something proper, like our freerolls, league, what have you, I have a lot of difficulty adjusting. Does anyone know any mental tricks I can use to help establish a habit of being able to shift my mentality when needed for something like this?