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Tygran
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I've actually been trying this and it works.
Here's the basic premise. Good players are usually getting their money in with the best of it. Against weaker players, often if all the money goes in the only way the lesser player can win (hopefully not you!) is by sucking out.
All pretty straight forward so far right?
The goal in poker is not to win individual hands or even individual sessions. The goal is to consistently make better decisions and fewer mistakes than your opponents.
It therefore follows, that a hallmark of a good player is that they take far more bad beats than they give.
So, I've started keeping a little scorecard for my sessions... bad beats taken vs bad beats given. It turns it into a competition! The goal of course is not to suffer bad beats, the goal is to have the bad beats taken far outweigh the bad beats given. If at the end of the day you've taken ten and given one, you can feel good about the fact you played well. However if you've given 7 and taken 5... you probably should be reevaluating how you play.
Just an interesting way of turning it on it's head to make it work for you.
Here's the basic premise. Good players are usually getting their money in with the best of it. Against weaker players, often if all the money goes in the only way the lesser player can win (hopefully not you!) is by sucking out.
All pretty straight forward so far right?
The goal in poker is not to win individual hands or even individual sessions. The goal is to consistently make better decisions and fewer mistakes than your opponents.
It therefore follows, that a hallmark of a good player is that they take far more bad beats than they give.
So, I've started keeping a little scorecard for my sessions... bad beats taken vs bad beats given. It turns it into a competition! The goal of course is not to suffer bad beats, the goal is to have the bad beats taken far outweigh the bad beats given. If at the end of the day you've taken ten and given one, you can feel good about the fact you played well. However if you've given 7 and taken 5... you probably should be reevaluating how you play.
Just an interesting way of turning it on it's head to make it work for you.