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Building discipline is tricky. It helps to identify the reason you are losing patience before trying to fix the problem. If a hand is not good enough to go all in with, it also it is not good enough to limp with. Only play with hands that play well from your position at the table. If you are drawing dead (no good cards), use the time to study opponents and write down what they do in certain situations. If you find you cannot do this, then find something to distract yourself with between folding one hand and the next. Look at the hand, fold it, do your distraction. Don't sit there asking yourself why you didn't get a good hand, as this is destructive to the psych, and can set you up for tilt. Also don't panic over it. Anyone can draw dead for about 50 hands. Only one hand in 5 is playable and one in 5 out of those is winning hand. So, typically only 1 in about 25 is a good hand anyway. 50 dead hands in a row only means that you might get a 10 winning hand streak in the future if you are still in there for it.
playing a bad hand with tilt might look something like this: This hand is not good by itself, but I might flop something to go with it, so I'll limp. I got raised preflop, so I still might flop something, so I'll call. Flop comes out, I got 1 card that is helpful, someone bets, I call. Someone raises, I call. I could still improve on the turn and it's not that much to call. (now it seems I might get good pot odds here, but the only reason that is true is I have inflated the pot - I shouldn't have played the hand in the first place - that means I cannot rely on the pot odds here) Turn comes, gives me a fourth card for my hand, but still no made hand. some one bets, I raise because I could land a river that makes my hand. Someone re-raises, I jam to fold them. They call. river comes, I bust They show a flush. Tilt comes in when I feel I must have a good hand whenever it is possible that I could build one. Lesson learned - fold that hand every time. We get bad hands, don't let someone else profit from them.
playing a bad hand with tilt might look something like this: This hand is not good by itself, but I might flop something to go with it, so I'll limp. I got raised preflop, so I still might flop something, so I'll call. Flop comes out, I got 1 card that is helpful, someone bets, I call. Someone raises, I call. I could still improve on the turn and it's not that much to call. (now it seems I might get good pot odds here, but the only reason that is true is I have inflated the pot - I shouldn't have played the hand in the first place - that means I cannot rely on the pot odds here) Turn comes, gives me a fourth card for my hand, but still no made hand. some one bets, I raise because I could land a river that makes my hand. Someone re-raises, I jam to fold them. They call. river comes, I bust They show a flush. Tilt comes in when I feel I must have a good hand whenever it is possible that I could build one. Lesson learned - fold that hand every time. We get bad hands, don't let someone else profit from them.
