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5.3.1 Failure to see the good variation
Players, especially when under emotional pressure, tend to remember their failures more than their successes. Rarely do you hear such players talk about how they suckoutino against another player, but the stories of what happened to themselves bad beatus are unavoidable. A greater focus on failure creates a very distorted perspective, because what you pay more attention to is what you know more about. It could be said that we are more adept at spotting failures and completely unable to see when we succeed.
This exclusive focus on failures distorts your perspective greatly, and when you are depressed by a bad period, failures are the only thing you remember. So the statement "I fail all the time" starts to seem logical, because all you see around you are failures. At that time, you actually think that you never have success, which is mainly because you are unable to notice it.
5.3.2 More than due
When you think that luck is the result of your good play and/or you think that your mistakes are the result of bad luck, you are wrong, and this wrong view distorts the scales of poker fairness, making it appear that the variation is unfair to you when it is not. This idea can be illustrated as follows:
The first picture shows your balanced and neutral approach to variation. You know your own skills and those of your opponents, as well as the mistakes they make. The second picture illustrates how injustices develop Bridge. First of all, if success is really due to luck, but you think it is due to your skills, then some of the luck is taken off the scales. Secondly, if your mistakes are the cause of the defeat, but you think it is due to bad luck, then part of the bad luck is added to the scales. By associating success with your skills and mistakes with failure, you are assuming that the odds are stacked against you. In both cases, the result is that failure happens more often, and you tiltinate thinking that poker is unfair, when in reality you're the one who's making a fool of yourself.
Now consider what happens when such a distorted view persists for a long time. After all, thinking that you are under a spell or that a variation is unfair can be very logical, since a large proportion of wins are attributed to skill and losses to bad luck. In a sense, all of this can be attributed to elementary mathematical problems, but because each factor is so difficult to measure precisely, it is far from elementary. For this reason, a better ability to assess objectively your own play and that of your opponent, as well as the variation, allows you to create an advantage in poker.
Sometimes it is really hard to recognise success, but as I said before, this is partly because we are not inclined to associate our achievements with success and we are more adept at noticing our failures. This begs the question, why do we try to attribute success to skill rather than to luck? It is because you want to believe that you are as good as you think you are, despite the fact that perhaps you are not. This is a confidence problem, and your subconscious knows that this pseudo-confidence is not stable. Therefore, during periods of failure, you doubt your game, you lose confidence and you may lose motivation. More on this in Chapter 8.
Here are some suggestions to help redress the balance of your beliefs about what is right:
In the short term: Improve your ability to spot successes and your mistakes. This will help balance your approach to variation. Also refer to the section on "Developing Stable Confidence" to improve your recognition (of variation, your own ability and that of your opponents).
In the long term: Look back at your poker career, maybe even your personal life (sports, business) and identify those successes that you have undeservedly attributed to your skills. Also think about the times when you thought you were unlucky but actually made mistakes yourself. Correcting a bad, biased attitude becomes much easier when you have sorted out past misunderstandings. You can't change past events, but changing your attitude towards them can give you a more objective view of the present.
LOGIC IS INSERTED: POKER DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOUR VIEWS ON JUSTICE.
5.3. Injustices Bridge the options on offer
Seeking positive opportunities, all types in bridgescan make you psychologically stronger. So what are the possibilities offered by this bridge of injustice?
- Dealing better with failure gives you an advantage over your opponent, and sets an example of what you can learn tomorrow. When you have an example, you can start learning what will help you improve your game and give you an advantage over your opponents while they are trying to cope with injustice Bridge.
- How you deal with failure shows how you will deal with success. Improved deep-seated injustices Bridge Understanding the causes will improve your ability to cope with a successful period. Being able to maintain a balanced approach to variation is very important in poker. Since the poker boom started by Chris Moneymaker, there have been many poker players who have won the poker lottery but have not been able to handle it. This is very similar to people who win the real lottery but then go bankrupt very quickly.
5.3.4 Wanting poker to be more than it is
Trying to find out why failures trigger players bridge, Most players admit that they wish poker wasn't so heavily influenced by variation. Logically, they realise that variation is a big part of what makes poker profitable, but it is not enough. There have been cases where well-known players have tried to create versions of poker with little or no variation. These attempts have failed because variation is the key to making poker profitable and the game so compelling.
The old adage "Be careful what you wish for" is true here. Think what would happen if this wish came true and the short-term results of 100% were directly dependent on the player's skills? Weak poker players would disappear, because poker is a war of both real and perceived skill. Ultimately, poker would become like chess.
Assuming that all this is true (and most of you know it is), what is the point of wishing that variation in poker didn't have such an impact? That's the same as saying: "I can't deal with the emotions caused by variation". If variation didn't cause Bridge, you would love its existence.
Since you can't control the variation, the only possible solution is:
- Understand it better;
- Improve your emotional reactions to it.
A better attitude towards variation means acceptance. Acceptance comes naturally when you understand why you really don't want variation to disappear in poker.
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