Mind-limiting beliefs in poker
In order to take control of the stories we tell ourselves, we have to adopt certain mental beliefs. This would simply be a perspective or an interpretation through which to...
In order to take control of the stories we tell ourselves, we have to adopt certain mental beliefs. This would simply be a perspective or an interpretation through which to...
A similar analogy, shifting the focus from the result to the process, can be applied to the EV graph, where your win and all-in EV lines diverge from each other. In...
Well, how do you get out of this cycle of losses, tilts and more losses if you have already fallen into "poker hell"? Sure, it's good to start playing, but...
There are two inevitabilities in poker: downswings and taxes. The best poker players are so successful and brilliant because they have gone deeper through downswings than anyone else. Statistically...
An emotional response is always there for a reason, it's just a consequence of the structure that lies beneath it. To miss the emotional response as some random flash is...
The very word evokes memories. Scraped walls, smashed keyboards, marathon sessions. The flat, painful feeling at 5am, staring at the bedroom ceiling, having scraped half your bankroll,...
An emotional response such as tilt is not just a random flash. Such a response does not arise without reason. After all, players tilt in different ways, have different thresholds to tilt,...
Even if you think this is very true, your intuition may insist that there is a deep divide between emotion and rationality. You may think, "Of course I...
What are our values? By ethical standards, we value moral equality. In cooking, we value taste. And in poker, we should value money most of all, because that's all we're trying to do...
The debate on control is as old as the world. But most of the time, we don't have as much control as we tend to believe we do. This is not the most pleasant news, even for the most...