Re: I always feel like crap after playing
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You're probably just being mentally drained. Do you do much 'brainwork' in your every day life? Stuff like accounting or computer work. If not your mind is probably just a bit soft or lazy and it'll adapt if you keep working it, just like a muscle. But hey, I'm no brain surgeon so maybe it's something else entirely.
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I actually have the opposite take on the brain is a muscle theory. I read one of those Dale Carnegie books that said your brain works efficient regardless of rest. What fatigues the sedentary worker isn't mental fatigue, but emotional fatigue, primarily stress. Stress wears out your body. You aren't stressed by the work you do, you're stressed out by the work you don't do and that piles up.
I find poker very stressful and the more I play the worse it gets. I haven't gotten into the habit of scheduling days of rest as a stress break.
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