Re: Confessions of a mid-stakes tilt monkey
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1 tabling ftw. seriously I play one or two tables and focus on EVERY SINGLE decision when I start feeling like this.
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I think this is important..
Less the 1 tabling part and more the thinking about EVERY decision. Pausing like 2-3 seconds before you complete an action. This may require playing less tables..
My tilted decisions have much more to do with impulsivity than lack of discipline to execute the action I think is best... so this is good advice
Then again sometimes my thought process is
"Damn... he would probabily have raised earlier with a pair, so he probabily ddidnt hit two pair.. This board is a little too scary for him to be donking with a riverd pair of 3s, so he probabily made a straight or has nothing... F*ckin lucky fish, this is so BS"
and I click raise... and he 3-bets.... and I call
IRL , I make impulsive/bad decisions under pressure, I have poor self discipline and get emotionally flustered when things dont go my way, quickly..
This obviously manifests itself in poker too.
They are all destructive traits, and ones I want to get under control for reasons other than poker.
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