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it is funny how a few sessions my "folded cards" would have hit the flop really hard time after time. but most times they don't AND then you often don't even notice that your two pairs would have lost anyway.
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This is what someone else said in another thread pertaining to another subject but it reminded me of something totally off topic from that thread so I decided to begin a new one.
One of the things that really helped me in my game was when I finally began to learn to forget what I had to, in the beginning learn to remember.
Whoa! WTF is she TALKING about? LOL.
Well, when I was brand new starting out, I don't htink I was all that different from a lot of people and it took a little while for me to remember my hole cards. I didn't want to be like some other folks I saw at the tables looking at them like seventeen hundred times or STARING at them for hours so I'd look at them and then start mentally repeating "red nines" or "One of hearts, King of Spaces" (which, by the way, was a tip I had gotten from someone on RGP several years ago-- "saying" in my head "ace" sounded like "eight" and once I substituted the word "one" for "ace" it helped me remember better when I had, for example an ace and an eight!).
Well, often, of course, I folded whatever it was I had been repeating in my head over and over. So when the flop came, I'b be thinking about what I "would" have made because the "memory" of those cards I had mucked was still fresh and I had been so anxiously trying to burn their images into my mental eyeballs.
Well, I don't know why it took me so frigging long to figure it out but eventually, somewhere along the way I did. And that's that, yeah, once I muck the frigging cards, FORGET ABOUT THEM.
There's no boredom at the tables for me that keeps me occupied with trying to think of how much more I would have had to pay to see that I would have sucked out on the river had I stayed in the hand, etc.
Because now what I am doing when I am NOT in the hand is paying attention to those who ARE in the hand. LOL! Like this should be so obvious but as I said, maybe I am just a slow learner.
Amazing how much better I am at trying to put people on hands when I am not in the hand myself! There are so many other things I can pay attention to!
So anyway, I thought about this and I thought that it was probably a really MAJOR thing that brought me to a tiny step better in my game. After I mastered the skill of being able to quickly glance just once at my cards and remember them I then learned to, having mucked the cards, totally forget them.
I was wondering if other new or even experienced players could describe something that seemed to be a big breakthrough for them during their early days of playing poker?