[GuyOnTilt]

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for me, having a goal of winning such and such helps me play better and more focused.


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Hey Kit,

This might just be me not being able to be objective, but I feel that in poker (as well as others areas of life), wasting energy or thought over things completely out of my control is just that: a waste. I've spent a lot of effort into trying to rid my subconscious of these thoughts and I feel like it's made a very significant difference in my poker game, as well as being beneficial in other aspects of my life. It just creates a subtle and maybe not even conscious mindset that, imo, is detrimental to your current game and your ceiling.

There's probably also something to be said of the subconscious psychological effects of not completing a goal. I don't know a lot about this side of things, other than what I've picked up from golf, but the effects there are huge and I would tend to think the same would be true of poker to at least some extent.