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[catfish_01]

Much love to your girlfriend! Her outside opinion sums up the essence of what seperates good poker play from bad poker play.

[kurto]

little question... what the heck is that self exclusion request? I have never seen that. Does that come up every time you have a losing night? I've never heard of that feature.

[and12006]

ama very good post I wish you posted this before, I was letting emotions take over all logic and was playing very very bad because of it. I see more then ever that we must not let emotions get in the way of poker logic/decisions.

[EMc]

Matrix,

Sticky this please. Im feeling lazy. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[SCBielski]

This is definately one of the better pooh-bah posts I've read, great post.

[ybother]

A++++ will read again

I have been thinking some of these things through as well and you are leaps ahead!

My small contribution, i have deliberately removed any record of my $$ for the session from both PAHUD and I do not open my full pt db to see amounts. I am really working hard at making the right decision, period. I posted some hands last night just to reinforce with the feed back that I got, that I am thinking and acting correctly. I see that reinforcement is the best reason to be part of this board. Yes it is annoying to see the ego and bravado that gets thrown around here about play from time to time (simple remedy is to go read what bbv thinks of uNL). Poker is sucha a great microcosm of life, many of the traits for running good at life = running good at poker.

A thought - imagine making hand posts require that the poster accurately describe his emotional state along with the reads on the villain???

[Gelford]

While I hated your Ama Theorem [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] .... This really is a very nice hand [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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[2mb]

Excellent post ama. Insta-Favorite Topic! (toggle)

[kaz2107]

sick post yo and obv sumtin i have been givin tremendous thought to tha last couple months (unfortunatly)

me and my gf often have those talks to. lol. it is nice to have a gf who is understanding but we do get into fights on occassion and it is often because i am in a foul mood due to poker [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] i need to pick it up in this regard for sure

losing 5 or 7 buy ins shouldnt b that big of a deal but of course when i drop 500 or 700 bucks i hate my life and am super pissed off and often question wut the hell i am doing and want to revamp my game (which often leads to many more problems and probably hurts my winrate to be switching things all the time)

i wouldnt mind hearing just things people r going to do to eliminate this thinking as best as possible and things people r going to do to help this situation. (gelford is probably the best person i kno who handles this [censored] tha best as he can easily drop a decent chunk of money and b as happy go lucky as ever)

[MFpoker]

great post, and I would like to remind people that playing high-stakes single player blackjack is not a good way to cool down after a string of bad beats.