Dealing with a downswing...

[Laetus]

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I really like the no complaining goal. I've tried to have this in poker and life lately. The idea being that sometimes i can't control the path or situation i'm in all i can do is to try and make the best of that situation.

That could mean i've got a huge hand in a likely bad situation after running bad or something serious has just gone wrong in life. So rather than making a bad play to prove to myself the situation sucked or to just sit and be bitter about the life situation now i don't let myself complain about the situation and just think and do what i can to make the outcome as best i can.

Another attitude goal that i've taken that has helped me is to always do what is best for yourself in the long term regardless of current mood. This one was adopted from poker to put into day to day life situation. Simple examples would being to lazy to go the gym or being to afraid to do something.

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That's very true. Good post.

To bad it's good damn hard to follow guidelines. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[john kane]

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do what is best for yourself in the long term regardless of current mood.

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good phrase, though so hard to stick to. whenever i get shitfaced i know the next day ill regret it, but i still do it.

[traz]

I'm in the midst of a small downswing, and i find it helps if I take a bit of time to work on aspects of my life other than poker. Moreso, when I neglect the other areas of my life (going to the gym, eating healthy, personal relationships), I find that downswings start to occur and I get into a rut, where i just try and grind myself out of a downswing and focus on nothing else...but then I end up digging a deeper whole.

So basically, I'm working on making sure I keep a balanced life, and I think that alone helps me prevent and deal with downswings. I really believe there is a causation effect there.

[JackAll]

I like the c/r in hand 2.
It's sweeeeeet *homer style drool*

[ddubois]

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Its an unorthodox play but my reasoning at the time was that he has better than one pair here almost never

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I don't understand. What do you think villain is doing with AJo/J8s-AJs/99-TT/sets on this flop and turn?

[LucidDream]

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Its an unorthodox play but my reasoning at the time was that he has better than one pair here almost never

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I don't understand. What do you think villain is doing with AJo/J8s-AJs/99-TT/sets on this flop and turn?

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look at stack sizes, he doesnt have 2pr or sets here really and most hands he has are weak enough that he will probably fold them tho he may elect to call and force him to follow up on the river.

i think i like a little bigger c/r tho.

[Lefort]

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nice read, brotha.

you might want to try coaching a cpl people..

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Done and done.

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[JackAll]

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Its an unorthodox play but my reasoning at the time was that he has better than one pair here almost never

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I don't understand. What do you think villain is doing with AJo/J8s-AJs/99-TT/sets on this flop and turn?

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AJo/J8s-AJs/99-TT

Folding a very high number of these if he is a thinking player and OP doesn't have a maniac image. Folding out better hands is a big part of poker against thinking players, and this is a beautiful spot for it.

sets

He doesn't have JJ. There is only one combo of 88 left in the deck. That leaves 4 combo's of hands that are sets, which means if we can c/r the turn here and make him fold his overwhelming percent of top pair hands which are ahead of us, this is very +EV.

[bigt439]

great post.

[nutsflopper]

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c/c is def better on hand 2 unless you're bluffing (which would be bad).

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Pretty sure he was trying to bluff him off a JT type hand, might be a bad assumption tho...?