Too busy winning to notice I'm losing

[kevkev60614]

I played in a limit hand last week where I limped with 88 and the flop came JJ8. When I'm in a ridiculously rare situation like this, my mind switches to extraction mode. In fact, I sometimes become so focused on extracting every possible penny that I fail to notice the river pair the turn. It's as if I get into my head that I have the nuts and nothing can change it.

Fortunately the donks in Vegas didn't raise the river so my blindness only cost me one big bet. But I didn't realize I'd lost until the dealer started shipping it and I made an ass out of myself. It's a limit example but I do sometimes go broke in STTs doing the same thing.

I think that the only thing I can do is slow down and pay more attention. I'm really just wondering whether this happens to anyone else, and what do you do if it does?

[pineapple888]

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I played in a limit hand last week where I limped with 88 and the flop came JJ8. When I'm in a ridiculously rare situation like this, my mind switches to extraction mode. In fact, I sometimes become so focused on extracting every possible penny that I fail to notice the river pair the turn. It's as if I get into my head that I have the nuts and nothing can change it.

Fortunately the donks in Vegas didn't raise the river so my blindness only cost me one big bet. But I didn't realize I'd lost until the dealer started shipping it and I made an ass out of myself. It's a limit example but I do sometimes go broke in STTs doing the same thing.

I think that the only thing I can do is slow down and pay more attention. I'm really just wondering whether this happens to anyone else, and what do you do if it does?

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Yes, this was the last board reading hand skill I mastered, and I still misread it occasionally.

The only solution is EVERY TIME a card makes pairs/trips/quads on the board, take a second or two to figure out the EXACT hand you have (and whether it's likely to be good, of course).