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Old 07-22-2007, 04:08 AM
king of the deck king of the deck is offline
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Default the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

hopefully this is the right forum for this.

OK i have been playing tons of poker for about 3-4 years. mostly hold em, mostly no limit, never anything higher than 400 nlhe on a regular basis. for the most part, 6 handed.

in the last 6 months or so i feel like my no limit game has gotten exponentially better. as time goes on i start to get more and more aware of something i call the "poker third eye" basically a very keen awareness of where i stand in a hand, but more importantly where other player(s) stand. obviously i can really execute some great poker when i am feeling this.

unfortnately this does not come to me every day i need it. id say more than half the days, i can get in this zone, and fairly quickly. some days i cant at all, and my games suffer as a result. some days, i get in this third eye zone, and eventually slip out of it, and my game suffers.

now heres the problem - in a nutshell.
even when i am pretty sure i do not have this third eye working, i am too stubborn to quit and go watch tv, or do whatever, go for a jog, read a book. i think part of it is pride. another part of it is i am a greedy bastard and i want to spend every free moment i have accumulating wealth. can anyone relate to this inability to walk, even when you know youre not playing at 100%?

i figure this is probably something i will grow out of, just as i grew out of going on tilt over dumb stuff like bad beats. but in the meantime, it still sucks a lot and i would like to hear what anyone has to say on this. thanks!
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:11 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

cliffnotes:

op is a degen who discovered variance
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:12 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

tilting is bad, m'kay?
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:13 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

I wish I would've just read the cliffnotes b4 reading this post.

Wasting a minute of my life [x]
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:18 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

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cliffnotes:

op is a degen who discovered variance

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3-4 yrs of constant nl.. JUST discovered variance?
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:20 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

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cliffnotes:

op is a degen who discovered variance

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3-4 yrs of constant nl.. JUST discovered variance?

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apparently
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:22 AM
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watch it i might go on tilt
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Old 07-22-2007, 04:33 AM
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Default Re: the poker third eye. and good days, bad days.

Eat more fruit.
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