Straight Flush
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Originally Posted by Robb
Second, a lot of us lack the "pro" mentality.
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That's fine too. What bothers me is people who continually jump around stakes and bitch about it later, or who stick to good bankroll guidelines and grind up a $50 deposit to $500 or so and then "take a shot" at 600nl and go busto in half an hour.
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Originally Posted by Robb
For an example of a "losing player's mentality", I told the wife this morning that "I won $73 last night." It's true, sort of. I ground out 1k hands of NL10 and was up 7 BI afterwards. But you know what? I really just won my typical 6 ptBB/100. And when I drop 3 BI in a session, I'm really just earning my typical 6 ptBB/100. Every hour I play, if I play optimally, I'm just earning my historic win rate / 100 hands. Hopefully, I'm doing slightly better if I'm learning to play better. But too many people focus on the $$/session and not how well they played.
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I couldn't agree more. This is something that probably every player who is serious about poker to any degree faces, and I think it's perfectly natural to feel this way at first since poker is very anti-intuitive in terms of results with respect to how well you play. It's just another one of those things you'll eventually adjust to.
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