Tilting Mod
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 4,836
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There are players here and on other sites I visit that don't even import there hands into PT until the session is over. They have no clue if they are running good or bad, money wise. They reload with impunity, shut down bad tables with no concern that they have left money behind, and only concern themselves with their play. First tab they go into in PT is Game notes, and look over the big hands. They check some stats, and then if at all, they look at the session.
Daniel Negreanu wrote once in an article that when he played cash games for a living back in the day, before he was famous, he worked out his hourly rate over several months to be about $80/hr. He then stopped counting daily wins and losses. He would spend more time recording and memorizing hands during his play to analyze later. He knew that he made $80 an hour so why bother with the wins and losses, he wanted to focus on the game. Even on days where he would win several thousand dollars or win some of the biggest pots in his life, he never felt anything other than it was another great day playing poker for $80/hr. He realized that he could spend his mental energy on thinking about the play at the table and not "OMG, I'm down 3 buy ins"
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