Full House
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norway
Posts: 668
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I still think my posts has something to do with self-evaluation. What does a winning player think about himself after several months of break even play way below EV?
1. He is cool about it and negative variance is something he expects.
2. He thinks less about himself. Maybe I was not so good after all?
3. He gets paranoid- because in his mind there is no possibilities he could ever break even after 20K hands. The GAME must be rigged.
I admit I am starting to fall into category 3. For a long stretch I was in category 1 blaming variance. Option 2 was never an option.
For me that was my minds answer to the results that was less than expected.
Since results does not reflect the quality of your game, I think self evalution is very difficult in poker. If we lose a 100 M dash we gladly accept defeat, but if we lose in poker we create excuses for ourselves.
My recent flagging of the possibility of poker being rigged, is probably my ego trying to defend the recent break even stretch I experienced.
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