After watching so many bad beats take away so much $$$ from me. I have found a simple cure to avoiding losing my mind. I simply do not watch the hands play out when the betting is over. When multitabling, it is easy to minimize the table and move on to something else, if in 5 seconds nothing happens you know you didnt go broke. Imagine you have AK and somebody else has QJ and your all in. If you minimized the screen, you could remember your a 2:1 favorite and you did your best. Instead you watched how you flopped a Ace and King and watched your opponent make some miracle runner runner flush on the river. This wears and tears on you, and now for the next 10 minutes you are trying hard to not lose your mind and your cash. Sometimes ill even remind myself after the betting how i played it right and got my money in the right spot whatever happens. This tactic is hard to accept even for myself because its human nature to want to see what happens, its part of what makes poker exciting. But in the end watching hands play out really doesnt gain you anything.
One hand at a time!
Tom
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I've found that if you have time to watch what cards come after you're all in, you need to add more tables. I know you've cut down on your tables to try and raise your ROI, so maybe that wouldnt work for you. If you use tableninja, you can assign a key to skip to the next table in line. This way you wont see what comes.
ReplyDeleteAs hard as it is to not watch the cards come out, I'm going for one better. I'm gonna try and go an entire day without looking at my cashier or HEM graph. Eventually I'd like to only look at the end of each week. but I'm gonna start with one day and go from there.
good points, i would love to just do tournaments without worrying where im at with wins and losses. its not easy since my mind works against me on that.
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