I really was struggling with poker and all off the badbeats that come along with it. But thanks to alot of reading i have come to some very important conclusions which i will try to define in quotes i found :
* A grind is no fun, it's like you're being abused all day
* The best hand does not give you the divine right to win
* Eat variance and shit $$$$$
This has helped me alot to improve my mindset. I do not longer am very happy when i win a flip and am not sad when i lose a flip, or even 5 in a row. It's not about the result, it's about making the best decision EVERY TIME and if you do that , results WILL follow. You cannot control the cards, but you can control your decisions and you can control your volume. So i focus on that now.
Good month so far. And next week i'm going for a week Bootcamp ( in Dallas )with Bfizz11 who is one of the superstargrinders on Stars. Hopefully my game improves alot when i'm there. Will update when back.
Meanwhile , to look at things positively and not only post badbeats :
Seat 1: Rabinho588 (1320 in chips)
Seat 3: louise34 (2210 in chips)
Seat 4: FCJM (1790 in chips)
Seat 5: jcenb (3020 in chips)
Seat 6: entabeni (795 in chips)
Seat 7: kostenko1984 (1950 in chips)
Seat 8: Xaviola83 (980 in chips)
Seat 9: timey77 (1435 in chips)
Xaviola83: posts small blind 75
timey77: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to entabeni [9c 9s]
Rabinho588: folds
louise34: calls 150
FCJM: folds
jcenb: calls 150
entabeni: raises 645 to 795 and is all-in
kostenko1984: folds
Xaviola83: raises 185 to 980 and is all-in
timey77: folds
louise34: folds
jcenb: calls 830
*** FLOP *** [4s 9h 6d]
*** TURN *** [4s 9h 6d] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [4s 9h 6d 2d] [7h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Xaviola83: shows [Qd Qc] (a pair of Queens)
jcenb: shows [9d Ad] (a pair of Nines)
Xaviola83 collected 370 from side pot
entabeni: shows [9c 9s] (three of a kind, Nines)
entabeni collected 2685 from main pot
As you see , i make the good decision as i probably had better hand then limper and wanted to play him but he folds? unfortunately for me a guy behind me wakes up with QQ and he also makes the good decision. The guy with A9 maybe thought he was prized in altho i doubt his decision there. And then ???? Then it's up to the gods and this time they decide to chose my side and let me hit a nice one-outer. And probably leave the QQ guy frustrated before his screen ....
That is if he hasn't changed his mindset like me !!!!!
