Video: SGT RJ Presentation: Emotional Control In Poker
Category: HUSNG.com
Uploader: ChicagoRy

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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy

For www.husng.com, Nicole "SGT RJ" talks about how to recognize emotional issues both in poker and in life. She also offers practical advice on how to begin addressing and fixing these leaks.

Feedback and constructive criticism is welcomed. I've never done a video like this so I assume I'll get smoother as I get more practice. Otherwise, your honest assessments and suggestions are appreciated, and if you have any ideas for other videos that you'd like to see that involved poker mindset or life coaching type topics, please feel free to make suggestions for those as well.

Your framework for this video was many times better than most/all other videos I've seen on the subject. Honestly, I think that is all you can really ask of something like this, without following with a concellor of your own. I have to say as well, I was very skeptical of anything like this helping me coming into it, given the track record of similar videos on the same subject(most are convoluted/use too much psychobable/structure them in a way someone who was trained in the subject would understand, but isn't quite simple/direct enough to convey the same message).

Very well done.

great video bro!

LOL.

Great vid ma'am.

It's nice to see concepts like that put in a way that they can be easily understood. Like how having realistic expectations can keep you from getting upset when you lose a 75/25 All in.

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Excellent job SGT RJ

would listen again

enjoyed the presentation a lot, nice work!

I thought the video was excellent. Lots of good information and well presented. I'm also a big fan of the 30 minute length for poker training videos.

Thanks for the feedback thus far, and I agree: 30 minutes is pretty much the sweet spot.

Further feedback, constructive criticism, or suggestions is always welcome, either here or via PM.

really good rj

First off, I was mostly curious because I knew you are a woman poker player and a mod, so wanted to see what you had to say.

And I thank you, thirty minutes is a good time.
I took a couple of breaks even to stop and attempt to apply your concepts to my own playing, and ended up thinking in life terms...aaaggghhh !
I could go on, lol, but best not; you would probably want to charge me!!

So yes, please continue if possible. I also liked your use of a visual aid to accompany your speaking.

I think video/presentations involve 2 areas

1- content (which seems very good)
2- presentation

I am just going to address the 2nd area, presentation.

This reminded me of an average graduate level seminar or presentation at a national meeting for some organization. More variety in speed, voice inflection, more pics, video of yourself - all would help. An easily followable structure would help - intro, say what you are going to say with outlines -body, say it - conclusion, summarize main points of what you said

If you want to be a great presenter or seminar speaker - these would help, and probably already have watched seminars you really like - what do they have they you presently do not.

Thanks RG I start to tilt when the "negative" variance piles up in a session, and my answer is to simply get up and quit for the day. It works, I am ready to get back to it usually the next day with a refreshed attitude. This works well for me since mostly I play cash/ring games. You can't do that in a tournament, however, so I usually try to take a fatalistic/humourous attitude and kind of expect the variance to get me and just enjoy the trip if I get on a heater. Nice tape and always remember "Fear is the mind killer"!

Good video, thank you.

Very good, thanks.

a/s/l?

Excellent video, can't think of anything you could do different, good job.

For a first video, this is really excellent.
Presentation is a little drab - you're basically just reading the text on the screen, which I could get by reading a book - but I appreciate the clarity of your speech. It's so much better than some of the mumbling I hear on Deuces Cracked "live" commentaries.

"How do you deal with tilt?" is a frequently asked question in the BQ forum. Next time someone asks, I'll direct them to this vid. Nice one Nicole!

Nice video, ty. An idea for something you could address would be returning to i suppose a "normal state" after experiencing tilt as quickly as possible whilst playing MTTs. While taking a break is possible when playing cash, when playing MTTs it may be one hour into a 10 hour session, and you may have 10+ tables going already, thus just taking a break isn't at all possible. Any thoughts on this would be useful imo.

Great video Sarge. I will definitely watch again.

Any ideas on what you think would be beneficial to incorporate other than just talking over the powerpoint? I do discuss things verbally far more in depth than the actual points of the slide, but I recognize that this is still basically a lecture format, and those can be dull. I'm open to any ideas anyone might have for improving this.

Certainly a valid point. Obviously you have to be very broad/generic when discussing such a wide ranging topic, which means that you sometimes don't cover a specific problem like this one.

Returning to a neutral emotional state is very individual specific; the best method, of course, is training yourself not to get overly emotive in the first place. Barring that, at least in the short term, a specific script that targets your most frequent tilt inducing thoughts may help.

For example, say that you specifically get quite angry when someone wins a pot where you were a significant favorite because this is "unfair". The underlying irrational thought here is that things are fair; rationally, I think we all understand that life isn't fair, and certainly an inanimate object like a random number generator is neither fair nor unfair.

So when you start getting tilted at you can't take a break, you repeat (out load if necessary) a specific set of principles that you prepare in advance that specifically target this. Something like:

Poker is a game of math, and sometimes the huge underdog sucks out. There is nothing unfair about this; it's just math. In addition, the universe does not owe me fairness. Getting worked up over this only hurts me, not my opponents.

Hope you get the basic gist of what I'm saying here, and that someone finds it helpful.

Great vid SGT RJ. I would like to see more from you on mental game type topics. Perhaps a video specifically targeting poker-life balance may be good, and would be unique. I thought your presentation was a bit drab as well- my recommendation is to make the viewer think for themselves a bit more (e.g. ask a question and then tell the viewer to pause the presentation, then show a solution, something like that). Also a little more color/graphics may be helpful. Although, I very much liked the elegant simplicity of your slides. Look forward to any future vids!

It needs more pictures, but I'm not really sure what to suggest, as "emotional control" isn't something that can be illustrated very well.
Maybe change the colour scheme (it's all a bit grey and academic) and have a few more colourful bullet points here and there, as otherwise every slide looks the same to the casual viewer.
You've got to somehow make emotional control seem like "fun". I'm sure you could do this with your sense of humour, but the vid as a whole came across as a bit "dry" for my liking.
FWIW, I was also tired and grumpy when I watched it and I'd just had KK cracked by ace rag all in pre-flop, so I wasn't really in the mood for a lecture!

good video! Hopefully i can improve my tiltyness and get back to winning ways