Hello,
Enough crying!
Because of going through a very long downswing, I`m starting to have the loser`s mindset:
1."Stars is rigged. They gave me this challenges(money) with a hand and they take it back with 2 hands."
2."Bad plays reward this ******* player. When I`m trying something like this I`m always getting punished."
3."This bad reg always wins. / Easy to have that graph with all the suckouts."
4."Maybe I should close the session earlier because I`m getting hammered."
5."I`m sure I played that hand correctly. He played it bad." and so on.
Myth busting:
1. I don`t think Stars knows I exist. Stars makes tens of thousands / year from a grinder like me, and I`m not alone. So, it has no reason to intevine when it can easily make millions easy and in a legit way. I should be grateful that I can play on Stars in a legal way with a very small government taxt.
2. During my poker journey I saw guys running good for 1-3 years vs me or general population. Eventually they all had bad swings, the only difference was that the good players recovered from that swing and the bad players struggled for years.
3. In my early-mid poker journey I struggled a lot because I was getting upset on what other players did vs me on the tables, especially if this was a -ev or -ICM move. I started getting better when I was trying to understand why good or bad regs do those move.Adopt the good moves and exploit the bad one.
4. I`m still struggling with this one, but now it`s time to end it and become a pro.
Every time I close the session earlier than supposed to, I lose money, because I`m winning x amount/game and if I`m not playing, I`m winning 0/game. Especially now when I`m playing 9-18 sngs that have lower variance than hypers or mtts. I`ll just try to lose less when I`m running bad and win more when I`m running good. This has it`s roots in checking the PT or cashier during the session.
5. Check and recheck some hands from you and from some regs. Even if you initially think that`s the correct/standard way to aproach it, it could bring more value playing the hand in a different way. This doesn`t mean I have to change my game, but take into cosideration that you can adopt/improve some plays.
I have 6 days of 10-12 hours and I`ll finish the session. Let`s go!
Let`s do volume and crush!