x2 thats very well known. Intuition is hardly invented. 3 years ago i used to play only when i felt i was gonna win. Only had 40hrs months but always 10bb+ at 6max and made a ton of $

Then someday i felt bad about playing so little and started playing looser and playing more hours and forcing myself and every single day that i had doubt about playing i lost. 100% not a single exception.

in b4 small 95 iqs trying to boost themselves with HERMERGERD IZ ATHEIST U CRAZY

had that experience, only problem that i got is i cant trust it anymore, once i had feeling it will be bad day and it was my most profitable day in poker and since then i cant let miss that day if i have a feeling cuz maybe another big winning session is around the corner

What got you to this stage - talent or hard work? Have you had any coaches during your career?

Yeah, it's pretty sick. Can we all subconsciously know what is going to happen or wtf!? Back when I was a degen i used to try to envision my feelings on what would happen after i bet on something on roulette... If i had good vibes, i'd bet, etc. But i guess thats just complete luck so no intuition involved, whereas poker is all in our hands, unless all in ofc.. Meh it's probably best that i don't get started on talking about the past

Haha, mbn... I don't think i've ever won when i thought i was gonna lose. Actually, I think maybe i was down like 3-4 buyins and got even/slightly up by shipping in AJ/aq aipf and hitting the J or Q vs ak like 3 times in a row sucking out... But apart from that, never won..

Definitely never had it all plain sailing where i win all the flips and play A game when i've thought i was gonna lose for sure anyway.

Well, when I talk about poker to my IRL friends , it's always just the funny hands or whatever that get played. But if i speak about poker to my gf (although i'll sometimes show her some fun hands), or my parents especially, the people that know me well, they will always say that it's because I am talented with numbers or whatever, that I am able to beat the poker games I play. They just assume I am better with numbers than the rest of the people I play with... I disagree 100%.

When i first started to play poker , i lost for like 18 months or something. I'd beat the guys who played at school but then i could never beat online...

I slowly started to understand a few things better, was less fishy, then after I beat the nl50 games well, i could move up to 1/2 and 2/4 where i was breaking even but putting in a lot of volume and winning quite a lot from a 65% rakeback deal. If i raked 15-20k a month, could get anywhere around 10k in rakeback. Alot of money in the grand scheme of things.

Then i just kept on playing really, and it all sort of just hit me in the last year or so where i just feel like i will always win at the tables when I play. So when I do lose, i think i take it pretty bad , as i'm never used to losing.. But before, when i lost, i'd always really want the money back asap (hence the online betting/gaming) i used to do, these days I am far more relaxed (0% worried actually), and i just go to sleep or go for a run (sick addition to my life), and just wake up and get it/some of the money I lost back...

So, with a solid mental state , I believe the money one can make can be so so much more than if one had a very weak mental ability - e.g. they tilt alot, move up, chase losses, etc. This change in me i think has been the real key to my recent poker success.

But, going back to answer the question, I think for anyone who succeeds , in no matter what walk of life, whether it is sports, poker, gaming, at work, the more work/time they put into something, the better results they will achieve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3CRdPHDCC0

Love listening to things like ^. From 1min 40 to 1min 58 is good to answer the question, but really, the whole thing is great

So , to where I am now , hard work. And no, not been coached.

On Twitter?

nice thread!


where you from OP

thanks, just outside london

At the end of Day 26, with 4 more to go, I will just reassess my goals quickly to see what I have to do still...

1) I've played 87,048 hands this month, so this will easily be achieved.
2) $76,851 is the current profit excluding rakeback for the month, hopefully get over the line then...
3) I've been on 18 runs this month. So if i run each of the next 4 days I will have achieved 22.
4) I've done 5480 pressups this month, so actually ahead of the current target of (26x200=5200). 6000 total needed to achieve this, so will make it !
5) Turned out saturday got cancelled, so will make this (next pi$$up is decmber 1st)
6) Have done

Looking like a great month in terms of goals set and meeting the targets

This is the answer to all the people asking why they won't make it to the highstakes. Huge inspiration, time to get to ****ing work.

Regarding the feeling, I've always had something like that but on a smaller scale. Meaning, I felt that if I cbet this hand or 3-bet it, I'll somehow spew or make a mistake, or get coolered and lose it. Same with ending the session. Even when I want to put it 30 minutes more, 500 hands more, I feel like I shut get off. 10 minutes later I'm raelly mad at myself that I didn't listen to myself and didn't lose most of the profit.

I think it's kinda more of an illusion. J. Tendler's book would probably say that you're lacking the skill to recognize variance etc. It's interesting.

Not concerned at all about the board double pairing ? Not afraid of Jx/7x at all ?

Thank You.

Thanks for your post

I sometimes get the negative 'i'm going to lose this pot' feeling too preflop, like recently with AA (THE BEST HAND PF ) i've had it, and more often than not, it's lost. Then when I get AA and feel good about it, it wins. I really don't know if its the brain's selective memory kinda thing where if it thinks something and it happens , it remembers it a lot more than when it doesn't happen.. It's a weird feeling nonetheless..

But yeah i agree with what what Tendler's book would say.


Oh I was But sometimes you just have to man up in life and go with it.. Maybe he had two 10's or 2 out of the 3 other Q's , and was just thinking (he took like 2mins of his entire timebank) wtf is this guy betting, is he really value betting AA or did he cold 4b Jx....

Np

$81,200 now for the month. So if i can break even for the next 1400 hands I may take 3 days off and call it GG for the month

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Although if you prove this phenomenon is true (which would be super easy to test) you'd get a nobel prize and be remembered through out history for one of the most significant discoveries ever, completely reshaping our ideas in causality and physics. On the other hand exposing to the world the ability to predict the outcome of essentially random future events would lead to societal collapse (markets don't work so well if everyone knows whats going to happen) so probably keep it contained to this thread.

Btw love the thread

Reading posts like these makes me wish I had more smart friends that were actually interested in this kind of thing.

Instead: The Internet.

Yep its not true dont look into it. You have no power. The only real truth is your govt and church.

lol church = truth? good one...

I was just pointing out some of the extraordinary ramifications if true. And how easy this would be to test, everytime Grind4Money got AA he could write down whether he got the winning or losing (or no) feeling then write down the results. Seriously if the effect is there he becomes most famous person on the planet (and super rich).

But please, if nothing else please do look into it, it's one of the more interesting speculations about the universe. Like what happens if you create a paradox? If you get the bad feeling so don't play the session but then you don't have the losing session, how are you meant to get the feeling? Either these feelings don't effect behavior and outcome (you feel bad but always play anyways, then lose, then past self gets the feeling, etc) or it can effect outcome and we have a paradox that could be remedied by things like multiple/branching universes or my favourite - Doomed Timeline Theory:

"This theory involves the universe incorporating a "fail-safe" by destroying any instance or timeline that deviates from a main timeline to prevent multiple universes from existing. Basically, any time travel deviating from a stable time-loop, paradoxical or not, is doomed to be destroyed."

tl;dr - If Grind4Money changes his behaviour based on these feelings the universe may end.

Subject probably needs its own thread or two, one for the science of human consciousness and one to stop OP from destroying the universe obv.

Haha, loved the last sentence.

Ahh,, this is it...

I am tempted to try and prove this phenomenon though..

+1

I will actually do that though.

Everytime I get dealt AA, and it goes all in preflop, i'll do an excel spreadsheet if i felt good about winning or thought I was going to lose, write it down, then show the results after maybe 100 times...

I really hope you are taking the piss.

Why not just go and try it on roulette? £10k a spin?

Haha why not

And yeah, wasnt serious

I remember i changed my goal after like day 4 of the month to $90k+ for the month over 90khands (not $80k).....

Anyway, I am +$89,308 atm for the month and have played 92,191 hands. Just need to win one more 100bb pot, then it's gg for November

inb4 d00msw1tch