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Originally Posted by Chiggs
1) Run hand(s) by a friend. Often the results of a hand can skew your thinking into believing you played it incorrectly.
2) Recognise that an agitated or distressed state of mind can arise when losing multiple pots in a row/losing big pots/. Come up with a plan to combat this in the future. This could be writing out all your frustrating thoughts on your phone away from poker. Doing this in an unfiltered way. And then following your breath for a few short minutes i.e. meditating.
3) Truly recognise how the human mind becomes transfixed with losing sessions. How your awareness is continually drawn back to what happened. How it takes over your thoughts and how it sends your thoughts down a regular stream; where you fixate and beat yourself up.
Spotting every single time this occurs is hard work. However, shining a clear awareness into this state of mind (one without judgment and often repeatedly) leads to something quite remarkable.
great advice thanks; one of my favorite injecting logic statements.." just bc you lost the hand doesn't mean you played it badly "
there are times where there is no doubt that I played the hand badly and I am clearly way out of the line; these are the types of things that I experienced in this session;
I need to be aware of my early warning signs and for me it is always the same; I begin to play too many hands; this is the first warning sign for me so I need to be ready to respond in the future