Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 92
I'm not an emotionally strong person but this might motivate others to work on their 'mental game'.
I was playing an online $10 buy-in MTT with ~400 players. Late in the tournament I was 15th of 60 players remaining.
Then I had Kings but, unfortunately, my gf called with some stupid question. So I timed-out on the play while talking to her. I replayed the hand and two bigger stacks went all-in preflop. The winner had AJ on a J9563 board so I missed out on a triple-up because of the phone call.
I basically 'lost it' at that point and started spewing chips, shoving on 3 of the next 6 hands, and busted out at 57th place.
I'm not upset at my gf for her call. I'm upset at myself that I lost control. Maybe my example will encourage others to keep calm under similar circumstances.
But for me, I guess it's just a personality trait. Psychologists: is there's a solution?
Maybe the trick is to forget all history of a game ..'live in the moment' like Buddhists practise.