Hey all, just something thats been on my mind lately so thought I'd do a quick post about it really. So lately i've been hit on a sick run where basically nothing is going my way on the felt, which sort of sucks and is a huge blow to your mind frame especially when your just not used to it for example just coming off a hot run or something like that.
I know this is something that has been talked about before by lots of other people but when your in the middle of a downturn you can always forget the simple truth of poker and thats Long Term v Short term, as players we shouldn't be thinking results orientated no matter how hard this is, it's detrimental to our game if we are thinking this way at the felt. I know this first hand as of late because even though i've read this before I found myself thinking argh i've played like 300 mtts since november and I haven't won any of them yet on PokerStars. I found this quite frustrating as on PKR I have won more mtts ect but also on stars i've one quite a few 180 man sngs. So I don't know maybe this is just the balance I have got to accept because the fields are bigger so variance is going to be a bit harsher I just need to play more games to counteract this variable.
To be honest now that I am back to thinking like this things feel better when I'm at the felt, I'm no longer thinking about my results just playing each hand the best that I can and for any one reading this I hope this helps bring you to this place as-well. I actually only thought about it after talking a friend(Hunteryv) about my results of late ect and then I was watching on youtube the Tom Dwan's million dollar challenge and in an interview he talked about it and actually the accumulation of people talking about it helped me get back to this place.
I've got a couple of questions for anyone reading this so feel free to post your answer in the comments box below.
1) What do you guys do to get in the right state of mind before you get at the felt? ( Do you believe healthy body = healthy mind for example)
2) What music do you guys listen to when your playing? I think I've got quite a weird mix when I'm playing lately its been Evanesence's new self titled albumn, Jessie J and then some random musical thrown in the mix with a bit of Linkin park too.
3) What has happened to Tom Dwan, is it just me or has he dropped off the face of the earth. Really interesting player would like to see more of him in media to be honest. You guys know anything about what he been doing?
Anyway Hope you enjoy the read and look forward to your answers,
Peace
1, It really depends. A lot of grinders go on about the healthy body and healthy mind thing but I think it depends a lot on what helps you get in the zone best. For myself I always feel better the healthier I am but Im too lazy to do the gym thing but I assume it would help. I think for inexperienced players feeling gd physically will help because playing long MTT hours does take it out of you if you are not used to it. Personally speaking though some of my best performances have been while very ill or off colour and Im not really sure why that is. Maybe it has something to do with the fact Im gd at zoning things out so when I have flu etc all I am able to do is concentrate on hands and feeling ill rather than forum whoring, emailing and googlin etc so I guess the lesser workload helps me keep in the right zone.
ReplyDelete2, Cant really answer as I rarely play with tunes on in the background, its neither a positive or negative for me.
3, Since the Full Tilt shizzle Dwan has been staying under the radar. There are rumours he has been playing on Stars but as far as I know he has mostly been pwning in live games in Vegas and Macau.