2005-07-27
So I join the 21st century July, 2005, and upgrade Poker Tracker to the Postgres version and install PokerAce HUD. WOW! I bookmarked it when it came out, but I hadn’t played enough to warrant using it yet. Amazing. I love the flash of the mucked hole cards. Very, very nice. I used this setup at Party last night at a 1/2 NL table.
As a fellow Professional Poker Player (TM) is fond of saying, “If it weren’t for luck, I’d win all the time.”
I hear ya bro.
So I’m holding about even, which kind of sucks, but at least I’m not losing much. I’m sitting with $185 when I proceed to lose it all in one hand.
I was a 96% favorite on the flop. Donkey got lucky (see above) and made a set on the turn. Then again, I played the flop terribly, so I kind of deserved it.
I’m going to run it by a player who, you know, doesn’t suck at NL, and see if I messed it up or if it was just “one of those hands”.
Needless to say, I stood up from the table and decided to watch Reno 911! instead. I didn’t tilt, I didn’t let it bother me, I just went on. That’s key I think. It’s easy to go on tilt after something like that, rebuy, and play sub-optimally.
How many times have you read people doing that exact thing? Quite often, right? Well, quite often among people who don’t win. No offense, but you’ll notice that most winning players have a decent amount of tilt control. You have to in order to win because the beat will happen. Look at a real poker pro, Matt Maroon, and his recent bad beats. He is much better than I could hope to be, and plays much higher than I do, but makes a good point:
I guess my key to emotional control is just not caring.
I’m the same way. Granted, losing $200 in one night is different than losng $9000, but the concept is the same. You cannot get bent out of shape over losing. The stakes really don’t matter because if your bankroll is $50, losing $15 is a big deal. Just go read Matt’s entry and you’ll see that bad suckouts happen at every limit and goes to show that good bankroll management in addition to an even disposition are quite possibly two of the most important qualities of a good poker player (and “good” should be used loosely when talking about me).
July 27th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Its all relative. Like Jen Harmon not wanting to sound like a snob when she talked about going from the $2K-$4K game down to something like $800-$1600 when she was sick.
July 27th, 2005 at 1:14 pm
I have heard rumors of this “even disposition.”
Where can I find one?
July 27th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
Ironic - I just upgraded my PokerTracker to the postgreSQL database today too
Seems much faster.