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The Other Side - Audiomachine & Paul Dinletir
You recall a quote like that regarding the trading world. Every trader that rides the bull market considers himself a genius, how wonder? It might feel pretty good to buy something in an exploding market and it is only about skills right? What happens when the shit hits the fan though? Because it will.
The same thing happens in poker, you guess, to everyone, even you.
You were pretty lucky the last 3 months and now you have lost a good chunk in just a few days, have you thought the sunrun would last for years? So naive… Mental toughness shows up when everything is crumbling, not because you have lost one session or you got coolered once. No, real mental toughness is the ability to cope with bad things, happening all at once and/or for a prolonged stretch of time.
You are always mesmerized by players who log a few hundred of hands per day (not even all days) and talks about how their mind was strong during those 300 hands. But let's be honest you do the same. You hate when your peers whine, you know full well how detrimental is that characteristic. Probably you hate yourself, even more, knowing that you have the same blame, you don't whine in public but you do alone in your room, but it's easier to point a finger toward other people instead of looking at your weakness. Instead of judging others you should take an honest view of yourself and realize what a big ego you have and this is preventing any step forward.
If you want to play poker is like that
Make peace with it
Find a way
to accept these things like waiting in car queue for who works in office in Milan
Yesterday a close friend of mine told you to make peace with variance and you felt something deeply like something clicked. You felt different for the very first time since you started your career, somewhat changed but you don't know what. What you do know is that yesterday, you went to sleep without any grudge, without hating life or hoping for the worst things to happen to you.
You cannot always win in poker, even if you would love it that way.
Regulars and fishes try to win money, the same way as you do, you aren't entitled to anything. For some reason, you want to play a game where the reg isn't putting you in difficult spots and you want the fish to give away his money with no equity. This isn't the game of poker and after 13 years, it's better to make a peace with it.
What can you do in practice?
Recently a guy posted his PLO graph on reddit
