I was disappointed by today’s session.
Recently I’ve been working on the mental game of winning. Poker is not a game of short term results, it’s a game of long term profitable decisions. The part you can control, is the decision, not the outcome. To facilitate this, (and after watching a really good Fedor Holz video) I’ve been measuring winning sessions based on two things:
- How I approach the game (mindset, preparation, posture)
- How I approach the spot (thought process and decision making)
Obviously it’s a slow and iterative process, but last week was very positive. I had a couple of losing days monetarily and a few winning ones, but I felt almost all my sessions were mentally winning.
Tonight, whilst my session was winning monetarily, I got very distracted from my approach, and definitely did not focus on decision making to my full ability, so I’m pretty disappointed in myself.
Overall, I’ve had a good recent period, but my takeaways from this are:
- It’s fine to feel disappoint. It’s not a reason to put yourself down, it’s a reason to drive you to not repeat mistakes
- I do have the discipline to approach the game in a professional manner
- Rome wasn’t built in a day (terrible cliché), forward progress is worth celebrating
So well done me.
L
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