Mental Game Poker Strategy Lessons

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• How To Control Tilt At The Poker TableTilt Is Any Emotional State That Makes You Play Worse Than You Know How To, And The Most Reliable Control Is A Plan Decided Before The Session: Warning Signs You Watch For, A Break You Take When They Appear, And A Stop Rule You Do Not Argue With.
• Poker Variance And How To Survive ItVariance Is The Gap Between What Your Decisions Earn On Average And What Actually Happens, And It Is Large: At The Example Win Rate Below, A Winning Player Still Finishes 10,000 Hands Behind About 31% Of The Time.
• Results Oriented Thinking In PokerResults Oriented Thinking Is Judging A Decision By How The Hand Turned Out Rather Than By Whether It Was Right, And It Teaches Bad Lessons: A Player Who Gets All In With 80% Equity Still Loses 20% Of The Time And Should Make That Play Every Time.

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