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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Nov 13 2010 12:51. Posts 15163

In my down swing post I mentioned the importance of confidence and that I lose it too easily.

Well today I saw Giggy's vid on Playing A Game. Really sick timing and here are my notes:

Confidence
- The most important factor in Playing A Game

The opposite pole of confidence is Fear.
Fear makes it impossible to play your A game. It is arguably even worse than tilt and anger.

Players often face the following fears:

1) Fear of losing money
This is the biggest factor. Most people have problem even starting session because of fear of losing money. You will see many people that do not put the volume in and think they are not motivated, a lot of the time its just plain fear of losing gains that puts people off putting in volume.

Solution:
-Either Face your fear, or at least be able to control it.
-Treat poker like a video game.
-understand how your brain works and find solutions tailored to your own psyche.

Giggy personally likes to always have 7+hours for his sessions, just to be able to get unstuck and not get the fear of losing money next time. He plays actually better when he is either stuck or is winning a lot, and it doesn't matter to him if he is stuck 2 or 20 BI in a session.

He also mentioned that some people fear losing a lot during one session, and stop loss will be great for you if you do that, as when you know you never lose more than the 'acceptable' amount you will fear losing much less.

2)Fear of other players
When you fear a player, he will crush you. He WILL FUCK YOU UP.
You have to be confident that you can pull some moves on every single player that you are playing against.

You can still be modest and respect other players, and you should, but you should absolutely not fear them. They really are not crushing your soul in every single spot, that is not possible unless they hit some sick heater of hands. Every single player is just a human and has his leaks that you can exploit.

3) Fear of the unknown
Example: Players without imagination always take new untried lines only with the nuts. They know they have the best 100% of the time and there is nothing unknown that they can fear. But when it comes to bluffs they take a different approach because they fear trying new lines and the unknown reaction of the opponent

Others: Fear of pulling the trigger, fear of not being good enough for your limit, fear of playing bad
When you play bad you fear to continue to keep playing bad, which makes you play even worse because of your fear.

The same goes for hitting a few bad sessions at your limit: You fear that you are not good enough, you lose your confidence and you suddenly really are not good enough.

Endnotes

You have to understand yourself to play your A game. What makes you confident and what makes you play without fear.
ALL YOUR WORST FEARS WILL BE REALIZED
-Well not quite, but close to it, and it is especially true in poker. If you fear something, it will happen.

You have to be realistic and realise poker is just 1 long big session.
You have to be also honest with yourself.

Variance
One thing Giggy edited later in his video. Accepting the fact that losing 50 flips in a row is just a reality of poker is absolutely basic and vital. If you don't accept the luck factor and get tilted and start fearing every time you run under EV you are FUCKED.

Stare at the wall for 2 days straight or do whatever you can, but you have to realise this fact and come in peace with it, Tackling fears mentioned earlier will not help you if you can't accept the basic reality of poker.

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Last edit: 13/11/2010 13:20

dogmeat Czech Republic. Nov 13 2010 13:02. Posts 6374

solid post

On November 13 2010 11:51 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
Variance
One thing Giggy edited later in his video. Accepting the fact that losing 50 flips in a row is just a reality of poker is absolutely basic and vital. If you don't accept the luck factor and get tilted and start fearing every time you run under EV you are FUCKED.

thats me

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Garfed Malta. Nov 13 2010 13:24. Posts 4818

link to video?

Last edit: 13/11/2010 13:25

LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Nov 13 2010 13:33. Posts 15163

On November 13 2010 12:24 Defrag wrote:
link to video?

Its on BlueFirePoker, Giggy's latest

He plays 5/10 at the same time too, both on Stars and FTP while throwing knowledge at you. It gets chaotic at times but a great watch :D

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Last edit: 13/11/2010 13:34

PanoRaMa United States. Nov 13 2010 13:35. Posts 1655

Thanks for doing this, I don't have much time to watch videos myself so it's really helpful to me when you transcribe BFP stuff on your blog (like what mariuslol was doing a while ago).

http://panorama.liquidpoker.net

LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Nov 13 2010 13:37. Posts 15163

On November 13 2010 12:33 LemOn[5thF] wrote:

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On November 13 2010 12:24 Defrag wrote:
link to video?

Its on BlueFirePoker, Giggy's latest

He plays 5/10 at the same time too, both on Stars and FTP while throwing knowledge at you. It gets chaotic at times but a great watch :D

No its not,
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http://www.bluefirepoker.com/video/playing-your-a-game.aspx