I hate my opponents
 

...though I know I shouldn't. When I finnish a 1000 hand session in the negative, review my big loosers, and they're all to miraculous runner-runner gutshots and 2 outers after calling 2-3 cold on the flop, I want to put these idiots on trial and have them publicly declared imbeciles, shamed before their peers, yada yada yada. The contempt I feel sometimes really suprises me, though I have always been highly competitive. I can't get my head around the paradox that it's because people can win in the short-term at poker while playing retarded that I can win in the long-term while playing smart. I would give up 25% of my profits to experience 50% less varience. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I would give up 25% of my profits to experience 50% less varience.


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If this is your attitude, I recommend that you either play gin or high low split with no qualifier. There's a lot less variance, but its also impossible to find a game.

Re: I hate my opponents
 

Don't hate the players.

Hate the game.

Trying donking it up at lower limits to blow off steam and put yourself in your opponents mindsets so you won't hate on them. Get drunk if you have too.

In the end, it's just a friggin game, dude.

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...though I know I shouldn't. When I finnish a 1000 hand session in the negative, review my big loosers, and they're all to miraculous runner-runner gutshots and 2 outers after calling 2-3 cold on the flop, I want to put these idiots on trial and have them publicly declared imbeciles, shamed before their peers, yada yada yada. The contempt I feel sometimes really suprises me, though I have always been highly competitive. I can't get my head around the paradox that it's because people can win in the short-term at poker while playing retarded that I can win in the long-term while playing smart. I would give up 25% of my profits to experience 50% less varience. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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I wonder if a casino thinks this way when someone goes on a roll on a crap table. Or on a roulette wheel.

Embrace the ones paying you off even though they hit their hands.

Also, study more. You may not be totally buying in to the longrun concept yet.

b

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Giving up 25% of my profits for 50% less varience is kind of a disturbing wish, huh?

I like winning more than money. That's the only answer. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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... I want to put these idiots on trial and have them publicly declared imbeciles, shamed before their peers,

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Re: I hate my opponents
 

I used to hate them but now i don't even view them as human beings. They are just blobs of flesh with tiny brains spewing chips. What was once contempt is now just a vague, detatched sense of pity.

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I like winning more than money. That's the only answer.

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This is probably correct.

The good news is that if you redefine winning to mean playing well, then your problem will go away by itself.

Re: I hate my opponents
 

Read my series on Anger Management at cardplayer.com. I wrote it for people like you.

If you don't gain control of your anger, you CAN'T play poker well.

Regards,

Al

Re: I hate my opponents
 

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Don't hate the players.

Hate the game.

Trying donking it up at lower limits to blow off steam and put yourself in your opponents mindsets so you won't hate on them. Get drunk if you have too.

In the end, it's just a friggin game, dude.

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I exclusively play NL (usually 100NL-200NL) and when I'm steaming a bit, I bring $10 into PL Omaha and just raise everything preflop. Sometimes I'm out first hand, sometimes I go on tares and win up to $75 and leave, positive of the fact that however mad i was, I just made a few other players even madder.