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Old 08-13-2005, 01:33 PM
MicroBob MicroBob is offline
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Default Re: Winning big pot causes bad play

i'm not too far from this.

the form of tilt that gets me most is overconfidence when I'm winning.
It's not going to be one specific pot per-se. But if I've been winning big over a day or two my play deteriorates and I go more on auto-pilot.

probably part of me starts to feel like I can't be beat during these stretches. I'll even have dreams where I'm scoring the game-winning goal in game 7 of the Stanley cup or something (which is kind of amusing since I can't even skate). I attribute these dreams to the confidence I feel in my poker-abilities when I'm winning.

It's a constant battle. I'm winning that battle more now...but I also know there are still a couple of calls or bets in there where I might not have made them before. It's something like "I can semi-bluff here and I have decent odds that he'll fold because all these guys suck anyway."
Something like that...basically I wind up getting way too aggressive and using some rather liberal pot-odds or implied-odds nonsense in my head to justify it.
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