Re: My Contrarian Opinion
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Poker is measured by one thing... money won versus money lost. It's really easy to keep score and it's the only tangible thing that matters. The rest is theory. Interesting theory but still theory.
I measure my success purely on winning sessions > than losing sessions. I want my winning sessions to outnumber the losing sessions 2:1 and not allow any losing session to be more than 2x a normal buy-in while riding a winning session until I get tired sometimes pushing 4-5x normal buy-in's.
If you're not at least thinking at least a little results-oriented you're being naive.
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If you know you are playing well, the results are meaningless. Especially in shortterm. You do know you can have fewer winning sessions than losing sessions and still be a winning player, right? You can also have more winning sessions than losing and still be a losing player. So that's not really a good accurate way of keeping track.
Poker isn't about winning pots, it's about playing as well as you can until the pot is pushed. That's not theory, that's fact. Casinos are built on that fact every day.
If you are in a session and start letting results dictate your play, you leave. If you're getting bogged down mentally because you haven't won in 7 sessions, you don't play until your head is right and not taking those past 7 sessions into consideration.
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