Discipline

[Louie Landale]

Had a tulmutrous week-end. Saturday I was in a pretty good predictable game but found myself down 40BB, partly due to beats but mostly due to flopping nothing or missing my draws. Anyway, I stayed disciplined and focuses, actively resisting the negative thoughts and desires to go on tilt. I managed to turn that session around to a 30BB winner. Now while I was not playing "great" I feel that it was my best session in months just because I kept my composure.

Has a similar session Sunday: got stuck 30BB and turned it around to even just like the day before. But then I got stuck 25BB again. This time the negative thoughts started taking over, I noticed that "84s didn't hold up", got demoralized. So I quit early.

The point is that monitoring and managing your own attitude (as I successfully did) is worth a WHOLE lot more than eaking out some extra EV with clever plays.

Failing to lose $20 spends just as well as spectacularly earning $20.

- Louie