Self discipline techniques

[Dan Mezick]

Start with working on your issues. What issues?

Too much aggression post flop often leads to huge avoidable losses....often followed immediately by:

* self-loathing,
* self-distrust,
* disappointment,
* guilt, and
* regret.

Perhaps you can be a great player, yet for some reason you always seem to arrange opportunities to feel these emotions very intensely, at the poker table, postflop.

Poker forces either intense awareness or intense denial.

Pick one.

When I'm working on a leak while playing online I'll put a sticky note to re-enforce what I'm trying to fix. For example I recently had a bad run of beats and lost confidence which worsened the situation and make me play a weak/tight style without realizing it. I took a break to get regrouped and study my PT stats. When I got ready to hit the tables again, I put notes like "Be Aggressive", "Raise" etc on the monitor.

[Dan Mezick]

There is no perception without attention. Your chosen forms of attention include: writing sticky notes, taking a break and studying PT stats.

There is no doubt you gain brand new insight and perceive brand new dimensions of the game when you do this. Attention greatly increases perception.

All of this effort costs you something. That's why it's called "paying" attention.

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Too much aggression post flop often leads to huge avoidable losses....often followed immediately by:

* self-loathing,
* self-distrust,
* disappointment,
* guilt, and
* regret.





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A Poker Jedi seeks not these things.