I think as poker players, we are surrounded by the results of others, and compare them to our own. I think this is a very bad way to mentally prepare for the game and even though it is almost impossible not to.

A guy I used to play nl100 full ring with won the sunday million a few weeks ago for about 260k running bajezuz hot. He was terrible at full ring and i crushed him for a few hundred.

As i railed the match i became frustrated because a player so undeserving could make so much money in poker. Since when does poker give the just their due and the fish their bustoness on a 100% consistent basis? The best thing i've ever read about poker is that "Poker doesn't owe you shit", and i've grown to let this be my downswing mantra so that i realize that i can only control so much.

The ending to this story of the guy who won the milli (Orionrg) was that he went to the nl5k full ring games and played a lot of heads up and donated about 150k to various regs there. (not really a justice i just think it's kinda sad/funny that he thought he could play nl5k after winning the millski)

An undeserving player? Maybe.
A fish? Probably.
More deserving than you or me? Probably not

BUT

If we are busy looking at everyone else we let our eyes wander towards the accomplishments of others and our feet trip out from under us on our journey to super robusto sauce in the poker world.

It's not your accomplishments vs the coaches on leggo or the random donkament lucksack on a random sunday.

It's about you and getting where you are going and staying focused so that you don't trip on the results of others while trying to form your own and doing what you are here to do, get better, take maney, and enjoy the game.


IJA