Poker is a weird game emotionally...
I feel like I have a very good grip on my emotions (both with poker and irl), however I feel like an idiot for how I even with that still let myself get affected by Poker.

Everyone who plays for a living knows that you should not look at short-term results, however most people that I know (including myself) fail to achieve this. I know that short-term results mean almost absolutely nothing, but yet I still let my emotions get affected by them, and not in a good way.

I think everyone agrees that winning $500 in a day would be a good thing. However if you start of great and are up $1500 and then at the end of your session lose $1000 again you feel alot worse then if you start the day off losing $1000 first and then ending up $500 total. Even though the net gain is the same.

It is even so (for me) that first losing alot and then getting back to even feels alot better then winning and proceeding to lose half of the winnings. Even though with the second option I would have a higher net gain. I find this especially stupid since, like I just said, I (should) know that these shortterm results are fairly meaningless.

Today I was trying to think on how happy winning money makes me in comparison how I feel when I'm losing money. It's really hard to determin but I thought it was around this:

3x win == 1x losing. (so winning $300 makes me as happy as losing $100 makes me unhappy)

However I don't really seem to get that happy from winning as much, luckily I'm also not caring as much when losing. I'm really happy with this emotional detachment because I feel it's very important if you play this game proffesionally. However I'm going to try to care even less about the results.

I do check my HM way to often, but it's just to hard to not check :x


Hmmm I guess it is just me spewing random thoughts, I am curious to find out how people think where their line of winning happiness vs losing unhappiness lies. So plz comment on where your line is. (I wonder if ppl have a 1-1 line)



I'll end it with a funny pic I came across:


Robin out