Poker Update – Naturalism
Played 30mins or so of Rush Poker 2cent/5cent. Also read about 30 mins of Zen & the Art Of Poker. The chapter on SAMSARA or the cycle of self frustrating effort. Basically the point of the chapter was to simply take the ordinary natural way with complete emotional detachment. I had an opportunity to practice this for the following hand:
Flopped a SET of 8s. Rainbow flop. The guy with pocket As bet heavy. I was short stacked so I went all in. Long story short he got runner runner clubs to give him an A high flush. Clearly a hand I statistically should have won.
I was annoyed because I lost my buy in but then emotionally detached myself and kept playing properly. Soon after I won almost all of the money I had lost back.
All of the inner game poker books stress its not what cards you have or what your opponents are doing that causes you to win or lose. It is your attitude and state of mind.
So far this is proving true.
-Ethan Caine
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June 12 2010 12:46 am | EthanCainePoker.com News
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