One reason that poor players are prone to making mistakes at the poker table is that many decisions in poker require assumptions or thought processes that are vastly different to those we require in our everyday life. In fact, many of the attitudes required to play good poker actually go against our instincts.
Ian Taylor & [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: bad players, Hilger, instinct, mind, Taylor
- Published:
- February 15, 2010
To be successful, you have to live a balanced life. All of those players who just sit in front of their computers all day long, seven days a week, will simply burn out and not really enjoy what life is all about. To succeed in today’s poker world, you must be disciplined enough to separate [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: discipline, Hilger, life
- Published:
- February 1, 2010
Convince yourself that you are neither lucky or unlucky. Luck is a label that can only be applied in the past tense, never in the future. The odds of any random event occurring are precisely those dictated be the laws of probablility. If you miss ten flush draws in a row, then the odds of [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: emotion, Hilger, luck, mind, Taylor, tilt
- Published:
- December 14, 2009