Wednesday, March 7
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Poker
I finally got some guts and moved onto the next level of stakes in poker.
The reason why it took me a year and half to finally move up is that you can't play poker with scared money. It's like catching a baseball is easy, but if someone said you'd lose 2000 dollars if you missed, it suddenly becomes more difficult and you don't trust yourself. You have to be able to catch that baseball no matter the pressure and that can only be done by days and days and days of catching it, building up your confidence and experience.
It also helps if you have lots of money. If you had 100,000 k and someone told you that, you'd be much more relaxed trying to catch it then if you only had 4000k.
So yes, I've gotten a lot of experience and I've built up a lot of poker money put aside just for poker. Now I can just play my game and I'm not shaking when I see a big bet, I know if I should fold or not and I follow through.
In the last month I also self discovered that table image and position is MORE important than your actual cards. As you go higher and higher in stakes, more and more often you don't actually see what the other person has. I like to make myself not stand out at the table and project a very safe player and then later I can steal a lot of small pots (with garbage hands) and win a lot of huge ones (when my garbage hand hits something unexpected because they think I only play premium hands).
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