Ty, Baluga! Nice article! 5 stars!

its just good to read an article about this subject written in other words from time to time

thank you

I came.

ironic that you wish us GL at the end of the article, DUCY

Great article. I love the chess quote!

Great article. I love the chess quote!

really good one!!

starting to think baluga is the best training site coach across the board. well done.

I'm still on savage tilt, but good read

I liked this article. However, the other perspective is that rather than "not caring" about short-term results, we just recognise our emotional reaction and let it go. This leads to less suffering than trying to condition yourself not to care when your natural reaction might be to get frustrated.

Also, I just want to make sure I understand your point about ego. Do you mean that a lot of 5/10 regs play in the games with little to no edge just because their ego tells them they should be playing, whereas the 10/20 regs with less ego don't overestimate their edge and only play when the games are good, hence less tables running?

exactly choparno. a lot of midstakes players increase their variance by playing in relatively bad games. the increase in variance increases their tilt, which then lowers their winrate. this in turn increases their variance more. which increases their tilt. and lowers their winrate. etc etc etc.

Nice article... although I'm pissed off as no good waves around at the moment! Come on swell!

very nice, especially since I am fresh off running AA into a set of tens with no beach or surfing in sight... unless of course, I choose to find something similar

Great article! If you want good waves you should go to Bali, Indonesia instead. They are fckn awesome

read. nice one

I need to hang that chess quote up on my wall.

didnt get the point why i need to learn chess for being more lucky in flipping coins...

...whoops, now i did.

thanks baluga, i appreciate your work!

merry x-mas to all!

I don't get it.... Is Baluga saying we should all start surfing to become better at chess and thus oblivious to PLO flipping?

CD

ask cowpig and billyjex
im so terrible at plo flipping. unbelievable.

Nice article.
So easy to understand what the correct attitude is, but so hard to accept variance, swings and establish that attitude

Excellent article was just reading element of poker and this is along similar lines like it a lot.

thanks for the article, but ehhh. I just finished a PLO session where a gueter called my all in and hit. The board paired and made a flush after I flopped the nut straight. A naked flush draw called my large pot sized bet when I had a set and the nut straight, it hit. I have been running bad (not this bad) for a month now and am pretty much done while I think it does not matter that some people have more luck than others...In my case It matters to have less luck....GL all.

Whatever happened to Leon (yvesaint)?

Wow, just stumbled across this. Awesome read Baluga thank you. And thank Leon for that really really great analogy.

It's articles like this that I wish could be read by those in charge of poker legislation. You just can't write about craps or blackjack like this.

So awesome.

I go to Troncones every summer (when the North Shore goes flat) to surf a secret spot just north of there. If any DC members that surf are ever on the NS of Oahu, PM me and we'll meet up for a sesh.

Nice article. i really like the correlation between surf and poker

awesome article,first one i read in this site and its great

nice article! but go and play two- or threehundred of the new HU super turbos on full tilt. lets see how many messed up waves you really can take without quitting surfing entirely

After spending the last few days on a 10 buy-in down swing over 8k hands, it is comforting to find articles to read such as this. It really helps keep your head level and your eyes on the biggest picture.

Thank you so much.

Hey Baluga

cool to hear that you surf. I had an interesting thing happen to me while on a surf trip in July in indo. Waves had been small for a few days then one day it starts getting bigger and everyone is hanging out for waves so it gets pretty crowded. I paddled out and had like an hour where I kept having people paddle inside me and drop in and I didnt get any waves. I got on surf tilt! Then I realised I was tilting and kinda looked around and thought about how awesome it was to be in indo surfing a world class wave and how ridiculous it is to get tilted just over a bit of bad luck.

Id sure like to learn how to come off poker tilt as easily as I came off my surf tilt.

Really good article. I am new to DC and these articles are so well written.
Your metaphorical mastery is much appreciated.

I love the quote, good job writing the article. I like how you related it to surfing, grats.

Awesome article, really love this mindset, gotta try hard to get myself there, cheers