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Mental Game - The Process Model
AAroddersAA:
--- Quote from: mporter123 on November 01, 2012, 14:25:43 PM ---
Rather than improving your B and C game, why don't we just play A game all the time? :)
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In my opinion both are impossible :-)
Yeah I know I am being factitious the goal should be to play our A game as much of the time as possible, agreed. That being said I would not disagree with VBLUE (sorry don"t know actual name) that if we see a good game them maybe we should be jumping in even if we know we are not quite going to be playing our A game 100% of the time. This is obviously much more relevant to cash than tournaments though.
Fatcatstu:
Being as how this is about online poker, and I am **** at that, I will leave it to you intelligent people ago know more about it than I likely ever will.
Really is something I should try and get better at I suppose.
mporter123:
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on November 01, 2012, 14:36:24 PM ---
In my opinion both are impossible :-)
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Out of interest, how often would you say that you play your "A" game when you play online? How do you define "A" game?
AAroddersAA:
--- Quote from: mporter123 on November 01, 2012, 14:51:33 PM ---
--- Quote from: AAroddersAA on November 01, 2012, 14:36:24 PM ---
In my opinion both are impossible :-)
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Out of interest, how often would you say that you play your "A" game when you play online? How do you define "A" game?
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I don"t know but you must know what I mean, you just sort of know when you are playing it. The outdraws don"t worry you at all, you have no problem folding when you know the river card has just caused you to go behind and just happily carry on. You feel fresher and are properly focused on the game, you keep making the right plays and don"t get lazy (usually this means just calling to chase draws instead of applying pressure and raising because you can"t be bothered to work out if you should be or not when it is marginal). I will try and post something better later on this as it is a good point.
I don"t think I play my A game more than 50% of the time online or live if I am honest.
VBlue:
--- Quote from: mporter123 on November 01, 2012, 14:25:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: VBlue on November 01, 2012, 13:41:36 PM ---
Is Jared expecting me to run "Rocky like" up some steps before I start every MTT session? This pre-game preparation stuff doesn"t wash with me, we are playing online poker not conducting brain surgery. Do enough to make sure you are comfortable when you are playing is about it.
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No - he is not expecting you to run up anything before you play.
Some of the "warm-up" stuff you can do, as I have noted, is make session goals, something inspirational like listening to a piece of music or review your short-term/long-term goals, or maybe play a few hands at a lower stake to try some things out, or go back over some training notes, or hand histories you want to help improve your game.
It may not be brain-surgery. What has that got to do with it. Poker is an extremely challenging game in many ways and a warm-up routine is part of a successful game. Look up The Process Model and see how many sports people use it. Non-league footballers are not playing for millions of dollars when they go out to play but will have a warm-up routine. I don"t get your point here at all Mark
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