Hey, Poker playas!

How are you? Due to the MECQ, Live poker rooms are not yet available. The best alternative option is going online. 

A lot of players are having a difficult time winning online. Sometimes you just want to throw in the towel.

But you love the game! 

This week we plan to release more articles to help you improve your game. We plan to tackle some myths about poker and other tips from the pros. 

We decided to dig deeper into those tips in order for players to help understand it a bit more. 

Let start with changing your mindset.

Removing a defeatist attitude. 

 As a noun, it is a person who expects or is excessively ready to accept failure. As an adjective, it demonstrating expectation or acceptance of failure.

Most players do not notice that they are carrying such an attitude.

There are 4 ways where you can see this attitude.

1. When you start playing, you already believed you will lose.
2. While you are playing and get into a confrontation, you already believe you will get bad beat. 
3. You have an excuse every time you lost.
4. You wanted to join the tournament believing maybe you can hit a jackpot. 

When you start playing, you already believed you will lose.

This is the most common defeatist attitude.

When a player starts believing he would lose. If you believe you will lose. then do not play. 

When you believe you would lose, you would not be playing the way you should win. 

this doubt should be left off the felt.

While you are playing and get into a confrontation, you already believe you will get a bad beat. 

Ever heard a player already looking away and telling people he would get a bad beat on the river?

This is a very common scenario that most players have experienced on the table.

Yes. we do believe sometimes people do have a long streak of bad run that was expected already.

But this is one bad attitude that a local pro gave us a deeper point of view.

One time there was this player on the table. He was whinning how many bad beat he keeps getting. On one hand, he made a medium size bet and actually broadcasted to the table his hand and that he did not want to get a badbeat. Ironically the player on his side spoke and said the most funny thing “Sir, I only have a gutshot. I really did not want to call but since you are saying you have badluck. Ill call to see if its true. True enough the gutshot came out.

The question now is, did he lost because he was a bad beat, or did he lost because of his attitude. Some will still insist that he was only bad beaten,

No, the player did not want to call and he could have taken the pot without a showdown.

An exact opposite scenario.

What if a player played as solid as a rock for an hour, Suddenly he made a move pre-flop. The flop came out and he continued to push the chips and increase the pot. suddenly he went all-in on the river.

You are holding the top pair top kicker. but there is a possible straight or flush. Would you still call?

The way we play on the table affects the outcome of the game.

Often times we judge our win and loss on just one hand. but the truth is before you reach the deeper part of the game. you would have played so many hands by then.

To base on the hand you lost due to a bad beat also says you played perfectly throughout.

Sometimes, we should look carefully at the hands we have won and lost.

Cutting it short.

Although we would have wanted to write the two other defeatist attitudes. It would have extended the article too long.

Stay tuned tomorrow as we would tackle the two other attitude on the next article. 

Stay safe poker playas!