Joined: Jan '08
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No not angry at all. Just making the most of the day. Poker is not going well so its get wasted time. Problem will be gathering people to go out with me, its Wednesday (took me about a 2 minutes to spell correctly wednesday )
This is the singer i was taling about in some other thread; here is the footage from the concert
Joined: May '08
Location: Netherlands
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You running bad predobar lately All due too bad beats or also littl bad play? I hope luck is coming back for you soon. Its annoying when every coinflip goes wrong...
Joined: Jan '08
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Now im shaved, its backdoor straights and flushes killing me. All of those are flop allins except KK, its not only that since midnight downawards is the only direction. 2% won hands. not me downswing peak
edit: bad thing is that i have 2 tourneys tonight and one of them extremly important edit2: LOl, thats it have fun people im going to try Scotty style, drunk as hell tonight. edit3: about singing, music is stolen mainly from Iron maiden and yes his singing is bad, really bad.
edit4: here is one for you M3turbo;
ps. hope BRM has unlimited bandwitdgh deal [:oops]
Joined: Mar '08
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Get off the NL tables, go play some limit, you cant stop a bad run but you can slow it down. Or join a cheap tourn and let it all out (after folding the first 5 mins) You are against yourself now and will play with a murky mind so play wrong. Have a coffee a bar of chocolate, put your relax music on, have a shower, calm down and get ready to play them tourns later.(dont let the next beat get to you or you go str8 back to how you are now) GL
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im already drunk guess what will i do to myself in next couple of hours, luckyily 1st tourney starts in 9 hours and 2nd in 10. now its reallty time to say bye
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BY Dr. Tim Lavalli
Attribution theory describes the way in which people explain both their own behavior and that of others. According to this theory, people tend to see either internal or external causes as the determining factor in most behavior. If you see a child crying in a store, you might think "That kid is a brat" (internal), or you might think "I wonder if he is hurt or ill" (external). You are attributing the child's crying to either an internal or an external cause. In poker, if a player plays a hand particularly badly you might attribute it internally, as in "That guy is a bad poker player," or externally, like "That guy is on tilt or drunk or distracted." The distinction can be important to your game. Bwin Poker
If you are at the table with a truly bad player then you can take advantage of that fact over and over; but if a player is on tilt and he takes a break, he may well come back no longer on tilt and ready to play a much stronger game. If you mistakenly attributed their bad play to the internal fact that this guy is just a bad player, you could lose a lot of chips when he comes back with his "A" game.
So, let's ask the important question: When you lose a close hand to another player, what is your first thought? "He is a donkey." "He outplayed m." "He got lucky." The correct answer is, you shouldn't have the same first thought every time you lose a hand. You should review the hand in order to correctly attribute the loss to skill or luck. But even more importantly, you should make an internal/external decision about both the other player's actions and your own. Far too often we dismiss our own mistakes by putting the donkey label on our opponent. Sure he may have played the hand badly, but how about you?
For each hand where you pick up a read, you want to attribute the other player's play to them correctly. If they really are a rock or a maniac (internal) than so be it, as you then have a good, solid, long-standing read. However, if they were making a move with one hand to show they can be aggressive, then perhaps they were just sending a signal to the table (external) and they will now go back to playing tight.
Applying attribution theory to other players is the easy part. Just don't put a big label on a player (rock, maniac, bluffer) until you are sure. Better to go with several external reads ("He plays A-K fast" and work up to the big label. In most small buy-in tournaments you never really have enough information on a player to make a big internal read. If you jump to such a conclusion it could cost you when the player comes out with a contradictory play. It's not that they are changing up their game; it's that you attributed a style to them based on too little information.
The second application of attribution theory in poker is much more difficult. You have to attribute motivation and actions to your own play. We'd all like to think we lose those big hands to a luckbox or a huge suckout, but we really know this is not true. Sometimes we make a bad read or a bad play; we make a mistake and we should attribute that loss to either an internal or an external factor of our own games. If it's external: we were tired, we missed the read, we got distracted. etc. Note the mistake and move on. If it's internal, then there's some work to do. If you are pushing with top pair/top kicker and getting snapped off time after time, you have a leak in your game. You are clearly misplaying TPTK and it's an internal issue.
Attributing your mistakes correctly and taking action to plug the leaks is fundamental to improving your game. Remember accurately attributing your own behavior is more difficult than attributing the other player's actions and correcting internal behavior is more difficult than fixing external mistakes.
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oh the horror. what a hangover. Kreator was in town and there were lots of fans coming to concert and this one guy had good home made brandy, shlivovitza, with him so the mixture of gin, beer and brandy is having hard side effects. Missed both tourneys but at least it was good party.
Tried to analyze could I have done something differently but could not. Donks just kept calling when they were dominated and were catching backdoor straights and flushes. Nothing that could be done. It was just luck issue, nothing I could do differently because they were bound to call with anything so getting them out of pot was not an option and knowing that it is hard to fold.
About limit holdem, it all started on limit tables, but since it was limit i lost one buyin over several tables. Tried moving down and had my win ratio increased only because they were donks and went into hand with everything also calling with any pair till river. But those few donks were out quick and only rocks remained with me getting junk most of the time, 5:1 junk/good cards ratio by hands not overall and if I go for loose hand selection in some cases 3:1 ratio. This was around midnight local and I went to sleep somewhere around 2 or 3 am. Next morning, yesterday, I went back to NL tables but result was disastrous for the first 15 minutes and no good cards there either so I just called it a day. Anyway had to go out and pick up my new ID. LUCK nothing more or less.
) dont bee ungry m8 next time
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and work up to the big label. In most small buy-in tournaments you never really have enough information on a player to make a big internal read. If you jump to such a conclusion it could cost you when the player comes out with a contradictory play. It's not that they are changing up their game; it's that you attributed a style to them based on too little information.
