Powerful Intentions
Posted by Chris Pimmer
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Simple, but it's not criticism. Simple things are most important.
Thank you for your video, it really resonated with me.
Thank you very much for letting me know. Happy to hear it resonated !
Chris,
Very nice video and topic. Well done as usual Chris, I enjoyed it.
Thanks
Hey Chris how’s it going
Great video man!!
I wanted to ask you about winners tilt
The past couple weeks, I’ve been on this insane upswing, winning 19bbs/100 over almost 20k hands or so, super small sample size. I’ve changed up my strategy from the help from runittwice, I’m 3 betting more, c betting way more.
I’ve only had like 1 losing session over this time period, I’m super confident that I’m going to stack and destroy my opponents lol.
I’m starting to think hell yeah I’m going to be moving up stakes soon and winning more money.
Although I’m pretty sure I’m playing better, I’ve also gotten super lucky during this time period. I’m thinking to myself will I ever lose again? When will variance hit me to when I’m losing this much? The downfall has to come eventually? It’s like every session I’m just crushing and it’s kinda hard to fathom after grinding for so long. Although maybe it’s not winners tilt if it’s m just executing my strategy correctly, playing well and combination of variance.
How to I stay more clear headed and just focus on playing well. I don’t want to be too over confident, even when I start sessions bad I climb back up and win lol.
Most importantly, I want to make the correct decisions. I don’t want to start deviating and making wrong decisions thinking that they are the right one because hey i can win this pot I’m just going to bluff it off and my opponent will fold lol.
For example, there was a hand yesterday, I was all in on the flop, hearts monotone k high board I had ak with the A of hearts and my opponent had already made a flush. We get it all in, we were super deep for like 450bb pot and I went runner runner boat. I was like this is ridiculous im supposed to lose this hand majority of the time even though I have the nut flush blocker and top pair lol.
Then the next hand I had AA and he punted away the rest of his stack because he was angry lol. ��
This is an interesting spot to be in.
It is great to be mindful about what is going on inside your head.
Also be careful to execute proper bankroll and finance management.
Avoid the feeling of regret if you can.
Onto the other topic, you have to learn to not think about results as much. Which also means to not give them that much weight. You need to instead continue to focus on both your strategy and your wellbeing, your overall execution, after that, there is not that much else you have influence over.
But if your focus always is so heavily on things like when you can move up and dreams of the big bucks and so on, it has a very high potential to trickle into your actions.
Right now you are running incredible and it is perhaps easy to be kind to everyone and generous, but this is kind of a function of being so happy. But when things do not go so well, if you live it out to the extrem on both ends, that would mean you become miserable.
So practice to keep your focus on realizing what it is that you are trying to do.
If you focus on the strategy, on the fact that money is simply a way to keep track of the chips moving around at the table, they are playing units, not money.
Moving up is something that is a function of both, having the money to do so, but also having the actual skill to sustain yourself in the new stake and handle the bigger swings and different situations in the same way.
If there are a bunch of mental situations in your current stakes that come up frequently, they will come up in the bigger stakes as well and perhaps even exaggerated because of the larger sums.
So move with care, more slowly and make sure you are aware of the things that matter to you and you execute the right strategy, management and mental care
Yeah, I think bankroll management and finance management is critically important as a poker player, where even if I l do lose over a period of time. I’m still able to live, pay for bills ect. Don’t want to have like a really bad downswing and not being able to play anymore. No regrets, but at the same time moving up stakes is something I plan and want to do properly.
Yeah that’s really important, I don’t want my results to have a negative effect on my life outside of poker. Just because I have a bad session, doesn’t mean I had a bad day. Or vice versa. Being kind and honest with myself and to others around me is important as well. I don’t want to be super giddy when I’m winning either because it’s like my emotions would be affected by the results of my play. When really we should be asking how did I play? Did I make the right decisions regardless of the outcome?
Also accept, let’s say we move up stakes and get our ass kicked, it’s okay to move back down and grind it back up again. Which doesn’t mean I failed.
Yes, all it shows (in case you do get your a#+$ handed to you), that it is part of the process and that humility and acceptance is what paves the way for you to move there again in the future with a clean approach that allows you to assess everything as it is and look at what actually gets you there.
I think it’s really easy as well, to just play mindlessly and not put in any sort of feeling of why we’re doing what we’re doing, like we’re playing but are we really focusing on winning? are we paying attention to the tables when we’re not in a hand and studying our opponents lines? Are we questioning our own play? How can we extract and exploit our opponents to win more money. Sometimes playing to just play is sort of just turning your brain off in the sense of we’re not actually playing the best we possibly play, distracted by phones or tv
I played a hand a couple days ago, I had gotten like 140bbs in on the flop with top pair top kicker AK, 3 bet pot A73 rainbow board, villain had ew raised me and I shoved and he called with a4
I was a little embarrassed and I left the table and stopped playing for the day, I remember feeling like I punted, it wasn’t until I checked it the next day, my line was actually fine and I had just gotten unlucky. But in the moment I was clearly a little tilted haha
Nice one, thanks Chris!
My pleasure
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