Never Hide Your Poker Mistakes

Not hiding your mistakes and failures is a critical part of playing professional-level, winning poker. You can never overlook mistakes. You can never reserve losses. You can never hide from failure. You absolutely must acknowledge, embrace and proclaim your disasters.

Losing players "forget" losing sessions, "ignore" bad plays that cost them money, and "overlook" the tilty, emotional play that is the foundation of their failure. They don't acknowledge losses, errors and problems because they are scared people will understand that they are bad players. Maybe their wife, maybe their friends, maybe other players will recognize that this guy is full of baloney. But the major reason they ignore, hide and overlook is basically because THEY don't want to face the realization that they are the cause of their particular failure.

Basically, if they are losing players, then logically they should Stop Playing. But they don't want to stop playing. They would like to keep playing because they like to play. So rather than facing their inadequacy and getting better, they hide it and stay bad - or even get worse.

So your goal should always to be to downplay your successes - they are expected, after all - and to highlight your failures. Learn to concentrate on them without judgment or getting down on your self. Learn to get very interested in learning them, such as a young boy with an interesting bug. Poke it, flip it, pick it up and allow it crawl on your fingers. Quite simply, examine it and ask it some questions.

Questions to ask your little red failure bug (mine is red):

- Where did you originate from, little failure bug?

- Why did I invite you in to my house?

- Are you part of my approved game, or did I vary from what I consider to be optimal play?

- Are you truly a failure, or are you simply bad luck in an interesting form?

- Did I play you to make myself feel a lot better?

- How many other forms has this bug/mistake taken in my game?

Look for variations of the same mistake and find a pattern.

Find out how much this type of mistake has run you in the past. Consider it; put a DOLLAR figure to it. Now, project into the future how much that mistake costs. If your goal is to play two times as often at twice the stakes for another decade, which mistake run you $100 last month, then you can certainly safely say that if you don't correct this mistake, it'll cost you you $48, 000!!!

Now that little failure is not such a small thing, is it? If this is the one mistake that keeps you from being truly a winning player, then it could cost you thousands of dollars over your poker online (click here to visit qqidnpoker.xyz for free) career - a career which will never exist.

Now, make a new rule - or revise a current rule - to eliminate this mistake and drill it into your game. Utilize the rule writing formula. Write your new rule 100 times, put it in your journal, tape it to your screen.

The point here is to never ignore mistakes. They truly are the Most Powerful tool you have in making money in poker. Make them known, talk about them with the others and let them out. When you keep these dilemmas inside your self, they will fester and cause emotional constipation in your game.

You want to keep you poker mentality fresh and ventilated. The only method to do that is to keep it transparent. Any parts that you hide will rot from insufficient oxygen and create dead areas in your poker psyche.

Remember any failure is a window by which you can see future, greater success. If you open it, explore it, and go through it you'll find new, sunny vistas. If you close the curtain on it and try to ignore, it will turn into a cold draft that annoys you forever and steals life from your game.