How do you deal with your fear?

iboga · Feb 21, 2018

Starting hand strategy in poker is one of the most basic and essential techniques one must master but aside from that we need to have strong mind and be brave . In poker tournaments we can not hammer our way to FT, agression is necessary .
But poker is complicated and
In every street the board will change .
Sometimes you go in with good cards and nothing shows on the board.This doesn't mean we should give up on it and we can often take it down with Cbet .
Well this makes me sweat and I don't really know how to deal with my fear of loosing when I'm bluffing or getting exposed at the table .

How do you deal with your fear and what do you replace it with ?

quick · Feb 21, 2018

iboga said:
Starting hand strategy in poker is one of the most basic and essential techniques one must master but aside from that we need to have strong mind and be brave . In poker tournaments we can not hammer our way to FT, agression is necessary .
But poker is complicated and
In every street the board will change .
Sometimes you go in with good cards and nothing shows on the board.This doesn't mean we should give up on it and we can often take it down with Cbet .
Well this makes me sweat and I don't really know how to deal with my fear of loosing when I'm bluffing or getting exposed at the table .

How do you deal with your fear and what do you replace it with ?

Common consensus will be that this means you're playing too high stakes and it's making you nervous or fearful to make a C-bet when you know it's correct (and also when you know some % of the time it will be met with a 3-bet or shove you have to fold to losing your c-bet money).

My online game improved immensely almost overnight once I started using C-bets more on missed flops esp in position. But I had to drop down stakes and let go of any fear of losing the hand and be prepared to fold to 3-bet shoves sometimes.

Another way to frame C-betting as valuable (even though we fear we'll get raised, floated, or miss and end up with A high) for long term play is that it gives us information. If we check/check a flop after raising pre flop we have no idea where we are at in the hand and thus have little idea what villian might hold. We sometimes have to use the C-bet to gain information (ie if they smooth call the c bet on a 2 to the flush board we may consider strognly they are on a flush draw whereas if they immediately shove they may have hit a set OR have made a pair with a redraw to another bigger hand). Information isn't often free so when you're afraid to fire off a C-bet when you know you should...use the information gained from how your opponent responds.

Vlad symrak · Feb 21, 2018

Sky Only one who has nothing to lose, play frirroly and gaining courage !!!

NHequalsFU · Feb 21, 2018

Fortune favors the brave.

If you want a big payday you will at some point have to gamble. If you are playing with fear you are either playing too high stakes or just need to learn to play without thinking of the money. Your goal is to make money but to be successful you have to block out the money. GL

SlavaUa · Feb 21, 2018

I never fear, but tilt it is something, i play poker for a long years and tilt is really problem for me.

ssory83 · Feb 21, 2018

Fear? Why be afraid when playing poker? Hmmm! Maybe fear of losing money. But if you sit at a table to play poker with fear, then you do not sit down.

Andrew Popov · Feb 21, 2018

quick said:
Common consensus will be that this means you're playing too high stakes and it's making you nervous or fearful to make a C-bet.

Perhaps, just like that. The game is not bankroll or just an unusually expensive game - it causes such fear. This fear is like giving one hand at a price. You have to decide what you want from poker or from this hand, party, tournament ...

start playing according to your bankroll, for the money that you are not responsible, and who are ready to lose. The amount of money at the table should not be the meaning and purpose of your life. In the end, it's just bad for your health.

Pokerguy6666 · Feb 21, 2018

iboga said:
...How do you deal with your fear and what do you replace it with ?

Alcohol! (Vodka in my case)

white_vision0 · Feb 24, 2018

Fear when playing poker? I play for fun, to relax. If you play at your level, meaning you don't put more money that you can afford to lose and don't panic, I don't think fear can be involved

sanekhorror · Feb 25, 2018

Fear is a big hindrance to poker, with fear, the game will not go well, you need to overcome it, you can distract yourself to music, and in general turn the thoughts in your head, because in reality there is no fear, maybe only the departure from which tournament , or the loss of a small amount of money, but it's also a trifle, because you knew what went on, it's excitement, it happens all.

Nick301274 · Feb 25, 2018

there is some kind of pattern, about 2 good hands, and then 7-8 bad hands, even with AA you can lose, so my strategy is playing with good hands I do not go all in with AA until I see the flop, I play with good hands as soon as I start to play I make a break I miss 5-8 moves, then again I play, in each game a new strategy, even when I change the table, I play a new game, because the players are already different

AlfieAA · Feb 25, 2018

you deal with fear by feeling the fear in the body...the tightness in the chest/head/stomach/neck/shoulders etc...

and you try and feel it without judging what is being felt...(by being stuck in your mind and wanting to get rid of the feeling)

the feelings themselves are nowhere as bad as what the mind thinks what its feeling...or the story...

i am an expert in anxiety, so if you have any questions, just ask my man :top:

frnandoh · Feb 25, 2018

We are afraid when we have enough knowledge. Study and evolve.

iboga · Feb 25, 2018

I think fear itself it's not a bad thing .
After all it's one of our senses.
It is there for a reason .

AlfieAA · Feb 25, 2018

iboga said:
I think fear itself it's not a bad thing .
After all it's one of our senses.
It is there for a reason .

yes, its serves a function...

but when the fight/flight response is activated 24/7, there is a problem..

a big one.

domdiego · Feb 25, 2018

Fear makes it difficult for you to play good poker games. One of the things that can frighten fear is to risk more wisely, calmly, patiently play in the right position at the table and enough analysis of the opponents and the game causes you to play more clarity and scares the fear

Serjo600 · Feb 25, 2018

If in doubt, it is better not to play at all

iboga · Feb 25, 2018

AlfieAA said:
yes, its serves a function...

but when the fight/flight response is activated 24/7, there is a problem..

a big one.

I often get that fear of loosing when I'm in the hand and I am really holding good cards but still beat by opponent.

So in a way it's trying to warn me. I believe it comes from the same place as your gut and 6th sense coming from .

iboga · Feb 25, 2018

Serjo600 said:
If in doubt, it is better not to play at all

True that .
But you can only be certain when you are holding the nuts . There is always a lil bit of doubt and fear for me.not all the time but only when im in tricky spots.

AlfieAA · Feb 25, 2018

iboga said:
I often get that fear of loosing when I'm in the hand and I am really holding good cards but still beat by opponent.

So in a way it's trying to warn me. I believe it comes from the same place as your gut and 6th sense coming from .

yes, because we want to control every situation and to know the outcome in advance...aka anxiety..

probably because we were taught to always think about the future, instead of being grateful for having this moment.

TinkCzru · Feb 25, 2018

Do everything in position, and never be afraid to pull the trigger. Being willing to go all in on a draw heavy board with nothing, after betting it helps. It all comes down to bluffing well

Intellikill · Feb 25, 2018

Just try to make a read preflop and hammer it if you believe you are still ahead, I know the feeling your talking about and I say just forget the fear and play the game.

bablovod · Feb 25, 2018

Pokerguy6666 said:
Alcohol! (Vodka in my case)

Bravo, comrade.

RunoMont · Feb 25, 2018

fear?

I don't know if I call it fear. yes there is an excitement while making a decision. I just go for it and learn. when we get to play poker we come to learn and succeed. no risk, no pay.

dpoole71 · Feb 27, 2018

You cant have fear in poker your telling a story if your bluffing make them believe with your bets and actions never be afraid to pull the trigger

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