If you think you're good, you're not

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Just reminds me of a guy who broke this trend you talk about and did the exact opposite, he complemented my playing by calling me a good player and asked if I had a coach. Now as a player who gets garbage cans thrown at me after people catch on and learn not all my hands are premiums. I can say this, some of us ,who are so called bad players, who play non premium hands, are actually better then average players who know how to read positions and act appropriately in check check check situations.
 
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  • #127
hello

I really don't think I'm a great player because of my results but I try to correct myself daily that's what this game is about, although yes, many times I let myself be overcome by anxiety and went beyond the standards of my bankroll I consider it a depoI don 't really think that I am a great player because of my results but I try to correct myself daily that is what this game is about, although yes, many times I let myself be overcome by anxiety and I went beyond the standards of my bankroll I consider it to sport you
 
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  • #128
DanielSnrL is right, regardless of the player being an expert, he doesn't do it better than you in the hand played, why not make a better decision than him at the moment and win the hand, reading is reading,
 
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  • #129
TCHUCO2005 said:
DanielSnrL is right, regardless of the player being an expert, he doesn't do it better than you in the hand played, why not make a better decision than him at the moment and win the hand, reading is reading,

Just make the best decision possible. Just it.
 
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  • #130
Absolutely true, no one is perfect and all of us has leaks . I am still a student of the game
 
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  • #131
"players that say they are good but never win are my favorite!" their pictures are on the side of TILT definition heh
 
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  • #132
eagleaces said:
How often do you see players talking smack on the tables about how bad other players play? I been playing non stop the past year and i found out some funny things. Players who put down other players play i find make the same mistakes and more. Players that say they are good but never win are my favorite ones and the topic. If you think you are a good poker player but you lose all the time, Then most likely your are not a good poker player. Are you that player or do you know that no matter how good you are there is always a way to lose. It took me a long while to learn not to tell ppl that im a good player cause why would you. Bad beats shouldnt hurt you if you got a Bankroll and a good head on ya.


You hit the nail right on the head, bragging players who think they know everything when they play Poker know very little when it comes to human psychology, and I find they are the ones most likely to go out early in most tournaments, and then blame it on a bad-beat etc.
Usually it has nothing to do with bad-beats, only bad decision's they themselves make, Poker is a fun game and as long as you treat it that way, by playing within your own comfort zone, and within what your Bankroll allows, you really cannot lose any of your own money, only other players money you have already won.
Keep playing for fun and enjoy the chase, but always remember---

When the fun Stops, STOP!
 
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  • #133
eagleaces said:
How often do you see players talking smack on the tables about how bad other players play? I been playing non stop the past year and i found out some funny things. Players who put down other players play i find make the same mistakes and more. Players that say they are good but never win are my favorite ones and the topic. If you think you are a good poker player but you lose all the time, Then most likely your are not a good poker player. Are you that player or do you know that no matter how good you are there is always a way to lose. It took me a long while to learn not to tell ppl that im a good player cause why would you. Bad beats shouldnt hurt you if you got a Bankroll and a good head on ya.
If you're good, needless to say... people will know that.
 
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  • #134
The more I play, the more I understand how much more need to learn. And actually it's very hard to change. Almost all notes that I made on people few years ago are still true and correct, so we all barely can change our game in fact unfortunately.
 
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  • #135
Not GOOD!

Today I was not good I played bad! Call all in with a small pair was still 4- players left to call me so I was call and I lost was not patient because I DONT play like that usually I was pushing my luck will go back to my old way! :confused:
 
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I feel in poker you can be a "real good player" in talent & potential, but still be a losing player. On the other hand you can be a average skilled player but with a lot of workrate & discipline, who will do better eventually. In other words: hard work beats talent.
 
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Lieutenant_OH7 said:
I feel in poker you can be a "real good player" in talent & potential, but still be a losing player. On the other hand you can be a average skilled player but with a lot of workrate & discipline, who will do better eventually. In other words: hard work beats talent.


kinda agree
 
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  • #138
I always think I am no good. Does that mean that I AM good? Or do I just think I am no good?
 
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  • #139
eagleaces said:
How often do you see players talking smack on the tables about how bad other players play? I been playing non stop the past year and i found out some funny things. Players who put down other players play i find make the same mistakes and more. Players that say they are good but never win are my favorite ones and the topic. If you think you are a good poker player but you lose all the time, Then most likely your are not a good poker player. Are you that player or do you know that no matter how good you are there is always a way to lose. It took me a long while to learn not to tell ppl that im a good player cause why would you. Bad beats shouldnt hurt you if you got a Bankroll and a good head on ya.
There is no such thing as the best poker player in the world. Everybody has good days and bad. Everybody experiences bad beat losing streaks. A good player knows when to take a break and get some rest--regardless of how well a player plays or bluffs I regard that ability is what distinguishes the bad from the good or even the good from the great. Best we can do is stake up and don't buy into games outside of our stake to buy in ratio, whatever that ratio may be. My ratio is extremely conservative, 300:1 and after almost a decade of playing at that ratio I've never come even remotely close to losing it. I don't know if that makes me a good player, but it makes me feel like a good player. And, on the site that I play everybody is anonymous and there is no chat, so nobody talks smack on the tables.
 
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eagleaces said:
How often do you see players talking smack on the tables about how bad other players play? I been playing non stop the past year and i found out some funny things. Players who put down other players play i find make the same mistakes and more. Players that say they are good but never win are my favorite ones and the topic. If you think you are a good poker player but you lose all the time, Then most likely your are not a good poker player. Are you that player or do you know that no matter how good you are there is always a way to lose. It took me a long while to learn not to tell ppl that im a good player cause why would you. Bad beats shouldnt hurt you if you got a Bankroll and a good head on ya.
Your post is very interesting. I fully agree. We need to have the humility to recognize that it is not punctual hands that make us good players.
 
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eagleaces said:
How often do you see players talking smack on the tables about how bad other players play? I been playing non stop the past year and i found out some funny things. Players who put down other players play i find make the same mistakes and more. Players that say they are good but never win are my favorite ones and the topic. If you think you are a good poker player but you lose all the time, Then most likely your are not a good poker player. Are you that player or do you know that no matter how good you are there is always a way to lose. It took me a long while to learn not to tell ppl that im a good player cause why would you. Bad beats shouldnt hurt you if you got a Bankroll and a good head on ya.
The funny thing is that this happens not only in poker. Apparently, people who exalt themselves can actually be very insecure.
 
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  • #142
Personally, in my experience, such talkers very rarely place high in tournaments, and mainly not because they play worse than others, but because they waste concentration and nerves on empty talk.
 
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so basically when phil says hes one of the greatest players of all time he's wrong ???
 
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Well, "If you think you're good, you're not" is a blanket statement, one so simplistic that's bordering on offensive.
 
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All newbies make that mistake by thinking that they already know how to play poker. Fortunately, playing On Line they are blocked and that's it.
 
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It may be true, but in my experience the guys who are overconfident for no reason often have suprisingly good luck.
 
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  • #147
just dont fool urself 😂😂😂and you will won't need to talk nonsense
 
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  • #148
I am not that good not to have to work. I live from work and playing poker only makes my life a little easier.
 
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There is another proverb. If you do not find fish at the table for ten distributes, then most likely you are the fish.
 
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When I learned to play poker at least a little, I feel a sense of laughter when an nl2 player tries to prove in the chat how cool and stronger he is than another))) There is always one question for such characters, if you are so strong what are you doing here? forward to the highest limits earn millions)
 
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