Superstitious habit

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What's your biggest gambling superstitious habit that you know makes absolutely no difference? 😂
 
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Folding the first hand 🤣🤣
 
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Mine is that I never leave the table when I'm on a heater. Even if I need a drink or a quick break, I'll wait until the run cools off. I know it makes no mathematical sense, but after years of playing it's become a habit I can't seem to shake.
 
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It's a psychological thing, not a magical one: these rituals help reduce anxiety, maintain routines, and get players into a competitive mindset, even though they know they have no real effect on variance or probabilities.
Examples include:
Using a card protector or a lucky chip.
Following the same pre-game routine before every session.
 
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Nameless14 said:
What's your biggest gambling superstitious habit that you know makes absolutely no difference? 😂
I don't have any superstitions. But I have habits, including bad ones. In particular, I smoke. And I never start a game if I have less than 7 cigarettes.
 
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I only have one poker superstition, even though I know it makes absolutely no sense. Whenever I'm involved in a huge pot and my wife walks into the room to ask me something, I lose that hand about 90% of the time. It's probably just confirmation bias, but after seeing it happen so often, I can't help feeling like it's cursed. 😄
 
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Auristic techniques exist and they work; they're not fiction; even try playing when you're well rested.
 
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Before playing online, I played poker at home with my friends, we all smoked, to keep calm, I discovered that sharing your cigarette with another player is not good. because everything will go wrong for you.
 
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