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Message: [QUOTE="finaltable1, post: 4772609, member: 187503"] I've started playing poker because I've learned the theory and received free starting bankroll for that. It was long time ago. One of the important psychology lessons in poker theory course was about discipline. Both financial and psychological discipline. - Banroll management is simple... 3% of all money for all cash tables, or 1% for all tourneys. If bankroll is going down, you also need to step down on your cash tables limits or tourney buy-ins. - Psychological discipline isn't that easy, but it's not too complicated. At first you have to sit to the tables with a simple idea in your mind that you've already spent these money, they aren't yours since you've bought chips. These money belong to the table or to the tourney. What you can do is to try and pull out your share of the total. You must have rules for each table, for example you can leave the cash table after double or triple up. AND YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR OWN RULES. Don't stay there because there is a juicy fish with x8 buy-ins... Casino needs rake and that's the reason why your AA will fail at important moment, cause rotation of money guarantees rake, you have a bankroll, but fish probably plays for last money, you may think that RNG has no feelings about bankrolls, but for some reason, specially for preflop all-ins, the results are often terrible for your AA vs some KQ. Don't speculate! - Another psychological advice is to have discipline outside the table and away from poker in general. Sport is a good method. Bodybuilding is a good option during poker sessions. You can perform excersises during your breaks. Sport requires discipline, poker also require discipline. One helps another. - One more thing... If you're having a black line at PokerStars and want to take a break, you can always play a PartyPoker or ACR. Learn the word DIVERSIFICATION. You can split your money between several pokerrooms and enjoy black or white lines by testing your luck in each room. - And the last thing... When You're playing 8-12-16 cash tables at the same time and play tight, in such case luck factor is reduced to minimum and you'll have action hands more often. It's hard to play 8-9 tables at the same time, that's why to learn to play 9 tables you need to play 12-16 tables for several weeks, it might be playmoney tables or freerolls, you just need to focus on large amount of information and act rapidly. When you'll spend 3weeks of such chaotic 12 table gaming you'll get used to it and will start acting normally. This is the time when you're stepping down from 12 tables to 8 tables. What happens? You've got that OK feeling for 12 tables, it was hard but you managed to learn hot to play well at 12 tables, now when you're stepping down to 8 or 9 tables you will be surprised, but your mind will think that 8 tables is BORING. You will have more time for better decisions than you had at 12 tables. It works. Playin poker is playing mind games. If you're overloading your mind with foolish expectations, hopes and failing decisions then mind needs a break from such cr@p to restore it's normal state. In case if your personal code of conduct is designed in flexible way that simply does not allow tilting, then you won't have to take breaks because of multiple bad beats, instead you'll be taking breaks to have the time to spend your winnings. Good Luck [/QUOTE]

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