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Message: [QUOTE="LarkMarlow, post: 1305941, member: 57665"] [COLOR=black]I've heard a number of pros say that if you aren't getting bad beats from time to time you aren't playing poker properly. While in my mind I know that’s true, they still sting and often stay with me for a number of hours or even a day. No amount of telling myself over and over that I played a hand perfectly reduces the powerful feelings of disappointment and, yes, sometimes outright disgust. The same holds true when other people try to assure me by saying the same thing, even when they back their words with substantiating odds. [/COLOR] [COLOR=black]I’m been slowly coming to a place of actually accepting, as opposed to fighting, my internal emotional responses to poker outcomes. In the process of working this through, I realized that when I'm the person who lays a bad beat on someone else the opposite feelings of near euphoria stay with me for a number of hours or even a day too. My conclusion: I can’t have one without the other:).[/COLOR][COLOR=black] My psychological nature is such that I will never be someone like Chris Ferguson, who is so objective his PR people had to tell him that when he won he had to show happiness for the cameras, nor do I aspire to be.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black][/COLOR] [COLOR=black]In the August 18, 2009 issue of Card Player magazine, Matthew Hilger addresses this issue directly in an excellent article titled “The Emotional Paradox of Poker”. His writes that “It is OK to get excited when you win a pot, and it is OK to be disappointed when you lose one—but just make sure that your emotions don’t interfere with your decision making.” I have a long way to go on that one but at least I’ve learned to take a break after a big bad beat, even when I’m on the winning end. The reason is I've learned in my case that extreme emotions either way lead to reckless play. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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