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[QUOTE="tommy angelo, post: 1765079, member: 37033"]
Lol!  Great advice!

You might as well have asked "What is the meaning of life?"

I think of "getting too spewy" as the crux of the game.  It's the only thing that separates me from players who are equally skilled at betting.  Controlling my own spewyness, and exploiting the spews of others, combined with some decent poker talent, is how I made my living.

These days when I play, my self-awareness remains at a fairly high level, which means that when the spewy demons show up, I can see them coming and usually keep them from doing damage.  My main action to resettle myself and my game when I've done a little spewage is simply to tighten up fast and hard, right away.  Sometimes right in the middle of the same hand that started with some spewage.  It's like snapping out of a dream almost.  I've been through that little cycle thousands of times so now I just know the drill.  But it always takes a spark of awareness.  I have to know I have spewed, or might spew, before I can flip my little switch that shuts it off cold.

That's a huge part of getting to the bottom of it and developing your own in-game correction methods.  Find out the causes.  In your case because you know two of them, you could start thinking of learning patience as a new hobby.  Patience everywhere.  Patience in line.  Patience in between poker hands.  And trying to win every pot.  Let them go.  Let them go.  Let them go.  Know before you sit down that you will lose lots of pots, million of pots over your career.  It's your life, losing pots.  If you can ever really accept that and actually be happy with it, it will cut down on some spewage.

Tommy
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