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Message: [QUOTE="Rational Madman, post: 3929559, member: 227817"] If you believe that every decision you make results in either profit or loss, you begin to be happier overall. Let me explain something; if you need 'risk' to get a thrill then you are mentally unhealthy in the first place. The risk should cause you anxiety and unhappiness, the profit should be what gives you the joy. You need to enjoy good folds as much as good wins and this is why when people say 'don't try to not lose money try to gain as much as you can' I always say it's one dimensional thinking. You need to thoroughly enjoy every moment of the game where your losses were mitigated and/or your gains were maximised (if you made a tight player fold a better hand at the same time as getting a looser player to pay you off, this is both at the same time which is why it's and/or not just 'or'). For me, this also why I don't believe in multi-tabling more than 5 tables. You need a momentary pause to literally FEEL the joy or pain of a good or bad move. For me, tournaments teach you to not enjoy a series of good moves unless you end up making it to ITM at the very least, so all the time you spent playing well up until your cooler hand or bad beat amount to zero joy and just unhappiness. Consequently, you also end up unable to fully suffer through your bad moves as if it ends up with you winning the tournament and even worse if it it fairly certain that without that bad overbet you did that you'd have never got near first place, then you end up enjoying what you should be feeling unhappiness towards and learn to avoid doing. Tournaments put you in many, many situations where you end up thinking 'even though this is a dumb move, it may be the only way I survive' whereas in cash games you always can afford ot leak some blinds if it's irrational to engage the opponent in that scenario (especially if your BRM is good). Less anxiety, more direct emotion-to-result correlation and most importantly the ability to freely risk losing chips early on in your session if the situation seems right to profit you. I have genuinely tried tournament grinding and it simply is terrible for my mental health. Makes me paranoid and severely unhappy overall as I feel my profit is far less to do with my actions and far more to do with getting lucky later on rather than earlier on in the tournaments (this is a fact not an opinion whether you believe in luck or not). [/QUOTE]

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