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Questions about psychology in poker.

Questions about psychology in poker.

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How to deal with overcards in the flop

OK, so you've been dealt QQ and you're feeling pretty good about things and throw out a few BBs. Everyone folds but the villain. The flop comes and it contains a rocket. Whatever happens next, I always seem to get burned: It is slow played and…
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What do you do when you are running bad

I have been running pretty bad recently, I now feel that I have started to play worse as a result. What do you think is the best way to reset yourself so you can start to play better?
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Is Manipulating Your Own Table Image Beneficial?

There really are only two perspectives here to think about: Online and Live. In both scenarios you can alter what someone perceives about your playing style at any moment, but by how much? and how important is it anyway? Regarding online, there are…
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What time of day are poker players at their best/worst?

My thinking is that being in the UK I can play while it's 4am or something in America, so is there a guide as to when players will be more or less alert, and hence play better or worse?
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Research on the effect of a screen name or avatar in online poker

In online poker there are very few things you can bring to the table that will bring you some kind of meta advantage over the other players, in my experience there are only two, and on some sites just the one. The two weapons I'm talking about are…
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importance of psychological factors in poker?

I have been studying math poker for one year. I am not a regular (hold'em) poker player of course but so far I am interested in the importance of psychological factors in poker such as: fear greed respect insecurity etc... so far - looking at the…
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Prospect theory and loss aversion refuted by poker players

Daniel Kahneman proved that people are loss averse and got a Noble prize for it. However, as poker players know, that doesn't seem right. If someone loses, that person is much more likely to take negative EV decisions to get even. Or go up in stakes…
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Bad move/bet or tilt situation?

On an amateur site. Holdem NL. SNG with 10 players. Stacks 50/100. Initial stack 10000. Blinds double every 22 hands. At the beginning of the game (hand 4), I was on early position (next UTG), with AA. UTG limped and I bet 300 (3BB). Probably, I…
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How To Recognize Addiction To Gambling?

How to recongnize addiction to gambling? How to recognize when your bad plays are not due to tilt but addiction to gambling? What can be done?
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Is gambling disease common among poker PROs who don't play other games?

I've heard several stories of poker PROs and semi-PROs that developped issues related to gambling addiction. However, most of those often came related to other casino games like roulette. I'd like to know how common it is for serious, disciplined…
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Do you have favourite hole cards - and do these change over time

Bad as they are, I used to like playing Q8 off/on suit and more recently A & a low number card (say 9 or less) on suit. I know these cards are pretty raggy, but do any of you often find yourselves playing similar duff cards on the back of…
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mental hand history?

I just read "Mental game of poker 2" and in there it talks about a mental hand history and describes the steps to capture each "mental hand history". I want to start building a database of my mental hand history. I was wondering if anybody practiced…
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Advice for exploiting Sucker Reputation

I play in a regular cash game with pretty much the same people every week. I tend to play pretty tight and rarely loosen up, as the game is pretty crazy. It is typically not a problem getting money into a pot. Because I play pretty tight, and…
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Expanding my psychological game

Something happened in a tournament that made me think I can improve my game psychologically, so I'm looking for input. Setup: The hero in a live MTT, and had about 3x the initial stack size at a few hours in. The hero was not the chip leader and was…
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Fight, Flight, and Freezing At The Table?

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to ask this question since the issue seems so subjective and I have not found any poker-related material related to this issue. I'm talking about the fight, flight, or freezing at the tables. An example…
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