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Road rage is a thing of the past - it's river rage that consumes us poker players these days

Whenever you sit down at a poker table there’s always one player who’s going to be trying their hardest to trip you up, take you down and make you look like a fool. The bad news is that you can’t escape them, because in fact that scheming Machiavellian genius is none other than you.
The good news is there’s a way to get around this evil part of your psyche. And no, you won’t have to enrol for the Ludovico technique. All your brain needs is some gentle persuasion, in the form of a hypnotherapist, who is trained to rewire your brain using neurolinguistic programming (NLP). It sounds complicated but it isn’t. All you have to do is to open your ears and lie back on a couch. Perfect.

Think for one second about all the bad calls and suspect moves that you’ve made – and I’m not talking bad beats – that’s an entirely different kettle of fish. If you’re being honest then you’ll accept that most of your memorable losses, near-misses and should-have-beens aren’t just down to the luck of the cards but to less-than-perfect decisions.

What makes it even more frustrating is that sometimes you even know that you’re doing the wrong thing at the very moment you do it. Why do this to yourself? Well, call it tilt, call it rage, call it a self-defeatist attitude – whatever you want to name it, this car crash state of mind takes over every player from time to time. And the more you let it affect you the more you’re going to see your bankroll end up in someone else’s. And you don’t want that. And we don’t want that. So let’s sort this out – a simple case of mind over matter.

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posted by Q Online  # 9:49 AM