@Smartprofit "...To play poker successfully, you need to live a certain lifestyle..."
Source Post.The situation added there by the guy with a 4 in his nick is as it is, in fact and it is not good to say it but it is a truth in the history of poker and although extreme it is responds to your appreciation of the ideal of the lifestyle that you mention.
Poker can f`k** depending on your lifestyle but there is no standard in the logic of the outcome of the game that defines it like that, it all comes down to the two cards you receive.
The history of the game has a "Mr." who is not only a legend just because of his name, he is also a legend for developing a style of play, for being one of the first winners of a million dollars, for having won 10 bracelets, for countless statistics. and stories, but is the longest-lived and most successful player in the history of poker, Mr. Doyle Brunson spent more than 50 years playing poker at the highest level, he retired just a couple of years ago, without alcohol or drug problems and even an example of how you can play poker for many years and end up doing well.
That guy said that one of the best players he had ever met was Bill Smith who by the way won the main event of the 1985 WSOP, if you like poker you know that it is the maximum tournament that any professional player does want to win.
Doyle Brunson said that when
Bill Smith to play having a drink of whiskey he did not lose he was always the best player at the table, on the other hand and against position when he spoke of
Stu Ungar a genius of poker but destroyed by the drugs because of the same success he mentioned that he was the guy who when he played healthy was the best player in NLH so his skill in the game was unbeatable when he was healthy, in fact in his last main event that he won before dying he had detoxified just to play maint event, but ironically he dies a few weeks later when he was already rehabilitated, so many years fucking your body with drugs pass bills.
Man, I support healthy mind healthy life, of course, it is the way for any activity in our lives, I repeat again healthy mind healthy life. The previous examples are only contrasted to show that not everything you read is true, there are exceptions to it.
A person may initially have a very large supply of health. There are also people with a very balanced mental system. This is not their merit. They were born that way. They have such genetics.
However, if this is not the case, then you need to adhere to a certain regimen (sleep, sports, healthy eating).
In addition, your attitude to the game matters. A healthy fanaticism is needed here. A good poker player should know everything about the intricacies of this game. He must constantly think about her. Even when he's not playing poker. This is true not only for poker. In general, for any field of activity.
But for poker, this is as relevant as possible.
In poker, a minority of the best and most motivated players wins. The rest of the players systematically lose.
I'm not trying to be against what you say but in this new post you say things that interwoven read very beautifully, in fact I share some, but in the whole of the message, no.
A few days ago in another related post someone commented that he was a loser and like you generalized in that sense, in poker when you play for profit if you are a winner
1 several times, it is the icing on the cake.
The great secret to keep playing for many years, is to understand the management of your bankroll, then understand that in poker you lose systematically, so you understand at the end of the day what matters is to have a green ROI and that is achieved even having a bad day. Or better to say losing.
(1) In poker ITM is used to know how things are going (MTT, Sit & Go), but in the long run it can only be a reference to your cash, but even having a remarkable ITM you can be in losses, because or not you are literal a winner, that is, you do not win tournaments and failing that, you do not enter the Top 3.
Being a literal winner in the case of tournaments, making Top 1 (or at least Top3) is sometimes impossible, depending on the traffic of players that a certain tournament has and then you must classify the tournaments by the registration of players.
The question is very easy to explain, the more players a poker tournament has, the greater the variance, consequently your odds decrease and in that sense any player who pays a buyin can win any tournament.
For example, it is said in this sense that anyone can win a WSop bracelet but winning two makes you enter a select group, more than three you become a legend. The rest good or bad players try systematically.
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Now there are other types of games such as sit & go or cash tables, there things may have certain differences but the objective in the ROI is the same.
That if the essential thing is always a good bankroll to return tomorrow for another game then that way you learn to have the balls to call an allin of thousands of dollars or in the case of tournaments to call on the river when you are at risk. to get out of a tournament.
Poker is not considered a traditional activity and the most relevant thing for poker is always having a great desire to play.
