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Ego on poker by Raul Mestre

Here is the latest poker article Raul Mestre has written to his weblog. Raul tells him of the importance of knowing how to control the ego in poker.

Well, first I want to congratulate the year. Thanks to everyone that you are losing your time reading what I write.

Today I will talk about a sensitive topic. It’s about the balance of ego / self-esteem that is essential to all poker players.

First, it is customary to say that the ego is very destructive to a poker player. The common reason we say this is because it is true in many aspects and tend to be dire consuecuencias spectacular. Level rises without respect bankroll image that it is better than it really is attack tilt destructive and accepting bad slumps are the most common.

However, the fact is that not everything is bad. Self-esteem is closely tied to ego. The desire to improve and exercise capacity, too. And all these ingredients, The race of a poker player is almost doomed before it began.

So it seems clear that there must be some balance in this. And I think that is easy to achieve, but certainly clear to me that it determines the potential of someone like poker player.

I suppose the problem is that many people when you play poker comes to take it personally, and she also feels the need to prove something to others. This, of course, is very bad. The point is that in poker usually have to obsess on further improvement to get really high.

How to get to keep the desire to improve, security in one self and slumps in mimsmo without letting the dark side takes control. And for this, imagine that you have to be clear about some things. The main one, is why you play and how you should approach this if you intend to earn a living at it. If you can not avoid the approach poker as a game and as a personal challenge in the sense that levels up or win in one session is your goal, you’re well screwed.

And I think that summarizes the issue: you have to have a different objective of winning. Your goal must be to improve. And improve it has nothing to do with levels up, or to win more short to medium term. You just have to do more to earn more in the end. Poker is a carrrera background, and only the best survive. If your goal is to grow personally as a player, you can keep your ego in check, as levels go up, jump on the bankroll and the like will only become a worse player. Obviously, consencuencias inevitable if you reach your goal will be to win big money because if you end up being one of the best in the world going to be lined. But if this is your goal, or if to prove something to others, you’ll have to fight with yourself besides your rivals. Quite difficult is poker itself to need to have to fight with yourself.

I know several players who could have gone much further in poker and whose personality has prevented. I think if they had focused all this another way, much more focused on learning and less on its outcome, would have fared much better. So if you take poker seriously and now, with the typical purposes of the new year have one in mind, my advice is simple: change your goals. Do not think about results, only learning. Be proud the more complex and profound are your thoughts about poker, and forget about win rates . I come alone .

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