My latest poker strategy article is now appearing on Cardplayer.com. Entitled “Own Your Bad Play“, it’s about how to make the most of your mistakes at the table:
When you make an uncharacteristically bad play, you’ve given your opponents misleading information about what to expect from you in the future. Probably you paid far too high of a price compared to the value of misleading them, but that’s neither here nor there. The price has been paid, so you might as well make the most of it.
Instead of ruining this silver lining by hastening to correct any misconceptions and provide your opponents with more accurate information about your game, devote your energy to thinking about how whatever just happened will affect your image going forward. This has the added benefit of reducing tilt by giving your mind something to mull over besides how you wish you hadn’t just done that.
Have your mistakes ever come back to help you in the end? How do you handle it when you show down a hand that you played in embarrassingly poor fashion?
Read it … good stuff again foucault .. GL