Rules

This should be on going and will be added to as needed. In no particular order.



1) Don't play when tired

2) Bankroll Management

3) Read number 2, errrrg!

4) Don't rush poker

5) Raise or Fold Bitches!

6) 400bb win stop



Don't play when tired:

I think this has the biggest impact on me. I don't have the ability to focus or except certain outcomes in hands. This also affects my ability to cope with re occuring losses through expected play. My being tired is in direct conflict with my ability to counter being tilted. The more tired I am the easier I am to be tilted. The more incorrect decision making I proceed to due which is directly related to my winning and loosing.

Bankroll management:

There cannot be enough stressed on this issue for me anyways. Mainly this means having enough money to play at a certain stake for me. This helps me when I loose a certain amount of money. As the money compared to the whole despite the amount helps my brain not suffer and become less focused causing my play to deteriorate. The real other motive of this rule is to have enough money to ride out the fluctuations that are going to occur through the statistical playing of cards.

Don't rush poker:

With the lack of time I may or may not have during a session. I tend to try and "push poker". The problem with poker is you cannot rush it. You have to let it take its course. Being in a rush causes me to become impatient. I start getting into a negative mindset. Which leads me to make incorrect choices in my play. Which in turn leads to mistakes causing my bankroll to go the wrong way.
Weather your going to get there or not, or your on your upswing or down swing. Your on a heater or your runner bitter cold. You just have to play. I didn't win this hand or the last one or the twenty before that. Thats just the way it goes, don't let it aggrevate me.
This brings to mind when I hear through interviews how so many profesional poker players state. "You have to love to play poker" At this point in time this means to me that you have to enjoy the playing of poker to be successfull at it. Nothing you can do will speed up your winning. Each hand must be taken one hand at a time. One session, one day, one week, month and so on.
Each hand must be played correctly. Don't try to make to much out of each hand and rationalize making bad calls despite the evidence that you are beat in the hand.

Raise or Fold Bitches!
In the kind words of WCGRider

"STOP calling with junk preflop, just stop it. There is only ONE spot you should cold call preflop, and thats with a pocket pair facing a raise. EVERYTHING else should be raise or fold (and a lot of folding). you are playing WAYY too many hands and you need to cut that down."

400 bb win stop

9/07/08

Until my play becomes more consistant my best results during sessions have been just over $20 winnings at the .02-.05 level. Sometimes I make it beyond this mark but gradually I lose this and continue playing to try and get back to that level of profit. I don't feel like I am rushing anything it just seems to be consitant. On average I lose half of what I have won early in the session. So to help put a stop to this. As I would stop after losing so much in one session I will implement this rule.