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Re: Impulse Control, Willpower, and Ego
 Originally Posted by daven
The last moments before going unconscious are interesting. The waking up even more so...It's like a version of holding your breath until you faint, but it has real consequences/risk. Aspirating has a pretty high rate of bad shit happening and will happen sometimes in this game
That's f'd up, Daven, but in an intriguing way.
Piggy, you will either (A) develop some poker willpower or (B) be VERY broke. I took poker 2 years as entertainment and blew through $300 at the micros playin' 60/40/4 screw-it-all poker. A year of that, I started working on my game. I still like to gambool, but most of my improvements have come from discipline-related decisions.
1. I learned to fold junk preflop (VPIP < 15 at 6max)
2. I learned to not chase when I missed the flop
3. I learned not to cbet EVERY time
I got disciplined enough to kill off the degen gambool-demons within when the pain of losing $$ became severe. Now that I'm an overall winner at poker, I still need more discipline to keep improving and moving up where (if I understand spoony's posts at all) I will need even more willpower and discipline.
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