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Hey Greg, I am from the CT Area(Actually Shrewsbury MA) and visit Foxwoods on occusion. How often do you play there?

My question is, What has been the hardest part of their poker journey and how you overcame that to be successful?

Originally Posted by shrewsbury91

Hey Greg, I am from the CT Area(Actually Shrewsbury MA) and visit Foxwoods on occusion. How often do you play there?

My question is, What has been the hardest part of their poker journey and how you overcame that to be successful?

I moved to Raleigh, NC in late 2005, so I don't get to Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun very much anymore. I've been renting my house in Stonington (6 miles from Foxwoods) until recently, and am now selling it. Want to buy a house near both casinos?

The hardest thing to overcome is the negative emotional impact of running bad. Everybody runs bad at times, and if you play long enough, you'll eventually hit a period where you run bad for a LONG time (months upon months live, weeks even for a high volume online player). It is times like these that test your ability to continue to play your best game.

Unfortunately, I have no great advice for how to do this. Different things work for different people. My personal method is to just take some time, chill out, and think to myself if I should have done something different. If so, I can use this as a learning experience. If not, if I played the hand as correctly as I could, then I must remember that variance is part of the game, and I just have to continue to play the cards as perfectly as possible, and that eventually I will start winning again.

Later, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)