Reading "The Mental Game Of Poker" by Jared Tendler helped my game sooo much! I see you mentioned you read it so you might be familiar with a method he calls "Injecting logic"... When you endure a bad beat, take a breath and tell yourself that you made the right decision and it was a winning play in the long run. This will help clear your current frustration before it builds up and gets worse if you get drawn out on again. I know it sounds simple. But it's helped me clear my mind and stay focused. I don't let all the bad beats build up my anger.

“Injecting logic works best when: You catch the build-up of emotion, such as tilt or fear, before reaching your emotional threshold. If not, you have a major uphill battle to regain the ability to think clearly and play well without having to take a break or quit. Why? Once your emotions have crossed the threshold, it becomes harder and harder to think clearly. Injecting logic is really just thinking. Therefore, if your emotions have shut off your ability to think, trying to inject logic is the equivalent of trying to run on a sprained or broken ankle. Your logic also corrects the underlying flaw. The fastest way to resolve a mental game problem is by injecting logic that also corrects the underlying flaw that is causing it. Basically, you’re working toward two goals at once.”

Success is dependent on how you manage the variance. Keep injecting that logic and treat every single hand independently! Even when you're on an upswing, don't call your gutshots against the odds or call when you're blatantly beat on the flop trying to hit your 2 outer on the turn because you're "hitting everything" lately.

I tell these things to myself over and over and it's drilled into my game now

Thanks for this logic Really need to work a lot on my mental game.. The worst is my biggest leak in my mental game occurs when I'm running good and had a good session...

Overconfidence is really killing me the next day and I will start calling down TPTK no matter what. Somehow I can't give my opponents credit anymore when I had a good session -.-

So here my Update which due to a little hangover I wasn't able to post yesterday

The Day after my nightmare sesison:



First time I meditated before my session and it felt like this is the key to pokersucess

but the mental fish I am the next day I was way too overconfident and did not find a way to give my oponnents any credit...



Don't have hands I really want to get your insight on because most of the downfalls were pure monkeytilt on my side.

Maybe I should not play 5 days a week as long as I'm not really capable of it. Feels like I need another rest day inbetween even if I feel like playing every day is what I really want

I took 1 day off poker yesterday and 1 day off the tables today.

The reason for this was that I wanted to focus on off table work today to create a good foundation I can always fall back to when I notice the first signs of overconfidence or anger.

So what I did today was reconstructing my ranges from every position. Including opening ranges, cold call ranges, 3bet and 4bet ranges against unkown opponents.

I'm really looking forward to this week and maybe can't even wait till tomorrow to play again

Back in the day i 100% forced myself to play no matter how i felt. I just grinded my arse off.

As I got a little older and slightly wiser i only play when feeling great. I will not play hungover that is for sure and if i am just not in the zone i will sit out and go back later.