The Science of Poker Performance

[@GTOWizard]

What are your best tips for improving performance or controlling tilt?

[@ltisenotem]

Apathy

[@erdelymagyar2009]

Meditation

[@Serjrx1757]

Take a walk or break when tilting

[@RaskazFirundin]

''I review my play sometimes when i get coolered to make sure it wasnt my fault'' Dude i laughed way too hard on this one

[@DanDanOreo]

I'm a sport psychologist and I'd love to comment with some ideas on different things in this video.

[@DanDanOreo]

Regarding Yerkes-Dodson Law and The Zone - There's a nice theory called IZOF(Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning) which extends this idea beyond just stress levels, to all kinds of different emotions and other performance related experiences. Essentially each player gets to map out their own Zone of Optimal functioning through these different modalities, not just stress. For example - you might also want to be slightly angry, optimistic, feel satieted etc.

[@DanDanOreo]

Regarding tilt - It seems to me that tilt is the tip of an iceberg which can have many different underlying causes. Some of the things that come to mind for me is inquiring and self reflecting on topics such as motivation and perfectionism. On the motivational front there are two leading theories, one which describes the quality of motivation as being either intrinsic or extrinsic (in broad strokes), which is called Self-Determination Theory. The other theory is Achievement Goal Theory which separates between focusing on either your Ego (comparing yourself to others and equating winning to self esteem) or the Task (being mastery oriented and self referenced, focusing on the process of learning). Generally, those who are motivated intrinsically (engage in the activity for the sake of interest and enjoyment) and are task-oriented, are able to stay more resilient, avoid burnout, have less anxiety, and I assume, will also tilt less. On perfectionism - Though this is a topic I am less deeply familiar with, generally perfectionism can have adaptive or maladaptive facets. The adaptive facets will include aspiring to high standards and exerting effort, while the maladaptive facets will include being overly self critical to a point of self deprecation and maladaptive coping mechanisms such as avoidance strategies.

[@Tom_Bee_]

That was useful to me. Thanks!

[@titfortat5606]

Get your shit together!...if you have other things you should be doing/ have done....it will effect your game!

[@djStens]

So you're saying I can't get super stoned before every session

[@alienpoker]

“Simple board game” = Chess. Uh, said no one ever. Sure there are standard openings and clear principles but after that it gets complicated quickly. Nice video. Good food for thought.

[@B0bi_007]

A lot of the material in this video originates from Jared Tendler's TMGP book :) (wrote this before watching thru the whole video, see now that it is referenced :) )

[@GLGL88]

Huge thank you for posting this! As I am in the middle of a 10k downswing this month, the timing could not have been better to take a step back and analyse the mental side of dealing with the root causes of tilt. Self awareness (or lack of) is a common leak for a lot of players but often overlooked.

[@jeffblazeos4083]

Did you bounce back?

[@mplovecraft]

Thank you for this. After a couple of years of playing, close to a million hands and maybe a thousand of hours studying I'm fairly confident in saying that I'm a winning player. I have no illusions that I'm a great player, but I'm good enough. I really struggle with the mental part though. I don't tilt and punt my money away, but it flows over to the rest of my life to the point where it has great negative effect.

[@lilianelasserbe1437]

I know there are 2 major types of tilt in me: 1 - When someone comes to talk to me while I'm playing and I have to lose my focus to solve something outside the game. Luckily acknowledging this tilt helped me try to overcome it, but I still keep mulling it over in my mind instead of focusing on the game. 2 - When I face many consecutive lines that I haven't studied much. My mind freezes and at the moment I feel like the worst player in the world, even though I'm a winner. There's also another aspect that bothers me: Knowing that I'm on an upswing and not wanting to add volume because I know I'm going to lose soon. Thanks for the video!

[@ob105]

If you combine all those forms of tilt you get me in a mini Sunday main on GG

[@Liquorice38]

This is amazing stuff. The concepts are so simple yet often so overlooked by poker players, or at least know I'm guilty of it. More often than not, all we need to pull out of a shitty downswing (material and/or emotional) it's a hard reality check and this video does a wonderful job at it.

[@elwinvanwees8516]

I feel poker is one of the few area's in life where mental problems are not a taboo, but sometimes to study, work on and master.

[@Tom_Bee_]

I just registered for a game then answered my doorbell. Hung out in the kitchen drinking tea and eating snacks with my friend. Forgot the registration. Came back to the familiar sound of winning a pot. They'd folded to my BB. But the blinds are big now. I find two spots to shove. Once I bad beat AK and double up, happy days, then I run my still short stack into AK again and lose. I'm tilted now. I've lost hundreds doing this exact same leak 😂😂😂

[@honestlynate7922]

Mental health has everything to do with my ability to maintain my physical exercise and hearing you talk about how approaching the table with sound mental health and maintaining your bearing, really puts a few key pieces to together. I've been playing pretty damn solid lately and I'm doing pretty well for a low level player. I'm looking forward to learning more and I appreciate your efforts and I'll be more than happy to drop that subscribe after this long end over x comment

[@Serjrx1757]

Such useful tips, awesome video. Im floored on how much time you spend creating free content.THANK YOU 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@eazeazeaz]

Lately, I’ve been watching MTT pros play online sometimes just to remind myself what elite mental game looks like. I find that it helps me rationalize my “hates losing” tilt problem to watch someone world class play with an appropriate level of fearlessness.

[@ncannavino11]

your videos are so good, really something i aspire to. Thank you

[@jonathantolan3503]

The Mental Game of Poker had more impact on my game than any other poker book I've read

[@jarirepo1172]

Well we can say c-game is -2 bb, but then there is d,e, and f-game...

[@FCarraro1]

I have computer tilt: my computer freezes or crashes every time I have KK+ and it autofolds. No joke.

[@SmartAssBaboon]

This video is a Masterpiece... you definitely are some sort of guru!

[@normanatm7]

Good stuff. In general ego mind leads to under performance. I have found spirituality and psychedelics very helpful to understand reality and also play better poker.

[@Elusive-Moose]

Great video as always. Really appreciate your insights!

[@alexiscatley567]

These videos are so valuable. Keep it up brother

[@bigmacpoker3183]

the gym, good sleep and preparation, eating healthy

[@wesleycloos]

Another great one from Tombos. Really enjoy these!

[@pmanprays]

Thanks for another fantastic video!

[@DoubleBassX2]

Desperation Tilt... so that's what that was...

[@erdemtatar5583]

bol şans

[@alexandronohara4837]

Read books like TMGP 1 and 2.

[@mikeshaw6770]

Newbie here. What's TMGP 1 and 2?

[@alexandronohara4837]

@@mikeshaw6770 The Mental Game of Poker, Jared Tendler.

[@rnelsonendeavor3098]

Awesome content!

[@Michaelperry1985]

Excellent presentation

[@luckymaggie6594]

👍

[@KenpachiPoker]

How do i study when different solvers show different answers? How do I know gto wizards solution is the correct of the 3?

[@GTOWizard]

Wrong video. But to answer your question, the trick is to look at the big picture rather than memorize

[@Tom_Bee_]

So different solvers will output different paths to almost exactly the same result. The problem is complex, so depending on the Algorithm used there may be multiple paths to the same maximum EV. To summarise, they are all "right" and as Wizard says above, you're better off learning heuristics based on the solutions than memorising individual solutions.

[@adamsmith1207]

thx M8

[@ichigo4967]

i watch a comedy movie when im tilted

[@shtcoinmaxi1367]

Does that work at lowering your tilt?

[@shtcoinmaxi1367]

@Champion 😏😏

[@ryan-wc7wv]

Can we fucking do something about the rigged sites? 🤦‍♂️