Does positive
attitude thinking help you at the poker tournament
table?
According to the
positive thinking theory, people can
create their own realities through their thoughts.
Last year when The
Secret was released,
a Rhonda Byrne documentary about the "law of
attraction", it immeditely became
on overnight sensation.
The Law of
Attraction.
The basic premise is that we attract the
things we want to ourselves with our
thoughts.
Is there any doubt that people who have
positive thoughts about their careers are more
likely to attract promotions and raises than those
who think of their work as an unpleasant chore? Or
that people who have upbeat, positive attitudes
about their fellow man are more likely to attract
friends than those who think everyone is against
them? Medical science has shown that patients who
think they will recover are more likely to do so.
Our thoughts unquestionably affect our world.
The law of attraction takes this a step
further. Our thoughts shape every aspect of our
existence. It isn't our boss, our family, bad luck
or the economy that is holding us back -- it's our
own thoughts. The idea is to awaken and take
conscious control -- choose what we want to be or
have. It's up to us to make things right.
Does the law of attraction work at the
poker tournament table?
If you expect poor cards, bad beats and
bad luck, does it happen?
If you expect good cards, hands that stand up,
and good luck, do those things happen?
According to the law of attraction, YES, they
do.
Let's see if we can apply it to poker
tournaments.
The law of attraction takes five steps.
Step 1: Know what you
want. Replace negative thoughts with
positive thoughts about what you want and you will
get those things. Expect good things to
happen to you. You will catch good hole cards. You
will hit the flop. You will trap the raiser.
Step 2: Think big.
Decide what your goal is. Ignore the
roadblocks and think about what you want.
Concentrate on the goal and the steps to get
there. Write your goal on a card,
and keep it with you. This will spur
your your subconcious to influence you toward your
goal. You will make the bubble. You will make
the final table. You will win the tournament.
Step 3: Clear all
negative or limiting beliefs. Once you find a
negative belief, confront it. Clear it from your
mind, and replace it with a positive thought, one
based on the idea that you are capable and worthy
of achieving your goal. Replace "Poker Lotto
players get lucky and beat me" with "Poker
Lotto players are losers and when I beat them I
get their chips". Find other examples of your
negative thoughts and then find a positve
thought to replace them.
Step 4: Feel what it
would be like to win the hand, the table, the
tournament. Visualize it. Feel it.
Sense it. Visualizing your goals and desires can
set the process in motion, and create
reactions that can help you get what you want. If
you look like a winner, then you must be one.
Other players will pick up on this, and may avoid
playing against you.
Step 5: Let go as you
act on your intuitive impulses and see the
positive results. Put it all together at the
poker tournament table, and let
your subconcious instincts work for
you. Play the hands with the confidence of a
winner (unless you are trapping, of
course)
When you play poker, maintaining a confident
positve demeanor will improve your play. Other
players will sense this about you and respect your
game when they play against you. If you come
across as a skilled and savvy player, you will
certainly do better than if you are perceived as a
weak and inexperienced. Playing scared will not
win a tournament. Playing confidently will!
Does the law of attraction work at the
poker tournament tables? It just seems
like common sense to me that it will. Find out for
yourself by trying these steps. And let me know
the results.
Email me with your thoughts, and I will post
the best ones here! DoverPro
