Do you want to make more money at poker? If you do, you’ll have to change how you think about the game. Why? Because everything else flows from that. Your strategic and tactical decisions all arise from your thought processes. If your thoughts are contaminated with wrong ideas, bad decisions will result.
Out of the countless ones we could discuss, let’s arbitrarily pick three false ideas common among poker players that you should immediately banish from your brain.
1. “I’m on a losing (or winning) streak.”
Nobody has ever explained what is wrong with this line of thought better than Tommy Angelo, in his book Elements of Poker:
All of my good streaks and all of my bad streaks of every length and depth have had one thing in common.