Online Poker Anger - Keep it In or Let it Out
by Thomas Kearns
One of the advantages of online poker is that you don't have to contain your emotions. There is no one to react to your hysterics or to read your nervous ticks. You don't have to hide or be ashamed to express your feelings. You can swear, pray to God, laugh like a madman or cry like a girl, and there are plenty of things you can break or try to break without having to pay a fine (that is, if you are playing online at your own place).
The only thing that is off limits is your computer. Surely people and pets who share the living space with an online poker player have learned to give the player a wide berth. If they haven't got that message they ought to be fair game.
The advantage however is a tricky one and may turn treacherous and dangerous for your mental health. Many believe that containing your emotions is bad for you as a person and as a player: the more you abstain from expressing frustration, the more likely that accumulated frustration is to influence your decisions and might eventually result in a tilt.
When discussing emotions experienced during poker sessions, players most often mention negative ones. Recounting their "flashes of anger", of "blind rage", and of "going totally berserk," many feel guilt. They like to evoke the Japanese tradition of rubber dolls representing the management and officially serving as a means of alleviating stress.
Before we accept this solution wholesale, however, we need to recognize that the Japanese culture differs greatly from ours, and as a result psychological make up also is radically incompatible simple duplication. Despite the rubber doll stress relievers, and a very liberal view to things such as porn and simulated violence, the Japanese, especially in the marketing sector of the middle class have an alarming incidence of suicide.
So, when viewed through this lens, the soundness relieving our pent up frustration on inanimate objects can be called into question. Indeed, many trials lean to the conclusion that the violent expression of frustration is not a stress reliever, but the exact opposite.
It seems not unlikely that any rational person realizes that the actual cause of frustration remains untouchable and this may only exacerbate the frustration while the mechanical pounding of a rubber bag only encourages rage, rather than lift stress. Moreover, when the person expects to feel better after the procedure instituted by his superiors but the relief does not come, the person is likely to be even more frustrated.
When this is true in a poker player, it means that while thus variously and complicatedly irritated the player is significantly distracted from the game, possibly quite more so than if he or she did their best to fume quietly. Fear disrupts purpose and excessive joy disrupts creativity. In fact, any excessive emotion (as opposed to intense intellectual concentration) is intellectually incapacitating, especially in relation to the activity which engenders them.
To be able to contain anger (and we are not talking about "swallowing" lifetime frustrations like unfulfilled love or lack of appreciation) during a game should in fact be better and teach the player some discipline and poise in general. If it takes some effort at first, it should become easier and better for your health and career with a little time. If it doesn't, it is possible to take a break, quite the one worst game of your life or even stop playing poker altogether for a while.
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Title: Online Poker Anger - Keep it In or Let it Out
Author: Thomas Kearns
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