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Re: Pittsburgh Recap - long reply per usual
Posted By: neilkaz In Response To: Pittsburgh Recap - long per usual (Stick)
Date: Thursday, 22 February 2007, at 3:46 a.m.
Stick wrote:
"The biggest blunder. Here's how it went down. I felt I was playing reasonably well, matches to 13, I had worked my way up 10-6 in the first match. Thing is, when I went from 8-6 to 10-6 and wrote down the score for some reason it triggered me to think the match was to 11 even though dead in front of my face I had written 13 on the scoresheet. I took the cube off the board and I played the next game thinking I was up Crawford -5 away. I was making some bold plays and I reached many positions where my boldness had payed off and if the cube had been alive I'd have been far too good to double anyway. Bearing in against a 2-3 backgame I threw the only number that left a shot, 6-4. Then my opponent hit of course. After that he starts thinking. He doesn't have a perfect board but enough to contain me and when I see him thinking I ask myself "What the fuck is he thinking about? He hasn't rolled yet, it's Crawford, he can't cu..." And then it hits me. I realize the entire game I'd been playing like it was a different score. Who knows how the game would have went down otherwise. Maybe I'd have doubled at the right time and he'd have taken and I actually saved myself a point? Maybe I had a cash? But I was certainly too good for quite some time. My checker play was much too bold though since I had the wrong score. I'd imagine my error rate for that game came in around 123957129034875210934875209348752093487509234875230947.2
After that I'm not sure how I played the rest of the match. Tried to put it out of my mind because like I said, it could have actually saved me a point, but there was no denying my fuckup and that kind of shit pisses me off. I ended up losing that match @ DMP. DMP #1 of the weekend that I would lose after practicing them all week long it seems that the practice didn't help."
Neil replies:
When you see my score sheets for important matches I often have the length of the match written in several places and even spelled out ! This has saved me from a couple of ditzy moments (yes greying old men can be ditzy) over the years.
Much more important is the following experience learned from the trading floor which when applied will toughen you and others up and should result in you having far fewer emotional and mental lapses. All you must do, and it ain't so easy, is to learn to blank out the fact that you just realize you fucked up horribly five seconds ago and it has bitten you in the ass. PUT IT OUT OF YOUR MIND AND PLAY THE REST OF THE MATCH AND THE TOURNEY (be it BG, poker, or whatever) TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY. The following is not quotable but I did this about 15-20 years ago when I was a bit (well maybe) more crazier than now.
I had really butchered at least one game(checkers/cube/play on decision etc) vs someone who was being a jackass and whom I didn't particularily care for even prior to the match (and I like almost everyone..so as my Jewish friends say, this guy was the reason they invented the word "PUTZ" !). It was winter and I went outside and rubbed snow on my face and forehead to try to wake me up, but when walking back into the hotel I still didn't feel like I was alert so I went back outside and grabbed a big handful of snow and stuffed it down the front of my pants and came back in and crushed my opponent. Oh..I was living in San Diego back then and trust me when you leave So. Cal and end up with wet frozen nuts you aren't thinking about your last BG fuckup.
Most likely you won't have to go to this extreme and since I have become so toughened to trading I don't have to either.
THE MIND CONQUERS ALL FEAR AND EMOTION...your's will and can and I'll be watching you make millions on the World Poker Tour then.
.. neilkaz ..
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