The Crunchy Cheeto Theorem

As tankers mentioned, this week has been slightly less than stellar...

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HA! Good one!

Let's be frank. It sucked hairy man-balls. Personally I hit a -13BI-ish downswing in the range of like...6k hands. It was a rather steep fall from grace.

"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name (woo hoo)".

I find that when you are upswinging or downswings you usually aren't playing your best. Sure, both often have a large influence from Lady Luck, but often the mere fact that they are happening causes you to not play your best(and subsequently affects your win-rate, which affects your swings, which affects your play, which affects your win-rate, which..... you get the point).

Let's say you are on an upswing. It's pretty human nature to get a bit of an ego about it.

"I rule. I can just beat these games without an troubles at all"

"I can do this crazy move. I'm threads13 dammit!"

Of course, being human is no excuse to act like one. :) The ultimate result is you change your strategy for the worse.

On the flip side of the coin is the downswing.

"I fail. I fail at life. I fail at everything I try. Please hand me my beer."

"Any move I choose at the poker table will be wrong. I'll just do this random thing differently without any thought whatsoever as to why I'm changing it."

Is there anything good that can come from this? I think so. A downswing always makes me reevaluate and reset my mind. I have a tendency, and most people probably do this, to ebb and flow with doing the right thing. Let's use diet as an obvious example. You star the diet off on Day 1 strong. You eat only great food and you are feeling like a sexy beast. This usually goes on for some random period of time that varies from person to person and then you add in a little bad. Maybe you eat some ice cream. Then the next day you add in some pizza. Then the next thing you know you are sitting with a beer in one hand and a bag of Crunchy Cheetos in another. Once you have the Cheetos in your hand you realize that you've gradually taken a turn for the worse and you need to reset. I dub thee "The Crunchy Cheeto Theorem"

We learn from our mistakes. Falling down is inevitable, Neo, and the only thing we can do is control how hard we mentally fall and far down we go. Playing bad is part of poker. Making mistakes is part of life. Learning from it all and not repeating them is the only thing we have control over.

Crunchy Cheeto Theorem

True Story.