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Poker is an extremely competitive discipline that can generate certain distortions in the perception that players have of themselves. The fact of competing at the highest level and that their results, both positive and negative, directly impact their earnings is something that many professionals throughout the world must learn to deal with. Diego Ventura
When results define you
In the video that Diego posted on his Instagram account, he tells us about the process through which he managed to make the perception of his value as a person stop being tied to his results at the tables. This not only improved his self-esteem but also the way he related to poker. He went from playing with stress and a lot of pressure to playing more loosely, more relaxed, and with the focus placed elsewhere.
“My identity or my value as a person depended on my results. So, the results I often obtained or the money… I was using the money I earned to say ‘I am worthy.’ So I was tying my identity to something external to me and that was generating many problems and ended up creating an internal conflict because when I won I felt like the best and that made me take decisions from overconfidence and, sooner or later, hit the wall and go to the other extreme: not feeling valuable,” explained the best player in Peru’s history.
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“After having many doors slammed in my face, and also after many achievements, chasing rankings, looking for titles and all those things, I realized that I always ended up in a burnout, I ended up stressed, feeling a lot of weight and a lot of pressure. I didn’t manage to link that to success, but rather I felt that I was simply looking for more and more and more,” Ventura continued.
Finding your value outside of poker
“After some peaks of success I could feel a great void and that made me realize that if I continued like that I would always end up doing the same thing and that was not sustainable for me. So I started, gradually and through several trials and errors, to decouple my identity from the results. I started giving more weight to other areas of my life, perhaps redefining success and starting to see my qualities and my own value from a place that has nothing to do with my career.”
“I started using poker no longer as playing to prove something but simply as what it should be, my career, which does not define me as a person. Once I started making those changes, obviously I played from a calmer, more relaxed, more centered place and that allowed me to put poker in its place,” Diego concluded.
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