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This situation happens to many poker players. They are in a very specific spot, manage to figure out the solution to the problem and know what they have to do and yet, they don’t do it. The hand ends and they are left thinking that they knew exactly what they had to do, but for some reason, they didn’t do it. The psychologist who specializes in working with high-performance players, Alan Longo 
According to Longo, it is normal to think that it is a self-control problem. But he argues that it is a problem related to what happens with your decisions when you are activated. Being activated means having your body and mind ready to act. Your heart rate starts to rise, you focus only on what is in front of you, and you prepare to make your move. It is not a bad state in itself, but it is bad for exercising patience. The simple fact of being in that alert state makes acting seem more urgent, taking away our time for analysis.
The really striking thing is that, according to studies conducted on different players, this changes depending on the moment. The same player can play more “impulsively” at night than in the morning. It all depends on the moment they are in.
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To control this, Longo recommends being attentive to identify the moment when we start to feel that urgency. It is not enough to know what is happening to us to correct it, but identifying it is a good first step.
“Every time you feel in that state, write it down. Write down how long you have been playing, what happened in the last hands, if you were winning or losing, how activated you felt, at what moment,” Alan recommends.
From these notes, we will be able to start finding patterns every time something like this happens to us and we can begin to work on it so that the states of our mind do not affect our decisions at the tables.
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