Originally Posted by
redietz
I know nothing about this, but I'll take a stab.
Mr. Mendelson, say you are playing hold 'em, and five times in a particular day, you trap some poor boobs one-on-one into going for flushes on the river while you have them beaten if they don't catch. You lose every single time. When the day is finished, you've gotten murdered financially, yet you did every blessed thing correctly.
Since there are formulas for determining what are the right poker plays, given that you can profile people at the table, you would have tested out as having, in terms of likely income, your best day ever. Yet you actually lost money.
Now, is it more helpful to your long term poker success to think that (A) you played your best poker ever or (B) that you played terrible and should play differently going forward? Which is the appropriate advice to yourself for future poker endeavors?