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No Limit Holdem Tips around My Methods and Experiences

You're driving along in your car, a brand new BMW, on a sunny day, and you can even hear the birds singing because you're cruising with the top down.

Suddenly the oil light starts blinking. Do you get it fixed? Perhaps you could go on for a bit, you think, it feels fine. You're driving and everything is going nicely when suddenly the car dies.

When you get it to the shop, it appears that the impact was a lot more than you thought. If you had brought it in earlier or checked it out instantly, you would've saved yourself a lot of money.

Same goes for players when they are chugging along playing. They get a beat and get a bit hot, but everything is fine they say to themselves. A short amount of time goes by and they realize they've blown a few buy-ins because of bad decisions that came about because of bad judgment that came from a bad emotional state and this is what I want you to avoid by reading these no limit holdem tips.

If I start feeling the slightest bad feeling in myself, I sit out, or quit. One of my favorites is to start doing a breathing exercise while I am playing, put all of my focus on my breathing, and even counting my breaths.

If you have a voice in your head going on about how bad you played, or whatever, then just turn the volume down. You can actually do that, and if you think I'm crazy because I am suggesting this, then the answer is Yes, I am, and I've worked hard at it.

This is, by the way, what Neuro-Linguistic Programming is about. I do not always succeed in quitting or neutralizing my state, but that's just how it is sometimes. I am getting better every day, and as long as I am doing that, I feel good.

How Do You Apply All This?

It's not what you know, but what you do with what you know.
- Unknown

How can you actually apply all these no limit holdem tips I keep throwing at you? I'll give you some helpful hints that will help you along the way in these texas holdem poker lessons!

Start with having a piece of paper handy when you are playing, and every time you have a negative emotion rise up, notice where it is in your body, how it feels and preferably how it comes about and what causes it.

Practice Makes Perfect

The more you do use this no limit holdem tip, the better you will become at identifying your states, and you'll start knowing when you are fit to play and when you aren't, and this will make a huge difference in your game. And also start trying new things out, like how to neutralize these states. Use breathing exercises, yoga, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, walking around, watching a movie or whatever you prefer. Try everything and see what works. That's my philosophy.

Another cool thing you can do to eliminate the bad feeling is to focus on a good feeling, or imagine something in your life that makes you feel good. Whether it is in your past, present or future doesn't matter. As long as it gets you feeling like you've just taken a lot of stuff that makes you feel good.

Notice where that good feeling is, where in the body it is, and in what direction it’s spinning. And after you've done that, spin the feeling faster and faster, and the feeling will start getting more intense.

Notice what images you are making in your mind, and try things out. If I make these pictures bigger, brighter and step into them more, it intensifies my feeling. Try making it bigger and smaller, in color or black and white, and see what makes the feeling stronger.

Now notice what sounds you hear when you are imagining feeling good, and make the sounds louder or smaller depending on what makes you feel even better. You can also do the opposite with bad feelings, by noticing where the feeling is and in which direction it is spinning and spinning it in the opposite direction.

Throw the image away and put in a better one that makes you feel good. Turn down the volume and put good stuff in. It's that simple, and though most never even consider this to be possible, it’s your mind, you can do what you want with it. Remember to have fun!

Making Specific Rules

This is very important and is the point of this whole no limit texas holdem tip article. If you don’t have very specific rules, you will try to talk yourself out of using them, and this is especially easy if you are in a bad emotional state after a few beats and you just want to continue on.

When you've written down what emotions are bad for you, like frustration, anger and the like, promise yourself that every time you start to get any of these feelings, you will either take a break or quit.

If you find yourself being able to talk yourself around your rules, then you aren't making them specific enough. If X happens, then you stop––keep it simple so you can spot easily when to quit. For example, if you start noticing yourself talking yourself around your rules, then you should probably quit. That could be one rule. Example of rules:

1. If I start getting frustrated and feel the bad feeling in my chest (where I feel it) I take a break; and if it doesn’t go away, I quit and come back later.

2. If I find myself talking around my rules, then it’s okay, I am okay, because I can handle these emotions, but I will take a break and quit if it doesn't get better.

These are rough examples, but remember to come up with your own. If you can't come up with any good ones off the bat, then just write something down and make them better after each session you play.

It's up to you how good these rules will be and how much help you get from these no limit holdem tips, especially in the beginning, as they will do a lot for your game if you can keep yourself from playing when you aren't playing well.

And remember to keep your rules specific so it isn’t as easy to manipulate them. If you can apply these no limit holdem tips that you just read in this article, I promise you, it will make a BIG difference not just in poker, but in your life as well!

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