The irony of victory
August 26, 2009
You win a poker match and you pat yourself on the back. You are the victor among nine players at a poker player. You have multiplied your money by a factor of nine. You are on top of the world. But now what? You have won the poker game and you should celebrate and be happy. Fine, you can sit back and relax for awhile but at the end of the day, you are back at square one. At the end of the day, when you play poker once again, everyone has an equal stack of chips. This is the irony of victory. Although victory is temporary in poker, the only thing that you can bring to your next poker match is your experience of winning. Aside from that, you are back to square one.
So you know that your victory is only temporary. You know that the irony of victory in a poker match is that in the next one, no one knows that you are victorious. In fact, if ever someone knows that you won the previous match, all the more that these people want to take you down. There is a marker on your forehead saying “previous winner, please eliminate before this person wins again.” Being victorious in the previous poker match can make you learn a couple of things. First, when you win, enjoy it at that moment and then move on. There are much more battles ahead of you. Second, when you win, make sure you bring the valuable lessons that you have learned in the previous poker match.
What are the things that you should learn from victory then? First, you have to review how you took out your opponent in the heads up game. On a two on two match, you should review your strategy and find out what worked on whom. You have to review the way you took out your last rival. The heads up game is one of the most crucial parts of a poker match. You learn a lot from it. Although it may be weird to take down notes at the poker table, try to take down mental notes while you play. Make sure that you remember the good things that you did and the bad things that you did. If you remember these things then you will be able to become a better poker player in your next match. Instead of starting from scratch all over again, you have some experience that will allow you to take out everyone at the poker table all over again.
If you think that victory is a permanent thing in poker then you are very wrong. In poker, you have to roll the dice at the beginning of every game. Sometimes you will be lucky, sometimes you will not be so lucky at all. The only thing that will make you a winner is your skill and your experience. You might have bad nights where there seems like nothing is going your way. Even if you are playing like a professional poker player, for some unlucky people, you will not win at all. The catch is this, even if you are lucky, you are not guaranteed that you will win. You need to have the necessary skills to win a poker match. If you have won a poker match before already then all you have to do is try to remember what you did right.