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There will always be a never-ending discussion about making the right decisions in poker, and how being consistently good at making right decisions makes you consistently profitable, with the very familiar caveat of long term profitability. When I say there are no rewards for playing perfect poker, I'm talking about short-term vision and results in regards to making the right play, and often seeing the wrong result. A lot of times it feels like there are no rewards for playing perfect poker, but it's the professionals, or top-tier players who implicitly understand that even losing a hand means in fact, you are winning. This is a remarkable distinction between a good and bad poker player. A good poker player does not rely on winning as much as he does in making the right play. A weaker player has a tough time comprehending that, and rightfully so - only because people, or society in general, expect to be rewarded for perfect performance. When it doesn't happen, the result is often a flurry of chat box insults or heated exchanges. Do you like football, baseball or hockey or any other sport? If you follow sports to virtually any degree you can comprehend that if a professional team executes a game plan perfectly, they are very likely to win the game. To not win a perfectly executed game, would mean the other team played even more perfect. Surely you know that this never happens, and it's more about the team that makes the least mistakes that usually prevails. You can be sitting at a poker table for hours in a tournament or a cash game, and go over every hand you are involved in and accurately say to yourself "I did not make a single error in this game." Yet still be stuck in a cash game, or not make the money in a tournament. In fact you can go numerous tournaments playing perfect poker and not make the money. So as you can see, we've been trained implicitly to understand that perfection deserves rewards, even immediate rewards. But poker is a game that quite rightly turns that about in your mind, to a point where somewhere deep in your ingrained thought process you realize there is a fundamental, contrariwise truth to what you have always understood to be correct and just, probably since your childhood. You can play a perfect game of chess and you know you can win 90% of the time. You can play a perfect game of tennis, and you know you are guaranteed a win. You can play a perfect game of John Madden football on PlayStation, and you know there is no way anyone is going to defeat you. All you have to do now, is disassociate this long held winning formula and realize that in poker, it's actually a conundrum and not a path to immediate resolution. Once you get past this, you be able to create a truly winning formula in your poker game.
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