The strengths and weaknesses of our minds.And what they have to do with our success!?

Mind-set:
Do you keep asking yourself why would you call pre-flop a middle-strong starting hand
while you keep folding better hands?


Why if you drop your sandwitch on the floor you will just throw it away, but you wont go and buy a new one.The chance that you still want a sandwitch is enormous you have just dropped yours ?!
Everything hides in the human brain the fact you dropped the sandwitch drives you silently mad
you want to buy a new one but you wont cause the LAST DAMN ONE FELT ON THE FLOOR!


That happens in our dear poker world and we do the same crazy stuff that we will realise we did later on.


The human brain is programmed to memorize every good and bad feeling the cause of it.


Example: You are holding J5 and you are calling a hand that brings you J55 on the flop someone with A5 goes all in you call him and win a massive pot.


Without you realising your brain memorize the feeling of statisfaction you get from the J5.
On entirely diffrent hand you will be ready to call/bet/raise more then you should with this hand
and probly lose.

In order to be a successful poker player you need to take control over your mind and emotions.
Now dont lie to me and confess you did such things more then once.Oh yea you did.

Why when we are lossing our game is getting worse?
We are suppose to be more cautious , but oh no we arent we are mostly getting loose aggresive after a bad beat.

Take control over your mind !!!
Turn off the emotions !!!
Dont blame anything but, yourself !!!

Everyone feel like a great poker player always putting the blame over anything but himself.
The software , his luck , other players joker play outs , even the fly that keeps bumping in the window. Well my friend its all you!

Your job is to maintain a stable strategy , a purpose , an winning attitude!

Next time you are about to make a donk call just cause you feel almighty , just fold it.

This is a sport of the mind , not a bingo :)
And when you manage that ....

Survive

Watch the clip carefuly you may learn something about life ;)
Thats how a little push from peoples who have more then enough can change a life of someone
and give him the ultimate right that everyone should be born with and thats a normal life :)

1st Tourney

Ive started the series today with entering the deep stacked NLHE.
The tourney was actually going well but sadly with few major badbeats.
This is the hand that ended my participation in it :)
2 Team Pokerstar members fall out before me and im not sad with my results.
Cause this is the world of poker always ready to suprise you ;)

We are actually doing it !!!!

Hello everyone,
Thanks for the votes you truly amuzed me as we rank 1st on WBCOOP 2012 for now
you can fallow our progress here WBCOOP and vote if you like the post and you havent done so far :)
You keep them coming everyone got an e-beer from me for the support ;))

As an regular update ill add the tournaments of WBCOOP i decided to participate in ;)
Progress of each toruney and WBCOOP leader board will fallow here

Feb 23 - NLHE,BADUGI
Feb 24 - NLHE TS, 8-game
Feb 25 - NLHE(6max), NLHE
Feb 26 - Stud
Feb 27 - NLHE, NLHE Turbo
Feb 28 -
Feb 29 -
March 1 -
March 2 - NLHE deepstack
March 3 - Horse

Great news !!! WBCOOP 2012

First of all thanks everyone for the votes, im glad you liked my post. Keep them coming!

As of an regular update,

Ive got my entry accepted and im currenty ranked first on vote count at http://blogs.pokernews.com/WBCOOP_en/

which is success i havent really expected thanks to everyone (friends, poker mates and etc).

So, i already got the 10 tickets from the WBCOOP entry and ive already planned the tournaments to be played.you can check them out here http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/

Im mostly intrested in 8 games , badugi probly 5draw and rest will go on various types of NLHE.

Tournament schedule is staring on Feb 23.

I will update my results daily for every each of the tournaments of the WBCOOP schedule as my current WBCOOP Leaderboard points and rank.

WBCOOP 2012 The epic beginning of our poker blogging journey!

Yar,

My name is Radostin Minchev and this is the very beginning of my poker blogging journey.

A way for me to show you that the more you belive the bigger you can be.

I have started playing poker about 8 years ago when online poker was not that far from its  begining.

For years and years i have being practicing playing in freerolls in various poker rooms, i have faced many challanges and ive took many hard decisions , some times the right ones some times not that right to be choosen.

Thats what builds a poker mind-set in a player it also builds the courage the attitude and the skills desired to be a winning player in this world greatest mind challange.

And now to the main reason of me starting my poker blog.

             And thats WBCOOP 2012

My Poker Home since 2006 PokerStars is asking me what would i do with $5,000

Im living in a small country with economy close to a third world country,

since i have graduated school i have being trying to do something with my life.

I couldnt afford univeristy and i tryed to look around for a job with an IQ of 143

I couldnt find a job diffrent then construction worker and a barmaid for the summer season.

Then ive come to that "I need to do something not realated to my country economy its going down i wont go down with it." 

From the minor  salary i was getting as a construction worker i have put a part aside and after 6 years of online poker practicing i have made my first deposit and then my life turned 180 degrees.

Ive build my own strategy combining the expiriance that i had with some books about Hold`em including life action and interviews with major Poker Stars.

And that led me to building a bankroll and being and actual profitable poker player.

The only thing that kept me away from moving up the limits and take my poker career higher was that im unable to keep a big stable bankroll and participate in tourneys i belong too.

For the simple reason i need to withdraw my winnings to make a living , and this oppurtunity you are giving right now can help me be the person i know im supose to be , the player im supose to be.

Poker Stars gave me the hope and did what my home country couldnt , it turned my potential in profit.

Thank you , Poker Stars 

We Are Poker!

Great success ! 25 New Profitable Poker Players :)

Only for the last month i have introduced the poker as a way to change your life and
make a profit out of your potential to 25 new poker players :)

And now im happy to say that they are turning in profitable player who will soon be able to make a living
out of it. Congrats to all of you boys who didnt let me down and listened to every advice i gave you.
Keep improving dont think for a day that you are complete poker players there is always more.
More to read,adapt and more to lose and more to win.
Dont look back always look in the future as something better ;)

Passion

Cheers for our common passion and thats the most attractive mind challange of all Texas Hold`em

As i was abit busy lately i suffered every day away from it as i suffer when my girlfriend is gone for longer then a day ;)

However traveling around the country to solve my issues i had an intresting partner in my bag.

A partner who showed me that maybe i needed this time away so i can focus on him.

And that was the book my friend bought for me Poker Mind-Set by Ian Taylor.

The book it self can teach us not a few things that we cant just realise ourself or learn @ the poker tables.

I feel a whole bunch more confident at poker tables.I know how to discipline myself and learn that passion is a virtue.

Later on ill share some of my lately researches about poker and how this game should be called a sport instead of being considered as a gambling 

Cheers my friends ;)

Activity ;)

For my readers who are a little bit dispointed for my activity lately asking me why im not as active as i was in my old blog.
I would like to apologize for that and say that i didnt really had time since i had some really bad family drama.
I will start blogging daily as soon as everything gets to its happy end :)
Thank you all for understanding :)