Luck and changing seats
Do people really believe that you make your own luck? I’ve always snorted at this sentiment: as if the cards will change based on whether or not I feel like I’m going to win. You hear people like Daniel Negreanu say “If you don’t feel like you’re going to win, you’re not going to win.” Being a logic-oriented fan of math, the human inside my human believes that the cards are coming how they are laid and that no amount of crossing yourself with rabbit’s feet or touching the doorknob a certain number of times before opening the door to the card room, or so on and so forth, is going to help you drag a pot.
At the same time, I sometimes catch myself getting caught up in the idea of editing my luck. In casinos I always like to sit to the immediate left of the dealer, which started because that made it so there’d only be one potential person at the table trying to talk to me, but also ended up being where I’ve won my biggest pots and had my best runs. I’ve been known to switch seats sometimes in the idea that a seat is ‘hot,’ but really all of this stuff is just what makes your brain ‘feel’ right. It’s not so much that you make your own luck as you have to be in the right frame of head to play well. If you’re feeling screwed before the cards come, a suited ace can look like the nuts before you even see the flop. So if getting up makes you feel better, if listening to one certain song on the way to the game gets you in a better mood, do it up.
Just don’t ask for a set up just because you can’t catch cards. Really. I hate that more than anything when a guy who’s on tilt cracks the dealer to waste the table’s time by forcing a new set of decks. Unless I have to urinate. Then, ok.
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