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Our minds are complex. When dealing with issues, we draw freely on many different attributes, and employ them in varying combinations. If I gave you a series of numbers and asked you to add them up, you’d draw on your arithmetical knowledge. No emotional investment would be needed to solve this problem. If you turned on the evening news and film footage showed some 12-year old kid shooting up his junior high school with an assault rifle, your response would be emotional. You’d have plenty of targets for your anger, too. There’s the kid; that’s anger target number one. What about the ease with which these weapons can be acquired? They’re apparently so easily gotten that even a 12-year old can score. What about the parents? Can’t you direct some anger towards them for the abysmally poor job they did of instilling any morality whatsoever into their offspring?  You get the point. Some things are logical. Others grab you by the guts. Think of your mind as a computer. You can open a number of programs at once, and depending on your needs you can work with a word processor, a spreadsheet, a graphics program, and others. Whichever one you select comes to the front. It takes precedence at your command, sending the others into the background for the time being.  Isn’t that the way your mind reacts when you play poker? You sit down at the game and play correctly for a while. Then, for one reason or another — perhaps a bad-beat or maybe an unexpected win — your emotions come to the forefront push your logic to the back. Isn’t that why so many players believe in hunches? Isn’t that why they “...just have feelings” that the card they need will come on the river? Does it ever happen? Sure. If it’s a one in five shot, it will come once in five tries. No more, no less, over the long haul, and none of us can predict the future with any certainty regardless of what we may be feeling or hoping for at the moment.  I take walks whenever I suffer a bad beat or something that pulls my emotions to the forefront of my mind. I don’t like to play poker on emotion; I prefer playing on logic and whatever intuitive assumptions I can make at the time. Getting emotionally caught up in the game: needing to win so I can get back to even, needing to avenge some perceived insult thrown my way by another player, needing to impose the strength of my will on the entire table are things that invariably cost money.  online casino Back to casino news