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    Quote Originally Posted by wlmartin View Post
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    However confidence is often confused with arrogance (aka Phil Helmuth is a good example)

    It is a good player who is confident his pair of Aces on a low non paired rainbow board is doing well but still possibly weak to 2 pair
    It is a bad player who is arrogant into thinking that the same situation, nothing has him beat

    Confident players with the right skill can get away from a poor drawing hand or a made but weaker hand will go far in a tornament
    Arrogant players will often regardless of skill, make mistakes that depending on the situation will cost them a good size of chips or knock them out

    If you can be both types of players, this makes you a force and you will win multi million $$$ events however even the pros who can play like this Sami Faha is a good example need to be a lot more Confident than arrogant.

    Don't forget, luck balances outs more or less down the line
    Bad moves and poor judgement will get you possibly a few extra pots but you will lose a great deal more
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    Quote Originally Posted by bauss View Post
    Confidence is a key aspect of playing poker.
    I totaly agree with this confidence is key to playing great poker.

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    when your confident you know what move to make and you make it, when ur not you second guess yourself and fu ck up. Confidence is very important.

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    it sounds a lil wierd talking bout confidence when u talking bout a luck game. I think confidence would be a more important thing if we were talking bout sports. ..........O_o


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    I think confidence is important to keep other players from getting a weak read from you and then just running you over with their aggressiveness. You don't want other players to push you around because you are too scared to make a call on a big bet. But I also think you need to be humble and take your time to make good judgements on your play and to think clearly about your reads on others. Without confidence, you will only win a tournament if you get really lucky. And you will also be terrible at late stage tournament play where people loosen up and are much more aggressive.

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    Confidence plays a major part in tournaments. You start making bad decisions and bad plays when you are lacking.

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    Confidence or lack there of, is the number one thing that holds me back in tournament play. The number of times I used to notplay decent hands, or overworried about my oponents hands..... geeze. The converse is true as well, when I am on TILT it is usually because I have become overconfident.

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    Confidence is just believing in your play and not having to worry about losing a hand.

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    I'm confident that I am a donking machine, but I am curious to what wagon thinks though.

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    Confidence is key. Without it you may as well just play the slots and hope for the best. Either that or just stand at the casino door and hand out your cash to all that enter.

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