no results allowed

My friend and I made a prop bet that we wouldn’t check our poker results for a week, so I feel like I have nothing to write here. I guess that shows that I focus too much on results?

We made the agreement to not look at our results for a week both as a challenge but also because I really do believe it’s a good thing to do for all poker players. Never knowing results is probably the best thing you can do for your mental state, in my opinion. Checking results never benefits anyone but it always has the potential to damage the mental state in some way (whether you’re up or down).

The punishment is pretty funny for checking results too: we both picked a HU player that we really dislike and agreed that we would send that player $200 if we broke our promise. The awesome thing about this is that its barely any money, but the pain of giving cash to someone we dislike is enough to prevent us from doing almost anything. If you are a poker player, I recommend this for a prop bet punishment any day of the week 😛

I guess that means if you are the lucky recipient of a random $200 any day this week, you know I hate you. But who plays HU poker and doesn’t hate at least one player? No one, that’s who.