The Most Expensive Pot You Ever Won
Poker’s Most Dangerous Delusion — and How to Kill It
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Then come back here for the written companion guide — your playbook to destroying the most expensive mental leak in poker: Results-Oriented Thinking.
The Emotional Trap: When “Being Right” Makes You Broke
You’ve lived this scene.
You make the disciplined fold with top pair. The story your opponent told makes perfect sense — he has it. He smirks, flips over a stone-cold bluff, and the table erupts. You feel the heat rise in your face. You feel weak. You feel stupid.
Or the reverse: you make a desperate, “heroic” call with a weak pair, and somehow — miraculously — you’re right. You drag a monster pot and feel like a mind-reading genius.
That emotional swing between shame and euphoria? That’s not variance. That’s the root of your worst leak. It’s an intellectual poison called Results-Oriented Thinking.
What Is Results-Oriented Thinking?
Results-Oriented Thinking (ROT) is the habit of judging the quality of your decision based solely on its immediate outcome.
If you win the pot, you assume you played it well. If you lose, you assume you played it poorly — or got unlucky.
It’s the default operating system for every “feel player” on the planet. And it’s bankroll suicide.
A PIPO Killer — a player who lives by Precision In, Profits Out — knows that a single outcome means nothing. There’s a massive difference between a good decision and a good result.
The Broken Clock Principle
Picture the biggest donkey in your local card room. The pot is $500. His opponent shoves for another grand. Our hero, holding seven-deuce offsuit, shrugs and says, “YOLO.” He calls.
By divine glitch, the opponent turns over six-five for a failed bluff. Seven-deuce wins the $1,500 pot. The table goes wild. “What a read!” “He’s fearless!”
But the pro knows the truth: this is one of the worst, most catastrophically negative-EV decisions ever made — rescued by luck.
A broken clock is right twice a day, but you’d never use it to schedule your life. That player is the broken clock. If he repeats that “winning” play a hundred times, he’ll go broke long before the free drinks stop coming.
The PIPO Creed: Process Over Outcome
From this day forward, you judge one thing only: the quality of your process.
- When you make a disciplined, +EV fold and they show the bluff? That’s a win.
- When you make a tilted, −EV call and get lucky? That’s a loss.
You are no longer playing cards — you are executing a process. The result of a single hand is just noise. The process is the signal.
Assassin Notes
- A correct fold is a win.
- A lucky call is a leak.
- You can’t control results — you can only control inputs.
- Discipline is profit disguised as boredom.
The Lie That Keeps You Broke
Results-Oriented Thinking is the cozy blanket that losing players wrap themselves in. It lets them justify their worst plays: “See? It worked!” It lets them blame variance for every loss: “I ran bad.”
It’s a prison of ego. But when you cast that blanket aside and embrace the cold clarity of math and process, you step into freedom.
Every decision becomes a business transaction. A bad beat is a data point. A lucky win against you is your opponent donating future profit to your stack.
You stop trying to “be right” once. You start trying to be profitable forever.
How to Retrain Your Brain
The hardest part is mental rewiring — training yourself to celebrate good folds and call out your own bad wins. That’s where structured tools accelerate the transformation.
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The New Definition of Winning
- You’re not chasing luck; you’re executing logic.
- A disciplined fold is no longer pain — it’s proof.
- A lucky call is no longer pride — it’s poison.
You are detaching your ego from short-term outcomes and attaching it to long-term process mastery. This is the mindset of a Poker Assassin. This is the transformation you came here for.
“A lucky hand makes you feel smart.
A disciplined fold makes you rich.”
— The Poker Delusion by Vinton Mojdeh
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Final Word
Stop chasing the dopamine hit of being “right.” Start building the discipline of being profitable.
That’s the PIPO difference: Precision In. Profits Out.
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