MISCLICKED MOMENT - "Poker Self Destruction Online"

Hearing often players saying they have misclicked during an online poker game, I often wondered how players could make such a destructive error.

I finally experienced the misclicked moment myself online, now knowing the gut wrenching feeling I will be completely understanding to others that experience this self destructive error. I now completely understand the chain of events that may follow due to the emotions of the misclicked error that set in.

Not only did my error cost me greatly in my ring game, it also cost me my poker tournament chips and nearly cost me my other game as well. At the time of my fatal error I was happily in three poker games, a ring game and two deep tournaments. I was cashed up in the ring game nicely and sitting well in both tournaments. My mind was set on the job at hand and felt pretty confident I would pull off a fine poker performance.

Then out of the blue it happened! With me clicking the all-in button instead of fold, player instantly calling and bye bye healthy chip stack to zero in ring game. As I’m dealing with this emotion my other game pops up with medium pockets, and what do I do? Go all-in of course causing a chain reaction and eventually out two players before the money. Desperate to recoup my losses I sank deeper into my last poker game I was left in. Placing second sure helped my bankroll.

What did I learn from this? Make sure my games are spread out and not on top of each other. Also control your emotions.