I was having a difficult time trying to find something to blog about.. But here is goes, I'll try and keep this short and sweet.

Type in PRIDE in your google tool bar. Click the first link (wikipedia), you'll get this:

Pride is, depending on the interactional and cultural context, either a high sense of one's personal status (i.e., leading to judgements of personality and character) or the specific mostly positive emotion that is a product of praise or independent self-reflection.

Pride and success in poker (or anything in life) simply do not correlate. Poker is a game of failure. A prideful poker is destined to fail. Lets take for example gboro780 (in light of the recent thread) and say that for an MTT player, for sake of argument, the goal is to cash in a specific tournment.

According to bluffmagazine, this "beast of a poker player", has cashed in 951 of 5501 tournaments played on pokerstars. That is a 17.29% cash rate. This means that the best player in the world is failing close 83% of the time.

While gboro is "failing" 83% of the time, he is the best poker player in the world and has been able to turn a 7 figure profit on the most popular poker site around. This poker player got over his pride long before his incredible success.

Poker is a game of failure. Mistakes will be made. Bad beats will be taken. Move on, lose your pride and get it better next time, and keep it mind "its just a game."
GL to all @ the tables.
-Matt