[liladypokerpro]

I saw an interesting program once. They took poker players (and I believe they did this also with blackjack players at one point) and placed heart monitors on them and watched their heart rates jump to near-stroke levels when faced with tough decisions or when they got a monster hand.

The fact of the matter is, even professionals get the jitters. The difference between them and us is that they have conditioned themselves over many years of practice to hide these emotions almost to near perfection.

This kind of conditioning cannot be achieved overnight. It takes a lot of strength and will power to learn to control your body's natural reactions to tension and stress. The only thing that any of us can do is simply force our will power to its very limits.

Ever hear the saying "Mind over matter?" Whoever coined that phrase was a genius...except he forgot one thing...he never mentioned the perfect way to accomplish perfect results.