The thing about superstitions is that if they help, they help. Provided your superstitions don't involve something like a paralytic fear that all cats are familiars of Satan, most superstitions are harmless enough.
Here's mine: I have a particular pair of socks that help me play poker better (I'll be wearing them later today, the tourney starts at 7:00). It doesn't matter that the socks have no magic powers - when I wear them, I'm more relaxed, I have fewer tells, and I'm less likely to bet rashly. I know precisely where this superstition comes from; I won a packet while wearing them six years ago. If I DON'T wear the socks, I'm nervous, I make stupid bets and take stupid draws.
*shrug*
Boru
Here's mine: I have a particular pair of socks that help me play poker better (I'll be wearing them later today, the tourney starts at 7:00). It doesn't matter that the socks have no magic powers - when I wear them, I'm more relaxed, I have fewer tells, and I'm less likely to bet rashly. I know precisely where this superstition comes from; I won a packet while wearing them six years ago. If I DON'T wear the socks, I'm nervous, I make stupid bets and take stupid draws.
*shrug*
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
