Back to Back Gross
Sigh, when they come they come together, it’s always fun:
Here’s evidence to why when you play a hand bad and you are feeling dumb or angry about it, you should quit and wait for a more level headed time. I can’t tell you the amount of money I’ve spent after playing for weeks of excellent poker, getting into a funk and messing up.
Here are two hands I played tonight in a bad mood when I could have walked from the table and kept my money ok.
In this first hand, I hadn’t had a hand in forever, got QQ a few off the button, raised, got reraised, and another player reraised all in. An easy fold really, and I said aloud, ‘I am against kings or aces, fold.’ Then proceeded to disregard myself and call all in, to of course KK (though they player who’d gone all in had 99). Bad play, I should have quit after that.
The next hand I didn’t quite play bad, could have folded preflop with a suited ace to a raise against my limp, but was kind of annoyed after the last hand, called, saw a flop with nothing in it, the player who’d gone over the top with 99 last hand bet 2/3rds of the pot, I angrily called him thinking my Ace high could be good, the next player reraised almost exactly the minimum.
I can almost never make myself fold to a min raise, especially I have a draw to the nuts, though here would have been another good chance to fold, but I again, angrily and against my better nature, called.
Then I hit the nuts on the turn. My belly buster filled in. I checked and got put all in, called.
Of course the guy had a set, of course the board paired on the river (oh, how many times have I been in the exact opposite spot and not boated up??)
Anyhow, this hand is less about me complaining about my own bad play and coolers, but more a note to self and all else that when you aren’t in the best of minds to be playing, STOP PLAYING.
Even if you are still putting money in with the best hand, you will lean yourself into spots where you normally would fold and end up maximizing the gamble rather than playing profitable solid poker.
MINIMIZE THE GAMBLE!
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1 opinion for Back to Back Gross
Jereme
Jul 14, 2008 at 2:21 pm
PREACH IT BROTHER!
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