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POKER
NEWS:
- CRANBROOK, B.C. -- The poker
faces at Cranbrook's Royal Canadian Legion turned to anger last week
when it was announced the branch had decided to fold its popular Texas
Hold'em tournaments rather than face a hefty fine. The Legion recently
received a heads-up from the liquor inspector informing them that their
tournaments could face the ire of the B.C. Gaming commission among
others. The Legion had been hosting upwards of 80 people on Wednesday
nights since late September with some people driving more than an hour
from other communities to play.
- It's official: Jennifer
Tilly has completed her metamorphosis from poker-playing actress to
poker player, period. For the first time in 15 years, Jennifer Tilly was
nowhere to be seen at the Academy Awards or at any of the post-show
hoopla. Instead, Tilly was in Las Vegas at the NBC Heads-Up Poker
Championship.
ARTICLE:
You know as well that there were
plenty of times you wished you had left a game before you did. This whole
article is about "not" pushing your luck when it’s starting to run dry. Most
poker players have a little voice that tells them when they’re headed for a
bad night. That little voice tells you: "Get out of this game; it has no
future for you." There was a time I rarely listened to this voice. Over the
years I learned to listen very carefully to that little voice. It has saved
me a great deal of money, but I still don't listen to it 100% of the time.
When I start to hear that warning, I start to evaluate the game I am in to
see what is wrong with it. The important part is that I usually know before
I evaluate the game, what's wrong with it and why I should move to another
game, or leave altogether. The problem is that I get too comfortable,
complacent, and too lazy to move. Here are some different ways to evaluate a
question regarding games we should quit.
QUESTION
I just completed a 15-hour losing
session playing 10/20 hold'em, losing 3 big bets per hour. I was exactly
even after playing about 3 hours. I got back to even after taking a beating
at the beginning of the game, and clawing my way back up. My gut feeling
told me, or I should say it pretty much screamed at me in its subtle way to
quit, go home, and get them another day. Of course I decided differently,
and paid for it.
Once you've become the main
course for everyone at the table, you must tighten up considerably for a
variety of reasons. The tendency to win back quickly what you have lost
affects your starting hand requirements, and you start playing more hands
than you normally would. You may also be on an emotional tilt as well,
thereby affecting your decisions as the game continues on. This is a bad
sign, and one of the first steps toward going on tilt.
Here's something important to
think about. By playing tighter than normal, you give someone else the
chance to become fodder for the other piranhas. Get up and take a break that
lasts at least until the button comes around a couple of times. There are
times when even your attempt at trying to play tighter can also work against
you. By taking a break and maybe taking a little walk, you will get a chance
to simmer down. If you are really mentally on tilt, get up from the table,
grab your chips, cash out and leave. Do something else for the day,
something you enjoy as much or more than poker.
Forget all that fairytale BS
about wanting to play against good players, and the honor of the glorious
professional poker player. Most of the successful players are predators out
to exploit every weakness they can find. They want their opponents as live
and as dumb as possible, up to a certain point of course. They want the
proper mix of tight players and live ones. The bottom line is that poker is
a game of control. If you have to have the skill to control the other
players in the game better than they can control you, that's great. The
problem is how can you control the game when everyone else is feasting off
your plays no matter what you do? You are losing and not only do you know
it, but so does the rest of the table. I don't care if you are the best
player in the game, if you are running bad, even the poor players will start
taking shots at you. Poker is one of the few games where the best player
does not always win. The old saying, "Let your conscience be your guide,"
has a lot of merit. If everyone listened to and obeyed their conscience they
most likely would not drink, smoke, overeat, do drugs, or stay in bad poker
games. There are a lot of things we can have a problem controlling, but one
of the easiest we can learn to control is getting our butts out of the chair
in a game we can't seem to beat, and move to a better one. It's easy,
just go to the floor and say, “I would like a transfer to another game." Is
that simple? Yes it is, but do we do it all the time? No we don't. It might
just boost your profit. It sure as heck can't hurt.
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