Poker Advice For Fools

Lately I’ve been losing a lot by being sucked out on, but that is fine. I couple weeks ago I was dealt pocket queens. The guy to my right raised pre-flop with a sizable amount. I doubled that, more than a third of my stack, and a horrible player on the other side of the table went all-in, which was less than my raise. The guy to my right folded. Just what I wanted. The horrible player had pocket eights. Win this and I’m the chip leader. Nope, eight on the flop.

So this guy almost tripled up and a half hour later, he was watching.

This story has been happening to me too often lately.

I’ve seen this happen to others who don’t have the patiences to deal with it. They cry and whine and talk about giving up the game and I want to slip them upside the face with a dead fish and tell them to be a man! It fucking happens! And if you are going all in pre-flop, you’ve only seen two cards out of seven.

What to do when you are going through stretches like this? Remember, you are playing better poker and eventually, if you keep playing better poker, it will pay off.

There is another thing, and that it to learn.

Back to my story. So I went from possible chip leader to struggling a little. Three hands later, two guys with about half my stack went all-in. I had King-Jack off. I called. Once had Ace-Queen and the other I don’t remember. I lost and now was really hurting. At the time I thought, hey if I get lucky here, I’m right back in it. I was fucking stupid. Normally I would have never gone in with suck a god-awful marginal hand. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Can you say Tilt?

So live and learn. The suck out was one thing and I could use that as an excuse, but the truth is, I’m to blame for not cashing that night,