I Suck At Poker – Part 1
You really want to know why you suck at poker? I don’t think you do because it’s obvious and deep inside, you already know. You just don’t want to admit it.
Change is hard.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
If you are always losing at Texas Hold’em, you must do something different. Do what? It doesn’t matter. Just try something different.
Here is a simple one. When the decision is to call or fold, don’t do either. Raise huge or push all you chips in the pot. I don’t care what you hand is. Let’s see. You think there is a 50% chance your opponent is bluffing. You by calling, you’ve got a 50 percent chance of having the best hand. But what if you push? Maybe there is a 25 percent chance he folds, even with a better hand. You’ve just increased you chanced to win the pot? And what if you get called by a better hand? You never win anyways, so what’s the difference? You tried something different.
Do you read books by Doyle, Phil or Daniel? DO you actually try to play the way they tell you to? Or do you do into a game and play like you ordinary self? Be honest!
Look, instead of walking into a poker game, hoping you get the breaks and win, treat it as a experiment. Try things just to see what will happen. What’s the worse that will happen?
Maybe the biggest problem is intimidation by the other players. Everyone tries to act like they belong and the World Poker Tour and they love to rip into another players “bad” play. If that is what your worried about, give it up. You must learn, and sometimes learning is painful.
“It is better to be a fool than to be dead.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.” – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
