Poker Jerks

October 05, 2005

Actually it may be the correct thing to do when you are losing. I don't mean to say that you should change your Fulltiltpoker game to the point where you fear betting your good hands. When that point is reached you should be getting up and leaving. I mean betting hands for value and trying to push everyone around. Checking and calling is not a weak play, although the opinion is widely accepted.

I wake up when someone shakes me and asks if I am boarding this plane for Dallas/Fort Worth. I run to board my plane and get there with no problems. I have to change planes again and I AM OFF TO LAS VEGAS ONLY 30 HOURS AFTER LEAVING HOME. My flight arrives at McCarran. We taxi towards the docking bay and then stop. I am wondering why we are sitting on the tarmac, only a dozen or so feet away from the dock?

• I've often found that after winning a bunch of Fulltiltpoker hands in a short period of time, especially if I've had to show down genuine power, then you can use that to become boss of the table driving out hands that you don't quite have the power to normally drive out. Other players will fear your run of luck and leave you pots, with hands that they might normally try to draw out on you with.
• Only once have I chopped a blind with another Fulltiltpoker player who gave me the shaft. He willingly chopped blinds with me at least several times, then when he finally got a good hand he refused to chop. Now that's his right, but it doesn't show much class. I didn't say a thing, but boy it hurts to keep from yelling when you are biting your tongue so hard.
• One day on one of these walks, my grandson Robbie looked up at me and asked me why I do that, when he has seen so many pictures in albums of my past days as a Fulltiltpoker hunter. I tell him that someday when he is a little older, I will explain to him all about it. Then we go back to talking about baseball, fishin', skateboarding, what Gramps is getting him for Christmas, what he wants from Santa, and other neat stuff.

One might argue that a "constant winner" is one who wins more sessions than he loses. Even then, it's a meaningless statement. Converse to an above example, one could win 9 out of 10 sessions and really blow off chips the tenth session. This person wouldn't be a consistent winner; he'd be a consistent loser! Count the money to see whether you're a consistent winner.

If you're constantly complaining about bad beats or too loose play in low limit Fulltiltpoker, then either you're playing wrong, playing in the wrong game, or simply edging a little closer to tilt. Bad losers always complain about being outdrawn. They mutter under their breaths about damned chasers and so on.

If a limp-reraise with pocket Aces saves your opponents from making significant mistakes after the flop, the initial profit preflop may not actually increase overall profit. If none of your Fulltiltpoker opponents will give you credit for strength when you raise from early position anyways, why raise with a weak hand to fool them? Limit poker is a game with finite edges. An opponent's gaffe will result in a relatively small, fixed loss.