As usual, more great stuff. ya'll are awesome!!! I have learned very important lesson
that has to be a "catch-all" for poker.........there are NO absolutes!! A fine example is
Mrspolarbear. You just don't know. I recently came across an article out there in cyberworld that listed the top 48 starting hands in Hold 'Em, so I copied this list to
a Notepad doc. I keep it handy and refer to it often. I was surprised at the ranking of a lot of the hands, as I was dead wrong on 1/2 of top 20 and confused about most of the rest on the list. This explained alot about how I kept getting myself in trouble by getting into hands I shouldn't be in on and trying to force other hands to my "will".
Both hard lessons to "experience". I have prided myself on not doing a lot of
"research", as I knew there is no "certain" method or system to guarantee success.
As someone said "Too many variables"....... C'est La Vie! As I mentioned earlier,
my "Pride" has kept me from doing this and brought me to do that, and that is key
issue I want mention. Your emotions will kill you if you are not aware of how they
affect your play. Golf has been "The only "good" bad habit I ever had" and years ago
I used to teach beginners, mostly women(another story all together!) and here's
an analogy I used to use to help try and explain the "emotional" part of that game.
There are 2 ways to play golf. You can either play like Yosemite Sam or like Bugs
Bunny. Sam will make a poor shot or hit the ball "stiff", 3 feet from the flag and get mad at the poor shot and even madder that the "stiff" shot didn't go in, now Bugs will do the same and he is happy to be on the "dance floor" on the good shot and just happy to be playing golf(instead of doing something less desireeable than palying golf) on the poor shot. The main point, I suppose to all that is that you must not allow your emotions to get the upper hand on how you react. In golf you must get over
adversity before your next shot or you WILL make more mistakes and soon the
"wheels will fall off". I think poker is very similar as I know I have gotten "fed up"
with poor results and commited "suicide by all-in" on more than a few occasions
just to get out of there before I popped!! My new "patience" approach and this new
ranked hands list has really helped a lot, but there is one really key issue that I
see a WHOLE lot of players miss out on. It is the best of SEVEN cards, not the 2
each player is dealt pre-flop. A-A or any other high ranking starting 2 does not in
any way assure success. I love to point that out in the chat box to those poor guys
that get beat by "under cards" and go on and on about how everyone else is a donk!
I am sure it ALWAYS makes them feel better........HAHAHHAHAHAHAhahahah...a.a..a
Now, MrsPolarbear, 2 thinga(no right or wrong) Hey! Bugs Bunny all those A-A's!!!!
You WON! and more hands than you lost!! How can that be bad? The more you
play, the better you get, right? I try to learn ALL the time and I bet you'll do better
every time you get A-A from now on, just thru experience, Now the other thing....
You married a polarbear?!?!?!?!............What were you thinking?!?!?!?!..........
LOL......... just playing! Have fun and Bugs Bunny ya'll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanx again to all for the input
This is great!
I have another little "Play" that I run into now and again and I would REALLY
like to hear ya'll's thoughts on this one.......it's KILLER!!!!!
Read the new thread titled "3 Me!"
Later
Lucky
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