Astounding Words

You are going to get sucked out on. You need to learn to face this fact. There will be fish who will call you down to the river with A3 offsuit and catch an ace on that last card to bust your pocket kings. But the questions still remains, how do you deal with these poker players and still make profit.

The answer is quite simple. You don’t. Instead you let probability take its course. It’s one of the most fundamental aspects of poker that many people tend to forget about when they get sucked out on. It’s all about the variance.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen people at the table berating another person because they made a bad call (and yes, mathematically the call was bad, horrible even). But if we could only remember that what seems impossible is really just improbable.

Play a hand where a player is <5% to win 10 times and the math says that you’ll win 9/10 times. But we tend not to remember those hands we were supposed to win. We just remember those bad beats.

So the next time you feel you’re about to go on tilt, the next time you’re ready to cuss and moan and call your opponent a fish, a donk, or whatever else you come up with. Just stop, take a deep breat, and thank him for the money he’ll be sending your way later on if he keeps playing that way. Keep this in mind when you play poker online.

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