Pacificpocker.com – Win When You’re Losing
www.pacificpocker.com – There is a theory coined by David Sklansky which states that, if you get your chips in with the best hand, you have already won, no matter what happens afterwards. That is essentially, all a good poker player can ever do in their attempts to be successful. Often luck will step in and take the pot away from you, but that is entirely beyond our control, and will even out over time. So in theory, as long as we keep getting our chips in with the best of it, eventually we will be rewarded for it.
I like to bear this in mind whenever I take a bad beat at pocker, because as far as playing the game goes, the moment I turn over what is comfortably the best hand, I have won that battle against my opponent, no matter what the river card brings.
The real test of resolve in poker, is to be patient, and to recognise that even if you are going in ahead and losing pots, you should keep doing what you are doing, as it is obviously working well, even if it doesn’t seem that way sometimes.
When we are not being dealt any decent hole cards at all, then it is still possible to pick up the occasional pot, or simply tighten up and wait for a hand. In some ways, this is also a way in which you can win whilst you are losing. Because if you can keep your chip stack afloat when you aren’t getting any cards, you are at least surviving, and in poker, that is essentially winning too.
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