One Wrong Move
27 July 2010I have a buddy who was just over at my house venting about a great night of poker games. He’d spent the entire night playing a cash game at a brick and mortar poker house, and he’d been fleecing everybody who was unfortunate enough to sit down with him. It’s a completely different experience from the poker online room. He was on fire, making solid reads, drawing great hands, calling bluffs, the whole nine yards. Everything was going well until he drew a set of Aces. He had Ace-King of Hearts, and the flop came out Ace-Ace-Queen. With a set of Aces and a King-high kicker, he pushed all in and got one caller-the one guy at the table who had a bigger stack than he did (he’d just bought in for a ton of chips). Turns out that his called had A-Queen unsuited and the full boat held up, and just like that, my buddy’s hand was gone.
Playing poker is a lot like free-soloing a thousand-foot cliff in that there’s not much room for error. You can make hundreds of perfect moves, but if you make one wrong move, you’re done at the poker online table. Try to avoid that wrong move, because although losing your stack to a bad hand isn’t the same as plunging to your death, it’s still not something that you want to make a habit of doing.
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