Thursday, January 13, 2005

THE REAL GAME OF KINGS

Forget chess. Poker is the game that teaches you the best life lessons.

I lost $80 at pot-limit last night, dammit! And while I can think of a couple of hands where I was optimistic, or calculated the odds wrong, I can think of quite a few hands where I'm not sure I played anything wrong. Would I honestly have folded those three kings if I'd noticed the flush draw on the board? I think I'd have had to stay in, and raised. And would I have folded for $10 when there was $50 in the pot and I had 21 outs to the nut low hand? I don't think so.

Sometimes the cards just don't help you none.

I'm sure I was playing badly. But I played badly two times ago and lucked out big time!

Ahhhh well ... still a game I recommend to anyone interested in showbiz. Nothing will teach you more about negotiation than poker, except lots of negotiation.

8:19 AM

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