aspects of poker

[bartongamer]

One of the terrific aspects of poker is that it is a mass of contradictions. Winning poker comes from playing when you have the best of it -- not specifically from knowing you have the best of it, or even knowing how much the best of it you have. You can have a great player and an awful one facing the same situation. The great player can analyze and study and draw absolutely accurate conclusions while at the same time the awful player can be completely clueless -- and they can still both end up doing the same action (like calling an all-in bet).

Of course, over a period of time the players who do the correct thing because they know it is correct are going to win out over the players who sometimes happen to do the correct thing by accident. Knowing the why and how of actions are the important skills players need to develop, even if during any particular hand the unthoughtful players can blunder onto the correct "what".

[Dyno Don]

Don't I know that's the truth, about the all-in part.

It's like a 50/50 chance of winning until the cards are flipped over.

I've done this too many times, call an all-in with a high pair or low pair and bust.

The way I've looked at this all-in thing over the past few years, don't call it unless you know for a fact your cards are higher or you have the winning hand.

It seems like 60+% of the time, even when I do have the best hand, I will bust out.

Just play smart is all I can think of while playing poker, oh, and have fun doing it.

[bfan]

We shouldn't forget that a great part is lying on luck in gambling!! Sometimes experience, analysis and skills...don't work, just because your fortune has left you...So it happens, nothing can be done!