The morning after poker
August 20, 2009
There are a lot of nice things that happen in a poker match. There are also a lot of nasty things that happen in a poker match. When you wake up in the morning after a poker match, you can feel good, feel bad, or feel indifferent about your poker game the previous night. You can feel bad about your poker game the last night for the following reasons. You can feel bad because you were making a lot of mistakes. You were calling hands that should not be called. You were going all in with two pairs. What were you thinking that night? You can also feel bad about your poker game last night because you got so wasted with alcohol. You have a really bad hangover and you have to go to work. You have a bad hangover and you have to step up for something important. Nothing is worse than stepping up with a hangover.
You can feel indifferent about your poker match on the previous night if you were making a mix of good calls and bad calls. Sometimes you got a bad beat on someone with a higher straight. Sometimes you were playing too defensively to the point where you were not taking advantage of any opportunities anymore. Maybe last night you were too distracted to play a good poker match. Maybe last night you were not paying too much attention to your opponents. Maybe last night you were too lazy to analyze the odds of some hands. You took advantage of some opportunities but at the same time, you let a lot of opportunities pass you by. The morning after that poker match, you are going to feel indifferent.
There is nothing more pleasing than waking up after a good poker game. Why? You have ten times more money in your pocket! Aside from the money, it is nice to wake up after a good poker match because you knew that you were playing your cards well. You knew that you were taking advantage of the right opportunities. You knew that you seized the opportunities right when they were in front of you. There is no better way to win a poker match where your timing was always right. You were making the right decisions at the right place at the right time. You called your straight when everyone else was bluffing. You went all in and you won the pot. You try to bluff and people fall for it. For some strange reason, you are on a roll. You are making a lot of good calls. You are playing like the professional pokers you see on television and the poker players that you read in books and magazines. Isn’t it good to feel like a poker player? All your poker studying has been put to good use. You can finally say that poker is a nice game. If you are the type of person that has been cursing poker since day one of your poker career then now is the time to change perspective. Poker is really a hard game to win but when you win, the fruits are very fulfilling.