Posted by Dr Fro 8:35 AM
My style is simple. I play very aggressive and unpredictable. The downside is that I piss away a lot of money by tripling or quadrupling the blinds on a very large number of my hands that I have to release later. However, that sets me up for the big score. All those $12 bets I piss away are easily recovered by the 1 or 2 $1,000 pots. On Wednesday, I was not winning any of those big pots until I finally hit one for $900.

For the first time since early February I lost more than a token amount. I lost around $350, which sucks. However, to put it in perspective, posts were typically in the hundreds with only 5 players left. Thus, I was really only one pot away from being a winner on the evening. Had we played longer, I may well have got it all back.

And when you read my logic above, you understand my biggest weakness – I place too much emphasis on “winning nights”. I don’t view poker as the “poker game of life” where I should not sweat losses or wins on any given nights. I try to win each and every night. This causes bad play, like bluffing $485 into Wilson to win a pot that would put me at even for the night – even though it was a silly bluff. I only made that play because I was down and wanted to get even. I need to learn that it is ok to lose and learn to play each hand based on its own merits.

Another reason to walk away when you are down (rather than staying up all night to get even) has been discussed here before. In all likelihood, you are now up late with 4 guys who are big winners. They don’t want to lose their stack, so they take no chances. They will only play you if they know they have the best of it. The juicy potential to win that was there at the beginning of the night has disappeared and you are playing against rocks, stealing their blinds each hand and then getting hit over the head with their monster hands.

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