Thursday, December 13, 2007

Smart Stack Poker

Poker. The game of luck. The game of skill. The game of swings. Some days you hit every flop, and other days, you run card dead, and when you finally get it all in good preflop with your pocket Kings, someone will be there to call you and hit his two pair on the river.

This is Poker.

Limit your losses and maximize your gains. Know when to take calculated risks, and accept your decision regardless of the outcome. When you get your stack in with the best hand and you lose, you've done your job. Unfortunately for you, you can't control the flop, turn, or river.

This is Poker.

You can win 300 bucks in a tournament that took you 5 hours to win, and lose it within the span of ten minutes playing a stake way over your head and your bankroll. You can play the best poker of your life and still break even. You can take a bad beat and tilt away your bankroll, or you can say nice hand, reload, and wait for the next opportunity to stack someone at the table.

This is Poker.

Poker requires patience, skill, determination, objectivity, control, and discipline. But even if you have all these traits, it'll never guarantee that you'll always win every tournament, or never get unlucky, or always come out on top. But always remember that over a lifetime, you will be a winner. If you have talent, and you are determined to be a winner, and you are objective with your decisions and are willing to take the process one step at a time, you will be a winner. This is life.

This is Smart Stack Poker.

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