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Poker Insights

"Money can't buy happiness but it can buy chips which is kinda the same thing" - Ed Reif

"The longest journey begins with a cash advance from the Bank of America"

The Kung Fu Book of Caine

Poker Without Money Is An Opinion: Just busted out with Anna (looks good, never wins!). Here's my bad beat story...

The sex of Poker is really a game of mistakes, and the greatest one is rooted in pleasure. The fine line we walk between success and self-destruction comes down to asking that one dirty (Harry) question rooted in the loner cop’s message of personal freedom, "Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"

Poker is a game of situations. Winning poker is about making good decisions. Feeling lucky and going to a casino is like feeling athletic and going to a sports bar. It’s a bad decision. It is the in to your sane, a kind of voluntary madness. The surest way of getting nothing from something.

NLH and Decision Making: In Blackjack, there is always a correct decision, a perfect strategy. NLH, on the other hand, is a game of completing the puzzle of partial information; where players make inferences and “investments” under uncertainty. Fixed strategies don’t work because players don’t always act perfectly.

No Limit Hold ‘em or NLH is designed to have a high luck factor that can quite easily lead to a sort of pathological optimism. It’s a fast, easy-to-understand game that pulls down huge bucketfuls of short-term luck. In fact, playing because you are “feeling lucky” is (almost) the right way to play.

Yet, the right way to play NLH and (almost) the right way to play is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Luck is the thunder—impressive and loud, but lightning does all the work.

Final Thought: Poker is not user-friendly; it’s user illusionary. The cards are there to confuse the bad players. Winning isn't about the cards you have but the story you tell.