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One of the best life lessons I learned was while perusing a poker strategy book in a bookstore as a teen. I’ve never been into poker, not even sure why I picked
by more_corn 1y ago
One of the best life lessons I learned was while perusing a poker strategy book in a bookstore as a teen. I’ve never been into poker, not even sure why I picked it up.
One thing it said was the most important thing to remember is that most of your hands will be crap. Don’t get attached to a bad hand and don’t convince yourself that an ok hand is a good hand. If you just fold the bad hands and play the good ones you’re already a better player than most.
I took that to heart and it has served me well in life.
- wileydragonfly 1y agoThat’s it. That’s the entire strategy. I pray that the Texas Hold ‘Em fad doesn’t come back. That was an insufferable decade of hearing how clever everyone was.
- albedoa 1y ago[flagged]
- wileydragonfly 1y ago[flagged]
- oinfoalgo 1y agoI have never met a losing poker player. That for me was the greatest life lesson from that time. Also how there was all these poker strategy books but I don't remember a single one trying to model the strategy of the rake and how to determine if the rake made a game unbeatable. Basically, assuming all games at all levels of rake are beatable. How convenient for the house.
- cman1444 1y agoThat's "the entire strategy" for becoming a non-beginner. Poker game theory gets much more complicated at higher levels of play.
- wileydragonfly 1y ago[flagged]
- thebigspacefuck 1y agoThat just makes you a tight passive player which is not the worst kind of player to be but also not likely to win you a lot of money
- btilly 1y agoBeing a loose aggressive player is far more likely to lead to you losing a lot of money, than winning a lot of money. Once you consider what the house earns, poker is a net negative for the players. In order for there to be some big winners, there have to be a lot of losers. And a shocking number of those losers will, thanks to our selective memories, consider themselves winning players.
- owlninja 1y agoIn popular poker you are just playing against other players, not the house.
- eszed 1y agoDoesn't the house take a percentage of the pot ("rake", isn't it called?). Not a poker player, just thought that was a thing.
- albedoa 1y agoYes. The person you are responding to doesn't quite understand the comment they are responding to :) The rake can turn a breakeven or even winning player into a losing player. That's what we mean.
- owlninja 1y agoSorry, that is fair enough, he is describing a casino. I never played in Vegas during the hold 'em boom, but went to plenty of houses where there wasn't really a rake.
- bluGill 1y ago
- tgijs 1y agoFor me, it's "decisions, not results." Poker will teach you patience and acceptance of that which is out of your control.