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I Need To Quit

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wal66

wal66

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I love playing cards but I really need to quit. There is just too much luck involved. I won't lie, I don't know the math in my head as far as actual numbers but I know when I have the lead in a hand and whether or not I am getting my money in good or not. I am fair at reading players as well but nothing matters when you are simply unlucky.

I bought in tonight for $400 and over several hours I built it up to $1100. I never once bluffed, if I raised and was re-raised and knew I was behind I laid it down. If I was allowed to see my draws cheaply enough I came along for the ride. i was playing the way I play when I am on my game.

The deck wasn't running me over or anything, it was just a perfect combination of good reads, proper play and hands holding up. Tonight was one of those nights when you go home happy and make a very nice lil profit.

Under the gun straddled and the next guy re-straddled at the $2-$5 table. When it get's to me I re-raise to $120 with AA. Next guy folds and small blind re-raises me all in. I have He has about $2000 in front of him so he has me covered. Naturally I insta-call and he flips over AA as well. There is a little laugh and then the flop comes. There is no laughing out of me at this point. No, I am not laughing at all when I am staring at 3 hearts on the flop and no heart in my hand. I sure as hell wasn't laughing when the turn brought the final heart needed to take my $1100 away either.

I take bad beats all the time but usually it because some dumbass doesn't know he's a dumbass or simply doesn;t care. That wasn't the situation here, the guy had a legit hand and I just got very unlucky which tends to happen often enough that I really should quit.
 
Daft, you do know it happens to anyone who plays the game but there is still little solace in that. It still sucks balls.

Much of this is my own fault though. I try to adhere to reaching $1000 and leaving regardless of how long I have been there or how good the cards are running. If you play you know the cards generally ALWAYS turn. Sure you can wait out the cold spells till they get hot again but in doing so unless your discipline is really high the temptation to mess around is there. As described here it's not always an urge to get crazy either, sometimes it's just bad luck in waiting. Had I stuck to my rule I would have been gone a good 45 minutes before this hand came up.
 
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Much of this is my own fault though. I try to adhere to reaching $1000 and leaving regardless of how long I have been there or how good the cards are running. If you play you know the cards generally ALWAYS turn.
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Wal I'm sure you don't know me from the Ace of Spades but it is this type of thinking that limits so many players from ever becoming better at any type of gambling they are involved in.
 
Cobra, you are correct, I don't know you. That said though it doesn't make your opinion wrong in my eyes. I think it's more of a philosophy that every player must find for themselves. You can't argue though that cards like so many things run in streaks. Sometimes those streaks are hours sometimes days or even weeks (in my experience that is)

I believe in setting a goal and when you reach that goal walk away. Why stay there and get tired or bored and increase the odds of running into a mistake or just plain bad luck? As I said though I'm not disagreeing with you just saying I play with a different philosophy, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
 
after a thorough 3 year evaluation I am content to say that this household supports Wally's new addiction of providing people with various RC vehicles to race into his ass as opposed to his old addiction of losing all his money playing poker
 
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