RG,
It makes no difference if the stakes are $300 or $3 the principles are the
same. If you are playing with scared money then you shouldn't be playing at all
because it means that you are playing at a disadvantage. I enjoy winning, but
not as much as I hate losing, which is why I only play in low stakes games.
I don't know what you mean when you say that implied odds don't figure into
your play because poker is not a slot machine. Slot machines are for chumps.
Poker is the only game in a casino that is possible to consistently win at
because it's the only game where you can put the odds on your side if you
understand the game. If you don't then you might as well be playing the slot
machines.
-RR
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron George <xgeorge@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Feb 19, 2013 11:42 AM
To: sparkscoffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sparkscoffee] Re: Revenge
RR,
I am aware of implied odds but they don't figure prominently in my
decisions.
This is because it has been my experience that poker is NOT a slot
machine due
to dozens of variables.
It's easy to think you have the game figured out but sit down at a $300
max bet
cash game and then tell me how to win.
RG
On 2/18/2013 2:15 PM, Ron Ristad wrote:
RG,
Just one comment. With a hand like you had you need to consider the implied
odds, which is just not the odds of you hitting a full house but the amount of
money you could win if you do. In this case most likely anybody who is betting
or calling has a flush, quite possibly the nut flush, and they would never
expect you to have a full house, meaning that hitting your full house would
give you a hand that could break them. So even though your odds of making a
full house was 22% the potential pay off is much greater. In other words it's
not a 22% or 1-5 odds that you will make your hand, but betting $60 to win $600
or more, which changes the odds to 2-1 in your favor.
This why a good poker player never thinks about winning or losing, but only how
they play the game, because if you play well then no matter how bad your luck
is, in the long run you will always win money. In this case you will only win
that hand approximately 1 out of 5 times, but when you do win you more than
make up for all the times you lost.
-RR
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