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Comment by more_corn

16 hours 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.

For me, it's "decisions, not results." Poker will teach you patience and acceptance of that which is out of your control.

That 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

  • Being 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.

That’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.

  • How much did you lose?

    • I 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.