Pressure Play Poker
Category: Poker
It is perhaps the most dangerous combination to face as an online poker player, someone who is playing fearless, aggressive, poker and getting lucky too. We had one such player at our tournament on Wednesday who seemed completely unable to miss the board cards. He soon built a stack of over 20,000 which just goes to show how much damage you can do with luck on your side, regardless of starting cards. This should not serve to suggest that you should play any two cards when you are feeling lucky though, as good luck never lasts forever. The player I mentioned soon realised this, losing his entire stack in about 20 minutes.
It is important to remember that although you might fold certain cads and then see them hit, you simply have to trust the percentages to give youself the best chance of success. The case of our big stacked player who lost it all demonstrates how swimming against the tide and playing poor cards, will always catch up with you eventually.
If you are playing pressure poker with fairly strong cards and using your reading ability as much as possible then I would say that you deserve any luck you get.
The advantage of reading the situation rather than just shoving all your chips in is that when your luck does eventually turn, you will not lose as many chips.
We all need a little luck in poker, and playing aggressively when you are fortunate can be a combination for success, but always remember that it is your skill that will extract more chips when you are running good, and lose less when the cards are unkind.
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