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Holdem
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I buy into the game with half the money that I have decided that I can afford to lose. Which necessarily means that I am not playing in a no limit game but one with a betting structure of $3.00 and $6.00. Not a high stakes game by any means but one in which you can make some money if you are careful. The card room was crowded and I had to put my name up on the board to be called when they was an empty seat at a table. I killed some time by putting a twenty into a video poker machine. Usually I have pretty good luck playing video poker. This time was no different. No big wins but enough three of a kinds to have me pretty close to the twenty when they called my name. I opted to pay the Big Blind in order to get into the game right away instead of waiting for it to come around to me. Shuffle and Deal. Pocket Aces for the first hand. "Cool." I sez to myself. "Pocket Aces and I am gonna slow play the." So, I am standing with [ As,Ad] and the flop comes Ac,Kd,Jd. I have hit the set but the board looks like a Straight or a Flush could choke me. I still call. The turn card is no help to me, or the straight, or the Flush, it is 2c. I check. There are four people left in the hand. One guy bets. I raise just to see how the wind blows. I find out it is blowing gale force. Two more guys raise and one drops. As hard as it is to do I throw away the three Aces. The hands went on like that for an hour. Just enough to skate me all the way to the river and then dump me on the bank. In the meantime I had to rebuy with the second half of my stake. I gotta admit that I was getting a little freaked out seeing good cards, winning cards, get beat time after time. Not even a mystery that they were losers to anyone who spends ten seconds reading the board. It was all right there for me to see in the middle of the poker table I knew that I was heading for tilt if things did not turn around. The only way that I recovered my composure was to remember that my entire plan was designed to avoid tilt and heavy losses. I could loose my entire stake, get up from the table, and leave. Just the cost of doing business. This will happen to everybody, sooner or later. The advantage of an Internet poker room is that you do not have to spend the money for gas, food, and drink. It is far easier to change tables on the Internet. The only thing that I could do was get up and walk around my chair a time or two. It was no help.
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