Playing Good Poker is Boring

Posted on May 8, 2008
Filed Under poker strategy

Playing good poker means not playing every hand. That’s why it’s often referred to as “grinding” - it gets boring just sitting there are folding, but as long as your chip stack keeps growing it will seem like the prudent thing to do. This is why a lot of people just aren’t good poker players; they lack patience and want to just play every hand - good, bad, or marginal.

If you find yourself losing or see your chip stack dwindling down, I challenge you to try just sitting out the next several hands and only play if you get super strong hands like KK or AA.

The goal (if you remember the movie Rounders) is to win one big hand an hour. Shooting for anything else is gambling.

- BigSlick

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