“Saying ‘That’s Poker’ is a way of saying you took a bad beat without complaining.” -Scott Fischman
I’m a card player, and actualyl a pretty good one. What drives people nuts as they start to learn poker is that skill only takes you so far. If you do everything right, you can give yourself a 95% chance to win a hand. But there is still that ugly 5%, when the one card in the deck can come out and take it all away. It’s called a bad beat. People go mad over this, screaming, and abusing, then going on tilt, blowing away all the rest of their chips over the next few hands with steam shooting out of their ears.
What it means is simple: you can do everything right and still lose. Experts learn to shrug it off, and keep their center. And it boils down to a smiple phrase:
That’s Poker.
It’s life, too. Sometimes, you do the best you can, you make no mistakes, but you still lose.
But there are times you can’t just shrug it off, as much as you’d like to. Losing something you would rather have kept just hurts sometimes. When that happens, the only thing to do is push back from the table, take a break, do something else, and just wait it out, until your head is right again, and you are making good decisions.
Anyone up for some Scrabble?
Thing is Sylvanus, is Scrabble any better?? ;o)
Is any “game” really better?
i imagine this thought is both calming and troubling, would i be right?
*grin* What about strip poker? With the right group, no matter what, you win. ;)
Thank you. I needed to read that. I really really needed to read that. I may even borrow a line from it to hang on my mirror. I can finally stop wondering what I did wrong, why he disappeared after I gave him all of me, like no one has ever had before. I happen to love poker, and play very well…so you put it in terms that make sense to me. Sometimes you do everything right and you still lose.