March
2010
Top Five Signs It’s Time to Get up from the Table
1. You are playing too many poker hands If you find yourself steam raising with hands that normally you’d fold or maybe try to limp with, firing bets when you miss the flop and are getting picked off because people know you are trying too hard, it’s time to get up from the table.
2. You are misreading your online poker hand Every now and then we’ll look at our cards and mistake what’s there, it’s normal every now and then, in the space of a session. But when you see that you’ve done that more than once or twice in a whole session, either from being tired, or drinking, or too long in one place, come back when you can see straight.
3. You are blindly aggressing Aggression is the best way to win a pot, short of making the nuts, but it must be timed and aimed aggression. Firing blindly at hand after hand because you are steaming, angry over a bad beat, means that you’ve gotten off center, and need to reconsider your stance. Unaimed aggression will get picked up on by better players, and used against you, unto your loss.
4. When all else fails, defer to Rounders: “If you can’t spot the sucker at the table, you are the sucker.” Remember these four things when you play poker online.
