Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="theheeb1984, post: 5722187, member: 438920"] 1) Luck for me is timing and preparedness for the situation. 2) I experience all the time in my life but I would say the luckiest was somehow being able to wake up at 5am when I was out the night before partying until 3am to my phone ringing. It was a recruiter asking me to be ready for a job interview in 1 hour as they were based in Singapore. This one event changed the course of my life and let me meet my wife, have kids, get out of debt, travel the world, play lots of poker and so much more. 3) I believe that the greatest luck in poker comes from reading the situation accurately. Example was I was playing with some friends at a home game and was in a battle with a guy for the last 2 hours. We had been playing for close to 8 hours already and I had about $1400 in front of me and he had about $1800 in front of him. Most of the table of 8 players had anywhere from $500 to $3000 just for reference of the money. All I had in the hand on the turn where the luck really came into play was a pair of kings and looking at an Ace on the board. This guys range was wide and could have been any of the junk cards or could be the Ace or even a set. I bet $200 into the pot of $500 on the turn mostly as a blocker bet and he tabled for a good 2 minutes and then raises $600 on top. I was sitting there replaying everything from the last few hands and what he has done this hand to try to figure out what he had. He bluffs about 30% of the time, bets drawing hands about 40% of the time, and never shoves his the nuts. While sitting there he smack talks me which is fairly normal in the game and I was a bit pissed and told him to shut it for a min so I can think. Here is the luck, at exactly 1 min just before I was going to fold, he turns to our friend and asks him about something odd and I could swear I saw his neck throbbing and sweat so I stopped my fold and shoved. He called with a draw and missed, but when I looked at him when I shoved I couldn't see any tension, I couldn't see any throbbing neck muscle or sweat and I am telling myself it was my imagination.... but I swear I saw it and made me call him. This was pure luck or instinct that made me do it, and looking back in a normal situation I would have folded 99% of the time there based on the way he had been playing and acting up until he spoke with our friend looking away from me. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Search

Reply to thread

About CardsChat

Our Community

Our Site

Follow us