Remember what Ass U me means......

I learned three valuable poker lessons today.

The first was early this morning. I had already played about 10 hours of poker yesterday including a tournament I did very well in.

But, I was tired and had drunk a little too much Diet Coke and was not feeling sleeply, so I went on-line and played a little 5-10 limit.

Well, in just a few minutes I was down about $150 because I was playing it similar to the 3-6 game I had played at a very loose-passive table.

I had done well with that approach and had played a winning session for many hours. These people didn’t fold, and were not intimidated by my raises in late position.
Fortunately, I came to my senses without losing any more money and went to bed.

Beside playing when I was tired. I was not in the "here & now" I was playing strategy from a different table that worked there, but here was a losing one.

Lesson 2, I learned at the Casino tonight.
It was similar, to what I learned last night. After playing very tight for about 5-6 hours and winning some money at 2/4 NL. I switched to Omaha for variety, and continued to play only premium hands. I did well there also.

Then the Omaho table got too short handed, so it was switched to 3/6 limit hold-em. I knew I had about ½ hour until my bus left for home so I played too many hands. I lost some of my winnings, but again caught myself and quit before I lost all my winnings. There seems to be a pattern here for me that I have seen before. The behavior is to play too loose after hours of steady wins. I am going to plug that leak before it costs me anymore.

The third lesson I learned actually happened to the player to my left. But, I have done it myself, at least once, I can think of. He was in a pot with one other player where it looked for sure, that they both had a “Broadway Straight” (10-A)

The flop had come Jh,Qd,Ks, the turn was a 7c and the river a 10c. Since the flop, the player to my right had bet, and the player to my left just called. Everybody, else dropped out at the flop.

The river card was a 10s and the player to my right bet and the one to my left just called. Exactly as they had been doing since the flop. The one to my right turned over a pair of Kings! He only had three kings. The player to my left had the Ace of course for the straight.

The player on my left should have raised! He said he was sure they both had the “same hands” and he wanted to save time. Well, he did save a few seconds, but he lost $16 that he would have won. (We were playing 8/16 limit)

He had nothing to lose and no risk by raising. There was no flush possibility and no pairs on the board and he was holding the “nut straight”.

I resolved never to do that in that position. I had done it in the past, but it sure looked dumb, seeing it done by another player.