01-26-2006, 03:46 PM
By steaming, you're playing right into your opponents' hands. Poker is a game of chance, bad beats are going to happen. People always remember their bad beats and never the bad beats they put on other people though, so the statistics always seem slanted against you if you're just going off your memory.
Chris Ferguson once pointed out that the better player you are, the more bad beats you're going to take, since you're getting your money in with the best of it much more often. A bad player, on the other hand, is going to be dealing out lots of bad beats since they're going in with the worst of it so often.
In any case, roll with the punches and know that luck trumps skill in the short term but that in the long term skill is the deciding factor.
Chris Ferguson once pointed out that the better player you are, the more bad beats you're going to take, since you're getting your money in with the best of it much more often. A bad player, on the other hand, is going to be dealing out lots of bad beats since they're going in with the worst of it so often.
In any case, roll with the punches and know that luck trumps skill in the short term but that in the long term skill is the deciding factor.
--Mith
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London