I read an interesting post on a forum the other day. The topic of the thread was bad beats and one female player, whom I know is a decent but not yet a great player and has played for some time, made the comment that when she gets bad beats, her “feeling are hurt by [...]

One of the keys of poker is losing.
It’s a fact that we all lose, and often. Even the best players lose hands, lose pots, lose sessions and lose tournaments because of the degree that chance plays in poker. But that losing keeps the bad players playing with us, so we have to lose, and we [...]

Picture yourself walking along a path on the side of a hill. Each step is like folding preflop. Fold, fold, fold. Then you decide to raise preflop. This is like a stomp, or a step off the path, a forceful step, asserting that you have a hand, that you’re not afraid to increase the stakes. [...]

Somewhere waaaay back I wrote about my learning process and the stages that I tend to go through. Like, I’m a fast basic learner and can pick up a basic understanding pretty quickly. This has always stood me in good position during my schooling years.
But if I want to go beyond basics then I get [...]

Part I covered some basic elements to answering the question. For Part II there are some derivatives of the results in Part I.
For one, I mentioned in Part I that if you’ve been at that level before, then playing underrolled or moving quickly through levels is not so bad. There are a number of reasons [...]

You hear it over and over again;

“I can’t stand the suckouts”
“I hate the donks that chase and hit on the river”
“I can’t beat these awful players”
“He calls my AA with xx and flops a full house”
“The site is rigged in favor of bad players to keep them playing”

And finally;

“Should I move up to avoid the [...]

“And I think that it’s only in the private tournaments that I can play a full game, as full as I’m capable of playing, playing with the minimum of mental adjustments downwards for the level of play. That, probably more than anything else, contributes to my success rate in these tournaments.”
If this is even partially [...]

Here’s a question that I don’t have the answer to.
Alright, first a question that I do have the answer to. Why don’t I play more tournaments? Answer:

Because I don’t like to wait for them to begin, and even if it’s a Sit and Go I don’t like not having control over when it ends. It’s [...]