Make Your Own Luck

Tonight I played at the Attfield tavern in Maddington. I started my usual TAG game and quickly realized that the table I was at was particularly crazy even for the free league. So I tightened up even more and watched as player after player was knocked out by three particularly aggressive players who were getting lucky.

Just before the break these three players clashed knocking one out and severely hurting another, thus creating a monster stack who was super aggressive and didn't know how to fold. I managed to make the break with about 3000, giving me 5000 after the break.

After the break my luck spiraled, the best hand I had was AJ which I folded UTG because I knew that a player to my left was going to push all in. I continued to dwindle down in chips for folding all my terrible hands, I didn't even get a chance to bluff one of my trash hands, the only time I was ever first to enter a pot I was UTG and I knew a raise, even an all in would probably be called.

So the only hand I played after the break was when I had 67c in the small blind and everyone limped, I completed the blind and the BB checked. The flop came down 67J rainbow, I shoved my remaining 2000 into the 3000 pot and got snap called by the super aggressive chip leader with J2c as he called me he declared "I'll chip you up". My problem with this is, simply folding would chip me up enough for me to be happy since there is more than I have in the pot, I said this to him as he showed me his cards and I called the 2 which came on the turn to knock me out.

I asked him why he didn't just fold considering I hadn't played 3 hands all night and this was the first time I had pushed all in, he replied with "you gotta make your own luck you know". I asked him how you do this and he simply shrugged.

If anyone knows how to make your own luck then please tell me, it could prove exceptionally useful to me, I'll even buy somebodies luck if they are willing to sell it, I simply don't have that much I guess.

Good thing I believe poker is a game of skill.

Signing off

Shane