Chit Chatting Is Not Good When Playing Poker
When playing poker, in general it is good idea to keep your mind on the job. Normally I would be doing this without thinking and making idle conversation in the hope of gaining some new information about a player and what they might do or have done in a particular situation.
However, if you’re not entirely focused you can go a bit overboard and end up giving too much information out, or, even worst throwing away your chips as if it was confetti. The reason why I bring this up is that I was playing in a game and I chucked away chips as if I was Bob Geldof trying to feed the World. Ina way this is some sort of therapy in order to drum it into my head that |I must focus and concentrate!
On Friday I had three choices. A social club, horse racing or poker. My life is not on fire at the moment so this is what it has come down too. I entered a game which is deliberately fishy and amazingly I was doing OK with such a low stack (as I was late and I was also penalised for being late).
Caught a few fishes and got extremely unlucky when a guy decided to bet all in with 9 4 off suit. He hits two pair beating my AK. This was not the coup de grace of my beating. My Waterloo happened when I got chatting to some rail birds and didn’t hear the call to return to the tables. Consequently I lost chips in the blinds and ante and I missed potential ‘all-in’ situations in which I might have been able to claw some ammunition. Bad move on my part!
Let this be a valuable lesson the reason the railbirds are railbirds is that they lost their chips. Do not get distracted by losers.