Chit Chatting Can Cost You Money

Chit Chatting Is Not Good When Playing Poker

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.