All of these threads say basically the same thing. " I'm a great poker player but i lose my money". NO YOU ARE NOT. Good players win money. Donks and fish lose money. Overconfident donks lose faste/quote]
i am no DONK/Fish. I can tell you that 95% of the hands i went all in with, I had the best hand when i went all in.
So what? If you're favored when you go in, you'll win in the long run the percentage of times you're supposed to win.
How many of us, with pocket fours and $10 in the pot, throw in another $50 for example after putting the opponent on AK. You have the best hand. Is it worth it to put a big chunk of our money on this slim advantage? I'd say no. Who among you would make this bet? Remember, your read might be wrong too. And if you lose, is it really a suckout worth a big whine?
Being ahead in the hand at the time you make the bet is only part of the game. Are your bets on previous streets building a plausible scenario that your opponents will believe? And if they won't or can't or are just the proverbial bad players that can't make a laydown, THAT too is your responsibility. Know your opposition. Know what they are capable of and don't be making fancy plays and bluffs they won't understand, then say you're the best player - it's just that nobody else was smart enough to notice.
The best player is the one who gages the opposition and plays the game in such a way to exploit their weaknesses and avoid the pitfalls presented both by BAD players and GOOD players. I know exactly where you're coming from, man, because I used to have that same whine. But like Muckets says, it doesn't add up that all these great players like yourself suffer the injustice of losing money. You gotta be honest with yourself. You might have some good poker knowledge, but your strategies are not evolved enough that you're responding to different scenarios and player types. If you think you can beat great players but you just can't beat the bad ones, then learn to beat the bad ones.
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