Beware The Negative Rush

As you become more and more aggressive toward table dominance, a peculiarity will surface. Just as you can hit stride and start taking down pots in rapid-fire fashion, you can also hit a glitch in the system. Sometimes the cards like to play "one better" on you. And you'd really have to have a royal flush to escape it. When this is happening, you'll be getting cards that are hitting the flop, turning into real hands. But, the board may take away your edge suddenly, interrupting you in the middle of you building up your opponent to a major stack suckout. The thing is, however the cards are deceiving you in one better land, the point is too back off. 99 people out of 100 will increase their bets, go charging in, and hit hat same disappointment again and again. It's a negative rush. Great hands are being one-bettered. It takes great discipline to keep from throwing your stack away through one of these, because the cards and the hands look great. But, the fact it keeps coming back rejected, means the streaking is to disappoint you, even if enraging bad beats must be concocted. Learn to tell the difference between when you are positively versus negatively rushing, and you'll join the top 5% overnight.