Keep Your Sanity

Keeping your sanity is very important in poker. Very important. When you sit down at a table with suspect players you have to expect to have the edge. You have to weave your spell and expect the cash to come rolling your way BUT you also have to brace yourself for when your clueless opponent hits that miracle 2-outer on the river. However, when the river card hands BOTH villains that miracle to take both the main pot AND the side-pot, you have to make sure that you keep your sanity in check.

Here I am trapping my loosie-goosie fishy opponents with a lovely premium preflop hand:

Ok, so let's just avoid an ace and we'll be ok, yes?

Ah, those villain's cards are better than I thought. Liking the flop and the turn! Let's just avoid one of the two 8s left in the deck and I'll take this one down!! 

Oh...

Breathe in.......hold it....... and breathe out.....
...........And breathe in.......hold it.....  and breathe out.....

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Funnily enough, experiencing the injustice of hands like this is the reason why a lot of players leave the game. In fact, if there are players around who are prepared to stack off with those types of hands, in those types of spots, then that's one of the reasons why we should actually carry on playing with relish.