Blargh. Poker stupidity.

[kurukami]

When oh when oh when am I going to learn not to chase my ace-king when there's neither an ace nor a king on the flop and two players before me have gone all in?

*headdesk* Particularly when one of the cardinal rules I try to keep reminding myself to play by is "don't chase when you don't have a hand".

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[amguynes]

There is a reason I won't play poker anymore. I have a bad tendency of going, "Well it LOOKS like it MIGHT be a good hand..." I then lose miserably. I tend to only play online for free, but still, I know when I'm beat.

[kurukami]

Usually I'm pretty good about following my cardinal rules, which I fumbled into through a lot of trial and error and acquired pattern recognition of my own mistakes. Today... annoying. Of course, that wasn't what put me out of that particularly tourney. Two consecutive hands did that -- one where I had ace-eight, the flop came jack-eight-four, and someone else had ace-jack, and the next where I had ace-jack and went all-in ore-flop with what I had left (a mere 2100 chips) and got beaten by the same guy when he turned over a pair of aces. *siiiiiigh*

One substantial tactical error, which is recognizable and correctable, and two incidences of someone else having better card luck. D'oh!