The best time to play internet poker
I love playing poker during the late night/early morning hours. It’s about 4:30 am now here on the East Coast. I’ve always felt that the games were better around this time because they include the late night drunks and the ones who trying to get even from a bad night.
I made one of the worst moves that I can ever remember last night. It was horrible. I won’t go into the gory details because I’m too embarrassed by how I played, but let’s just say that I pushed all in with a small pocket pair on the flop against a set. Big mistake.
I thought at the time that I had good reason for what I was doing because I had a few notes on my opponent. I made a read that this was the kind of situation he was bluffing at repeatedly, and I decided that my pocket pair had a better than even chance of winning the hand with a move right at that moment.
Of course, this mistake led me to question myself and my seemingly awful play. Where did I go wrong in this hand?
Obviously, my read was wrong. But I don’t think I was incorrect in trusting my analysis of the hand and my opponent’s tendencies. Unfortunately, that analysis was just flawed. Sometimes that is going to happen in poker.
I made a snap judgment based on my read without fully considering that my read was based on a fairly small sample size. I didn’t think enough that there was a possibility that my read was incorrect.
I relied instead on what I thought my opponent didn’t have rather than what I thought was his possible range of hands. Pretty bush league poker I think.
Whatever. I’ll get over it and try not to make the same mistake again.
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