Steve’s Terrible Table

We all have moments in poker where we look back and say, “Man it was so obvious he had a big hand there, why couldn’t I just let it go?” Early on in our careers we usually don’t suffer from this too much. We rationalize getting our stack all in on a 4-bet flop with TP2K and losing to a set as a “cooler” or “standard” etc. Somewhere along the lines we are taught that we need to look over our plays and try to objectively determine if we played correctly or not. It’s hard sometimes to think we played a hand right when we lost sometimes, or wrong when we won. It is a skill just as important as learning to read your opponents at the table or calculate odds quickly in your head. I had a spot play at Foxwoods recently where I’m not sureexactly if I played the hand right or wrong so I’ll leave it up to you to decide.

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