It’s 26 days till I will sit down to play in this year’s WSOP (Event #54) so there is just time to get in a series of blogs containing the wisdom (or lack of it) that I have amassed about this game that we love, hate, or love to hate.
Day 1: A is for ...
A is for Alcohol. It is often said that Alcohol and Poker don’t mix. This is false. I am able to mix the two very easily, and for long periods. I have tested their miscibility to destruction. Bankroll destruction, that is. The things I will do for the scientific method...
A particularly thorough experiment took place at The Venetian last July. The peer-reviewed results are here.
What is true is that Alcohol and Winning Poker are hard to combine. Maybe that’s what they meant?
A is for All-In. Yes indeed. Sooner or later (in tournaments anyway) it comes to this. I certainly prefer to be the one shoving, and not the one making the all-in call. As a general rule, I think it's somewhat accepted that it's better to get your chips in first although I possibly take that nugget of advice to extremes.
Before a big tournament, I will actually practice my all-ins. I'm not joking !
I mentally (and occasionally out loud !) imagine the scenario has arrived and I am saying:
"All in" or
"I'm all in" or
"I'm ALL in" or
"I put you all in" or
"OK, I'll go all in" or
" " (silently pushes chips over the line) or
" " (silently waves hands indicating the shove)
What possible purpose can this serve ? None, really. I guess I can make a tenuous argument that visualisation is a useful approach in tournament poker. Really it's just evidence of my degenerate love of poker !
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