Success through Risk
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010There’s a belief in online poker, and in life itself, that you can’t reach a big success unless you take a bit of a risk. In poker online, this is undoubtedly true. I have written in the past about the foolishness of being too ultra-aggressive, eventually someone is going to catch you and you’ll lose big. But some well-timed aggressiveness is always good. I was playing a game of No Limit Texas Hold Em at a casino recently when I was dealt 7-2 on the button. Normally when you get dealt 7-2 you throw in away and hope for a better hand next time. Certainly that is what I usually do. However, I noticed that everyone before all had folded. And the two player sin the blinds had been playing poker pretty tight. So I made a decent-sized raise in hopes of picking up the blinds. Well, the small blind folded but the big blind called me. Oh well, I tried, I thought to myself. Well, imagine my surprise, when the flip came out 7-7-2! Needless to say, I ended up winning a nice sized pot. Now you could say I never should have been in the hand in the first place, but just by making an aggressive play I ended up benefiting greatly. You never know what can happen unless you try and make a few plays.