Posted Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:01 pm GMT by rlb2252
Is “not losing” almost the same as winning? Short of winning, isn’t not losing the best of all possible worlds?
You get to pony up to the electronic poker table. You get to socialize. You get to spectate. You get to participate.
For those newbies still learning it’s the equivalent of going to Harvard on a scholarship. It’s not a play money game but for your budge it might as well be.
It’s like taking a date to a nightclub and when the tab comes due at the conclusion of the evening’s entertainment, your bill reads ZERO!
When you lose, of course, you’d be happy with any outcome other than the one you just had; that sour feeling in the pit of your stomach, much like the one Jack (of Bean Stalk fame) must have felt when he gave away his cow for a few beans.
Anything but losing. Anything. If that meant sitting for an hour playing zilch hands short of the “sure things”, you’d take that over your now hollow pockets.
Not losing, you have the exact same bankroll you started with.
Not losing, you can play tomorrow, or tonight, with all that money you didn’t lose.
And at least with not losing, playing to a near statistical dead heat, you get another crack at winning some other time.
What do you think?
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Posted Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:09 pm GMT by rlb2252
I should have added that this “not losing” is in reference to cash games.
I understand that in the early stages of tournament style games, “not losing” is an intelligent and coveted strategy, often implemented by players not playing virtually any hands whatsoever until the contest’s middle stages.
Posted Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:36 am GMT by PokerBarney
Not losing is as important to a player as is winning lots.
The great players not only maximise their wins during a hand, but they minimise their losses. This is what gives them a bigger stack and the ability to take more risks, and it shows up as a higher profit margin.
So yes, not losing is the same as winning, since the money a good player saves is the same as the money a worse player loses then has to win back.
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