06-22-04, LearnTexasHoldem:
Forget Your Folded Hands
Example: I was playing with a few friends the other night. I'm on the button. There's a lot of action going around the table before I'm up: a bet and two raises, and everyone who stayed in looked confident. When the action came around to me, I finally looked at my hole and there's two-seven offsuit staring me in the face. Since I have a working brain, I promptly folded.
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I needed a quick break after that hand. After splashing some cold water in my face, I reminded myself that the amount of money I would lose playing beer hands greatly outweighs the amount of money I would make playing them and catching breaks like on this hand. That sort of calmed me down.
There is a very simple way to avoid these reverse bad beats: forget what your hole was after you fold. If you drop out early, take the opportunity to do something productive like watch your opponents play and look for tells. You're out of the hand because staying in would hurt you more often than help you, so your action was rational, even if it turns out that you would have gotten ridiculously lucky and won.
-Mike
New Orleans, LA
Answer: That is the truth. It's easy to drive yourself mad by second guessing your play based on what would have won in each hand.
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