If we were to imagine for a moment what poker heaven would look like it is this: Clean, comfortable tables and chairs, attentive staff offering sumptuous, delicious table food (all on comps, naturally and served by beautiful waitresses), maybe lattes made by a skilled barista, friendly dealers, your best friends seated around you, and of course no bad beats. The river is your best friend. Your draws all come in while your made hands hold up. You would leave every session up several times your buy-in, but would seldom leave as the game never broke down and you never got tired.
On the other hand, poker hell is easy to identify: squeaky chairs, annoying players, rude staff and dealers, every hand a bad beat for you, constant trips to the ATM, bad coffee, nasty food that your comps don't cover, huge rake. The river screws you, always.
Now we come to poker purgatory. In the Catholic religion, it is a place between heaven and hell where souls wait for final disposition. I think that is where we all are now. We go to the poker room and it is comfortable....sort of. The food is o.k., but the really good stuff is out of reach of the poker menu and our comps. Some friends are there, but when you are in a hand with them heads up you never get value out of your big hands, lots of people you don't like or are very annoying are playing and to make matters worse, they chase to the river. Sometimes you win, but often you lose, usually when you can least afford it. Just when you are on a roll, the game breaks down.
Hold it! This is starting to sound like poker hell!!!
1 comment:
Even in poker heaven I think we would need bad beats once in a very great while. Otherwise the game would become boring, don't you think? I agree with you that we are in purgatory for the most part. Oh well.
I will only be playing the Sunday tournament (10 a.m.) this week. Waiting on tax refund to play more live & get hours for freeroll.
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