Hopefully your lines create lots of spots where you get money in with an edge. The only things you control as a poker player are your lines and your reactions. You can get a set all-in against a gutshot on the flop and still lose 14% of the time. You can get AA all-in preflop against 72 offsuit, and you will still lose 12% of the time. Most hands always have a chance of winning, even if they seem remote at first glance.

Playing consistent poker doesn’t mean you will have the most consistent results in the short term. Poker has never been a game of certainty. The thing you have to remember is that this is what you signed up for! Or you can experience the secret kind of run bad where you flop a set against QQ, but the turn card is a King and now QQ doesn’t pay you off. You can constantly get your money in with a two pair against a flush draw and lose. But the club you really want to be a part of is the club of players that have run bad AND survived to play another day.

If you answered yes to any of those questions, welcome to the 99.99% club! The club of poker players who have experienced a bad run of cards. Have you ever run bad in poker? Have you ever run bad for an extended period of time? Has that run bad ever made you irrate? If you answered no to all of those questions, I’d love to meet you and steal your luckbox.

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