I'm Flooded With Rivulets of Thought

It's been two weeks since I posted. It's not that I don't have anything to talk about or haven't had things to post about, I have just been too busy, too tired or too apathetic. I am not sure, but without such an outlet, my mind gets clogged and that came to a head last night at the poker table. Sometimes you can have great hands and somehow just get beat, outplayed or outflopped. I went from flopping quad aces to dive bombing my chipstack in about 3 hands and eventually pushed at the wrong time with the magically alluring Q-J. I know Q-J is a horrible hand and is dominated by so many other hands, but I had less than 2 and a half big blinds left and made a move hoping to just pick up blinds. Small blind has 10s and big blind has aces. What can you do?

In the last 2 weeks I have discovered that somewhat careless flagrance with chip stacks is an amazing way to win a sit-n-go where the players are either tight or are too new to understand when someone is making a move. The good thing about playing at restaurants and bars is that most of the players fall into the 2nd category, about 10% of the players at most tables fall into the first category. The rest are just donkeys and fish that you have to have the patience and a bucket to wait and catch the chips they dump. Last night was not the night for me to do that, so I ended up being the dumper...not the dumpee in relation to the chips.

However, when you use well timed aggression, you can pick up blinds and antes often enough so that when you have a monster, you will get called and you will get more than just the blinds and limpers. It is something I should have seen a long long time ago, but my tight nature wouldn't allow me to use the "Kill Phil" method to win in such a way. There is also the issue that at certain tables you will get called with any naked ace or king that can be played. Cautious aggression may seem like an oxymoron to most, but it definitely applies in this case.

There is no fixed rule...that's where the challenge comes. Sometimes finding the rule of the game you are in leads you to walking away early...sometimes you are the last man standing. Its action...and isn't that what we do this for anyway?

I will be back soon with thoughts on politics, Brett Favre and the upcoming season of football...like the title says...Rivulets of Thought...