Staying in a hand when they should fold will cost most players a lot of money in the course of their poker playing life.
Having put your money in the pot, it can be very very difficult to throw your cards in, even when you know you probably should.
The ability to lay down cards that have lost their value will be one of the biggest earning traits of a good poker player. More so than most other advice, the advice to stop chasing will save you more cash than any of the other poker tips you will ever get.
Like I said in an earlier post about paying attention, when you have a premium hand like pocket aces, and you bet it out properly and are up against one or two remaining players, and the flop comes all wrong, with they suited cards or the bones of a high end straight, or trip kings, or any of a number of horrible set ups, the lay down here will save you – and saving is earning – the most money. And of course if you can not lay your hand down, simply because “I’m in now so I have to stay in”, then it will cost you the most money.
You do have to be careful of being bluffed off of a good hand because of a horrible flop, but if you have bet your hand correctly and read the table properly from the beginning then you should know when you are beat, and act accordingly.
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