Well its sunday evening and time to update my blog.  The weekend whizzed on by, not sure why it goes so fast… before you know its sunday evening and you are preparing to start the new week.

I didn’t do much on friday evening, just relaxed at home.  Saturday, I got a few chores done and chilled out… then I went to the casino and played some poker in a cash game.  Nothing special or extraordinary happened during the evening… I came away fairly even… won one big pot, but also lost a few…

At least it wasn’t as bad as this one guy’s poker night… John I think his name was… unfortunately let his ego get in the way of his judgement and take over his poker game.  An hour into the game, he went head to head with some other guy, the rest of us folded and watched them dueling!  John’s three jacks were beaten… it happens in poker, you think you have the nut hand and it turns out someone else has a better hand – thats poker!  Take it on the chest and carry on.

Unfortunately John tried to come back straight away after losing and win his money back.  He lost out on a big pot, but he still had a small stack and if he had just kept his head… stayed patient, he would have been fine.  But no, John wanted to prove, or his ego wanted to prove that he was a pro poker player and he could win.

From then on, he made bad calls and the rest of us took him apart, or took his chips… The moral of the story is: when you lose a hand, keep cool, don’t panic or rush to win your money back on the very next hand.  Stick to your winning poker strategy and whatever you do don’t let the ego take over!!!

Remember poker is a game, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.  Just try and win more than you lose!  And most importantly – Ego’s are not good at playing poker, no matter what they tell you!!!