When Cards go South

[PokerPrincess]

Okay, let's hear it from the throngs. When your cards go sour or south or cold, however you want to call it do you do the same thing? Do you have the patience to wait it out knowing that they will, in all probability, make a turn-around again?

Or do you sit and pout and get fed up with folding because you really haven't had to do much of that in the game up to that point?

Personally, I usually start to play more on another table or open up my solitaire game to keep me occupied till they start heading north, sweeten up or get warm/hot again.

[flopmistress]

That's when it's time to multi-tab;e. You cant play marginal hands just cause that's all your getting and if you sit and get mad at the cards you'll make mistakes. So I open up other games. Have to look for opportunities to steal a pot or two every couple orbits so you don't get blinded out, but basically I just try to wait them out.

[najdoyza]

I rarely multi-table but when the cards are cold I have other things I can do that don't require me to concentrate too much, and I can drop them in a snap if the cards start going my way. One of my favorite things to do is open up Casino Fortune and play Blackjack ot Let Em Ride for dimes. Can't win - or lose - a fortune and when the cards change you just stop and go back to poker.

You have to be patient and just do what you can to keep from being blinded out, bluff a hand or steal a pot if you get the chance - but otherwise, patience pays the rent... So wait it out.

[Sweetness]

Yep, I must say that I have to go along with the majority. Wait it out however long it takes, make sure you have something to keep your mind off the cards until you see a ppQ, pp10, ppA anything that looks good.

Patience definitely is a virtue in this game and actually more so in poker than in most anything else because if you play MTTs there is going to be a dead period with the cards and if you don't know how to amuse yourself you will make deadly mistakes.

[ScootScoot]

I don't know. I think it would depend on my mood, the day, the cycle of the moon, and how cold the cards were. I may stick it out and I may not. How's that for a non-committed?

[The Professor]

Patience is one of the most important skills in poker in my opinion.

Sometimes you'll get cards all the time, other times you will be dealt 7-2 all day long - but no matter what you have to stick with it and be patient.

If you don't you'll just end up losing money.