Ethics

I Hate Poker

By Ed Brayton

I have been on the worst run at poker that I've ever experienced in my life for the last three weeks. It's been absolutely unreal. I'm inventing new ways to lose. I generally have a very objective view of my skill as a poker player. I don't think I'm better than I am. I don't pretend that I could play the game professionally because I couldn't. I know that I'm a good amateur cash game player and that's all I am and all I will ever be. When I've had losing streaks in the past, I'm honest enough with myself to know when it's because I've been playing badly and when I've just been unlucky. And lately I've been on the worst streak of luck I've ever seen, hand after hand where there's no other way it could be played, the money's going in and I'm gonna lose. A few examples.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).