Monday, August 17, 2009

Mistakes In Poker: Entitlement

By Aeolus Jirou

Entitlement has been long discussed by philosophers and ordinary people alike. Do you think people receive what they truly deserve? People commit the right actions expecting to be rewarded in the end. Some people do evil things aware that they can be punish for their wicked actions. In a perfect world that's how things supposed to work. But we all know that's how things happen.

Whenever you found a wallet full of money and return it to the owner, you are expecting that you're going to obtain a reward for your honesty. The funny thing is that if you'll do that nowadays, you'll receive a thank you certainly but rewards, doubtful.

At school you grind yourself to study the subject you like and just skim through the subject you don't like much expectant that you'll get high results for your hard work. But it turned out that you got an ace on the subjects you only skimmed and a passing grade for the subjects you burn your candles on.

At work, some employees work hard to achieve promotions and salary raises but we observe that a lot of hard-working people have been ignored on promotions, laid off and been force to low grade their salaries.

What does this mean? It means that, all of us anticipate that we ought to have something for our hard-work but it is feasible that we are going to gain an absolutely different result.

One good example of a poker entitlement would be Phil Hellmuth. He is known for his declaration, "If it wasn't for luck, I guess I'd win them all." This individual deems that having a good game plan give him the right to win. These days he acknowledge that luck has a part in the game but it won't be denied that he still believes that a weak hand will be crushed by a strong one every time.

This reasoning blinds Hellmuth on further factors in poker. One instance of this would be his rant against Adam "Roothlus" Levy during the 2008 WSOP Main Event. In the early hours of the event, both players are deep stacks: Phil has a pair of 9 and he raise the bet, on the other hand, Levy called with QTs. As the hand played out, Phil spiked a set on the turn, but the 9 gave Levy the nut straight; after losing a large pot, Phil slashed into Levy and demean his play. The fact is Levy's the one who played ideally, making the best of his hand. Phil was just so enraged that he starts out with the best hand and still been beaten after he hit a set, that he permitted his logic of entitlement to make him turn blind towards the progress of the game.

Both players have deep stacks, Levy is in position and Phil has a rep as a loose player. He even commented during bet on the final card, "Could I be good enough to play QT like this?" It means that the range of his hand consists of a QT here, but he still called Levy an idiot for playing the very same hand.

If you desire to be a disciplined poker player you must get rid of any sense of privilege you may posses. In playing poker you need to be aware that you must bet your money to the best possible situation and let the chips fall into place. We usually experience that our good hands are defeated and weak plays are rewarded but all things will be balance in the end.

In the poker table, the only thing that you're entitled with is you'll be dealt with cards. Then all the things that will happen afterward will depend on your own choices and fate. But keep in mind that your decisions will be the turning point of your poker career: Fate will just tell you the time that you deserve to win.

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