So I sat 2/5 no limit at the Tampa hard rock casino yesterday and figured I would play some poker. I know I’m a great poker player and like Phil helmuth said if luck wasn’t involved I would win every time. It really is not a game of skill but luck! I hate that TV and everything tells you that it’s a skill game and a sport but it is certainly not. Especially when I go all in with pocket aces and my opponent has pocket 7’s and of course hits the two outer and wins. Not skill. JUST LUCK! Then I get up a couple hundred and pick up K, 10 of spades on the button. The flop comes 10 of hearts, 8, spades, 4 of spades. First position raises and second calls and I just call at this point because I’m feeling great about my hand especially when the King of Diamonds comes on the turn. I know have top two pair with a flush draw. First position raises, second position calls, and I reraise. First position goes all in, second position goes all in and I have no other choice but to go all in as well. First position flips over King 8 two pair, second position flips over a spade flush draw lower than mine. I am dominating the hand and second position hand is dead he cannot win and first position can only win if an 8 comes on the river. Well the river is flipped and it’s an 8. He hit his two outer and wins an over $1200 pot. A pot in which I should have been stacking in front of me get stacked by some idiot from Turkey that doesn’t even know how to play cards that well. He then of course after the hand goes into the I’m the ambassador of poker and starts talking about how he is so good. I hate that the most in poker when someone hits a miracle for a win then afterwards just doesn’t shut up but he talks like he knew what he was doing. I told the guy I was like “hey buddy you’re not good at poker I’m way better then you, I had you dominated in that hand and you hit a miracle river. 2 cards out of the 27 that are left”. So you see my frustration even though your chances of winning at poker are so much greater when you have a 98% chance to win the pot, your opponent still has 2% and trust me those 2% miracle draws hit a lot more then you think. It’s a skill game but it also takes a lot of luck to be successful in poker. I do not recommend it to anyone!
Mark Adamczyk
