You know it’s really no secret. Everyone knows it.

You need to be able to make the most profitable plays at the most profitable times.

But the problem that I suffer from is letting emotion or chance into the equation. Someone takes a big stack of your cash on hail mary bad beat, that next hand you are betting hard at them with 3rd pair, or pushing in on nothing.

This is where you, loyal readers can begin to become a better poker player than me. I rarely am able to muster the restraint not to react emotionally in a game dominated by statistics. And I realize it.

I suppose that makes a very large fool.