Hang on to your money dude

I see this far too often and IDK, it kinda hurts me inside. Trying to evaluate unknown players and villain catches fire. He’s stacking so many chips, you have to consider he’s a good player.

Soon, villain has 2,500+ which is a huge stack at 1/3. He’s been applying tremendous pressure and has become very hard to play against.

Then it’s like villain fell off a cliff. Suddenly he’s attacking the nit sitting with a monster. Then, he starts making ridiculous hero calls as weak as ace high. Long story short, soon that entire stack is gone.

I haven’t really figured out how to exploit this pattern, but I bet you’ve seen it too.

To play poker well, is to be bored. Sometimes it involves folding every hand for several hours. When you get hot, be happy because it doesn’t happen very often. But when you get ahead, don’t fall off a cliff. Keep playing solid poker and start folding a lot if that’s what’s required.

In some ways, I think you should be more cautious when it’s been going well. Ride the streak for sure, but don’t start lowering your standards or you might face disaster. I think losing back everything you won is a disaster. Take some home

Thoughts?