Chuck Blount on poker: When you’re winning big, you never should walk away
Ted Forrest, one of the most feared poker players and proposition gamblers in Las Vegas, once sat at the same 7-card stud table for 72 consecutive hours before calling it quits. Hall of Famer Johnny Moss played in a juicy Dallas game for four consecutive days, and legend has it he made multi-day sessions a frequent practice.
While those examples are extreme, long playing sessions are commonplace and can mean one of two things: Either a player is sunk and desperately trying to get even, or he is sitting in the perfect game with inferior opponents and winning all the money.
I don’t have much to say about the losing scenario other than to reiterate that it’s a terrible idea with an absurdly low chance of success. The Los Angeles Clippers have a better shot at winning an NBA championship.
As for the second scenario, one must learn to love caffeinated beverages because it’s almost as unforgivable to leave a game that you are winning easily as it is to stay when you are losing.
Traditional casino logic doesn’t have a lot of useful application at a poker table …
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Useful poker information:
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
- TAPPED [OUT] - Out of money. Can refer to a player running out of money in the course of a hand, thus still active for the main pot; or can refer to a player who has lost his bankroll and can no longer play.
- DRAW OUT - To catch a card that improves your situation from a losing hand to a winning hand, especially when you beat someone holding a hand that usually figures to win.
- LIVE [CARD] - In Stud, a card probably not held by other players.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
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