7. Commit this to memory: if you can't beat the other hands, don't join them, fold and live to play another day. The table will always be ready when you are.
I am going to quote from memory, but I remember reading that Mike Caro has said, "money not lost spends the same as money won".
Whenever I offer advice to novices, I always advise folding as a strategy. Winners look for a reason to fold. Losers look for a reason to call. Win money with good hands. Every hand can turn into a winner, but rarely does playing a bad hand turn into a profit. AND, in the long run, playing bad hands will never be profitable. Poker is one long game. It is not one hand. Look for the guys that look for a reason to call. Play them to the max. That is the profitable long term play.
These tips are part of my series on Poker tips, taken from Poker.net. Poker.net has an on-line section with 64 poker tips. Way back 4 and 1/2 decades ago, in Mr. Kirk's 5th grade class, I was taught; to write things out, was one of the best ways to commit to memory. So, rather than read over a list of tips, and forget most, I am going to commit myself to reading one a day, and writing my thoughts about it.
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