Willingness

I've come to see that one of the essential qualities of a good poker player is willingness. You must be willing to gamble, plain and simple. When you're willing, you enable the possibility that good things will happen to you. When you're willing, your opponents recognize it and respect you for it; it makes it impossible for them to know when you have a really good hand and when you're bluffing. This increases the likelihood of them calling your bets when you have a really good hand, increasing the value you extract from your won pots.

Of course, there's a difference between being willing to gamble and being foolhardy; you need to be able to hang around long enough for your session-ending, monster hands to arrive. The dynamic tension between being willing to gamble and avoiding being foolhardy will make your stack swing up and down over the course of the session; you don't need to worry as long as you don't hit the felt.

Last night, I went all in on two separate occasions, and won both times. The first time, I was basically forced to go all in by my short stack and the quality of my hand; the second time, I had the nuts.

During current Omaha session you were dealt 22 hands and saw flop:
- 4 out of 4 times while in big blind (100%)
- 4 out of 4 times while in small blind (100%)
- 13 out of 14 times in other positions (92%)
- a total of 21 out of 22 (95%)
Pots won at showdown - 3 of 8 (37%)
Pots won without showdown - 1

delta: $1,150
balance: $1,046,657