On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Valerie Pollard <vpollard@socal.rr.com> wrote:
> Even in live poker those random streaks of good hands would seem to all
> go to a certain seat at the table for a while. Then people would say,
> "Play your rush - play every hand". Not the most sound advice but I
> will say at those time it seemed like you almost could play "every hand"
> when the cards are coming like that in your favor.
Live poker is different than other forms of gambling in this regard.
Not because the cards have memory or that you can actually predict the
length of a rush, but because you are playing against other fallible
human players, and if the other players *perceive* you to be on a
lucky streak, how they react to your play might be different. They
may fold more readily, making bluffs more likely to succeed. Knowing
your current table image can be a useful poker skill.
