Who Is Your Toughest Opponent?

Stop for a moment and visualize the faces of your toughest opponents. What makes them tough? Do they check-raise? Do they put fear in your heart when they bet? Do they have the reputation of being the very best players around? What makes them good players?

May I suggest to you that your toughest opponent is not Bob, The Brick, or Polish Steve? I suggest that your biggest opponent is you, the guy who looks at you in the mirror every single day. The person who deprives you of the most money at the poker table is you.

Now that I have your dander up, your nose open, let me defend my statement. Almost all of us play too many hands. Do you? I would suspect that you would say that you have a good hand-selection process. We all get caught up in the action of the game. We all tend to play marginal hands in marginal situations. We look down at those starting cards and we try to think of reasons to play. What we should do is thinking of reasons not to play the hand. But do we? Hell, no. We love the action. We love the competition. We love to hammer that so and so over there. We love to take chances. We came to gamble!

Let's face it; we have difficulty believing we are not good poker players. Our ego tells us we are good. Since we are good poker players, the decisions we make must, by definition, be good decisions. Elementary, right? Wrong.

I truly believe that poker is such a complicated game involving cards, chips and people that very few are truly accomplished players. Almost all of us have a long way to go. There is so much to this game and it takes a long time and a lot of dedication to become a top player.

POKER IS VERY COMPLEX

Just a few days ago, I was in California playing at a satellite tournament. I saw some absolutely fantastic moves by a couple of players. Because the situation is so dynamic, where every single hand is different from the last, where so many different personality interacting, the possibilities of the same situation happening twice in one lifetime is almost impossible. Every hand the chip count in each hand is different. Each player has a different mind set than the hand before. My point is that there is so much to learn that we must continue to focus on the game in order to become a top player. If we do not consistently focus, we become our toughest opponent.

Some players are their own toughest opponent because they cannot forgive themselves for a bad play. Some players force themselves to play with anger or hatred toward another player. It isn't the other person who is the tough opponent, it is the person who cannot get over a slight or a bad beat.

Some players play too long and lose their sharpness.

Some players insist on playing the big pairs far too long when the board tells them they are beat. Not listening or seeing what is happening turns you into a bad adversary.

These are but a few of the many, many ways we do damage to ourselves. Constant dedication to learning and improvement are the only ways I know to decrease the impact of our own egos.

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