You're a Bunch of Factors

It has seemed throughout my time at the poker table I have had a bit of bad luck playing with, and against AJ.

Alas, in the early hours of this morning my AJ held up twice on the final table to earn a win. I feel the shackles have been broken and I will no longer fold AJ when I turn up this dreaded combination.

We claim poker is not based on luck, but we still all play our 'lucky' hands, and say - That hand always gets me... Funny hey.

Variance is about to put a beatdown on your ass.

Trust me, i remember ace jack losing a lot to AK and AQ, than winning against J10, 67

its the hand that you remember most, nothing more

you dont ever remember the time when u had it and you held against A10.

i am not saying you do, but a lot of people treat AJ as a premium hand like AQ or AK, which it is not. there are SOOOO many times when you are dominated when you hit your ace.

if you play it like A9 and A10, and less like AQ or AK, i guarantee you will play it better

That's not the point I am trying to make. Its the mentality and attitude that there are some hands, no matter how they are played, that you believe they are cursed.

what i am saying is, maybe you believe you are cursed, so you play if differently than you should. then because you play it badly, this reinforces the fact that you think you are cursed

its like those people that say "i always lose with AA"

thats because of 2 reasons, first is that they dont ever fold them, even when the board runs [9h] [10h] [jh] [qh] and they have the 2 black aces, and the second reason is, they only ever remember the times when they lost, not the times when it was boring and they got it in against Aq and held.

what it all comes down to is what Kenny said

" You gotta know when holdem, know when to foldem know..........."

AJ sucks balls i like to fol this hand if i am not rasing. it a rasing or a folding hand not flating with aj ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Luke05(Jamo) wrote:AJ sucks balls i like to fol this hand if i am not rasing. it a rasing or a folding hand not flating with aj ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think this applies to most hands - flatting is usually a bad bad thing imho