Watching the sucker jump

It’s funny how when you’re playing at a table with a player or two who is loose and reckless and yet somehow keeps making huge hands and getting paid off, you know that in the long run, he’s going to get broke. So you stay at the table and probably tighten up a bit and wait for the right hand to bust him with, when his luck finally slows down. What sucks is when that hand never comes, and when it does, they happen to show up with an even bigger hand.

Then they leave.

It hurts to watch a donkey keep killing it and then get up while he’s rolling in money, money you know he’ll put right back out there if he sits long enough, but he’s so unused to winning that he knows he better leave so he’ll have money to get drunk with.

Those kind of things are rough to watch, but if it happens in your home game with a new guy, you should probably consider it good.

Let the guy leave with money. Let him go to bed dreaming of how he whooped everyone and spent their money on liquor.

Then he comes back next week confident and hopefully doesn’t hit that string of miracle hands again and ends up buying in 2-3 times because “he knows it’s coming.”

Sometimes you have to invest in a crappy player to turn them into an ATM.

Now help me remember that when myKK loses to 7-4 off.