Playing From the Blinds
Playing from the blinds has got to be almost as bad. Playing passive is kind of like smoking cigarettes everyday – it will cost you a lot of money and slowly kill you. Playing from the blinds I guess would be like taking a gun and shooting yourself in the face. You can imagine that right – a pretty quick death.
Unless you are sitting on pocket aces I would avoid playing from the blinds. Sure, some players do it, there are strategies for playing out of position with marginal hands (and on a short stack?) but I just prefer to completely avoid that kind of stuff.
When I play poker I want to be very confident I’m going to win. And I’m willing to be patient and wait a little bit for it.
It’s alright if you have fallen into the trap of doing one of these strategies for Texas Hold Em. You probably read it somewhere, or someone told you to do it, so it’s fine – it’s not your fault. Now that you are reading this you are starting to realise that these aren’t the ways to success in poker and you need a really reliable strategy that you can count on.
