playing winning poker is in most cases not that exciting. But it IS satisfying. Not many things you can regularly do are as satisfying as de-stacking somebody.

Let me list all the exciting things I did over a 5 hour session where I won about $800.

I went all in pre flop with AK against a 25BB smallstack (won it)
I went all in pre flop with KK against a big stack (he had KK too)
I made about 20 cont bets (i think i'm ahead on these)
I made one laydown with TPTK+
I spent 20BB+ drawing (to pretty correct odds) twice. I hit once, and
missed once, for a large net gain)
I went all in with AKs on a flush draw + overs flop because
I made one raise bluff with a PP against a suspected cont bet in position with a read on the raiser (won)
I made one river bet bluff when a flush card hit and i was on a straight draw (pulled it off)
I think i looked up one river bluff successfully.

Most of my money was made very mundanely. Like folding bad hands pre flop. Not going after bad draws. Overcharging opponent's draws. As I write this, a fish just went all in for 94BB ($188) with 10.7 against my 10.K (which incidentally I was big blind). I also won nice pots outkicking my opponent's Q3 and 93 (!!) top pairs. Waiting for good cards and playing them correctly.

It's interesting... right now I just played a K9 top pair aggressively but controlled, and folded my opponent... don't know if i was actually ahead or not. Playing multiple tables can help with patience. And there are enough situations where you can do something adventurous in a controlled manner to have fun.




That's it. The other stuff is very